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Larry Mann Was Voice Of Yukon Cornelius In ‘Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer’
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Larry D. Mann, who voiced Yukon Cornelius in the animated Christmas favorite “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” has died. He was 91. His son, Richard Mann, says the actor died of...
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Saul Zaentz Produced ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’‘The English Patient’
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Saul Zaentz, a music producer whose second career as a filmmaker brought him best-picture Academy Awards for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” ”Amadeus” and “The English Patient,”...
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Jerry Coleman Was Hall Of Fame Padres Broadcaster, Marine Corps Pilot
SAN DIEGO (AP) – Hall of Fame broadcaster Jerry Coleman, a former second baseman for the New York Yankees who interrupted his pro career to fly as a Marine Corps pilot in World War II and Korea, died...
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Actress Carmen Zapata Started Foundation To Promote Hispanic Writers
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Emmy-nominated actress Carmen Zapata, who started a foundation to promote Hispanic writers because jobs were so scarce, has died of heart problems, colleagues say. She was 86. Zapata...
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Dale Mortensen Shared 2010 Nobel Economics Prize For Unemployment Work
EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) – Nobel laureate and longtime Northwestern University economics professor Dale Mortensen has died. Mortensen shared the Nobel economics prize with two other Americans in 2010 for...
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Poet-Playwright Amiri Baraka Extended Civil Rights Debate To Art World
miri Baraka, the militant man of letters and tireless agitator whose blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticism made him a provocative and groundbreaking force in American culture, has died....
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Franklin McCain Sparked Nonviolent Sit-ins By Occupying Lunch Counter
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – Franklin McCain, who helped spark a movement of nonviolent sit-in protests across the South by occupying a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in 1960, has died, his son said...
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Larry Speakes Spent 6 Years As President Ronald Reagan’s Spokesman
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Larry Speakes, who spent six years as acting press secretary for President Ronald Reagan, died Friday in his native Mississippi. He was 74. Speakes died at home in Cleveland,...
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Former Marlboro Man Eric Lawson Dies From Smoking-Related Disease
LOS ANGELES (AP) – When it came to portraying the rugged western outdoorsman who helped transform a pack of filtered cigarettes into the world’s most popular brand, Marlboro Man Eric Lawson was the...
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Former First Lady Nancy Reagan Dies at 94
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Former first lady Nancy Reagan has died at 94 in Bel-Air, California. Assistant Allison Borio says Mrs. Reagan died Sunday at her home of congestive heart failure. Her marriage to...
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Dead Man’s Wife, Girlfriend Place Obituary In Same Newspaper
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – Two versions of a New Jersey man’s obituary have appeared together in a newspaper – one saying he’s survived by his wife, and the other saying he’s survived by his...
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Report: Actor Martin Landau Dies At 89
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Martin Landau, the chameleon-like actor who gained fame as the crafty master of disguise in the 1960s TV show “Mission: Impossible,” then capped a long and versatile career with an...
View Article‘Beetle Bailey’ Cartoonist Mort Walker Dies At 94
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Comic strip artist Mort Walker, a World War II veteran who satirized the Army and tickled millions of newspaper readers with the antics of the lazy private “Beetle Bailey,” died...
View ArticlePatricia Morison, Broadway And Hollywood star, Dies At 103
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Patricia Morison, who originated the role of an overemotional diva in the Broadway musical “Kiss Me, Kate,” starred on stage opposite Yul Brynner in “The King and I” and appeared in...
View Article‘World Is A Better Place Without Her’: Woman’s Obituary Stuns Readers
REDWOOD FALLS, MN (CBS Local) – A mother’s obituary in a Minnesota newspaper took an ugly turn when the writer chose to air the woman’s dirty laundry after her death. The five-paragraph memorial to...
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5-Year-Old Dies From Cancer, But Not Before Preparing His Own Obituary
(CNN) — “My name is: Garrett Michael Boofias My birthday is: I am 5 years old My address is: I am a Bulldog! My favorite color is: Blue….and Red and Black and Green … ” These lines mark the beginning...
View ArticleFormer Raiders Coach Tony Sparano Dead At 56
MIAMI (AP) — Tony Sparano once beat Bill Belichick with the single wing, but wasn’t as old as that made him sound. Sparano was only 56 when he died unexpectedly Sunday. The Minnesota Vikings announced...
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‘Mama’s Family’ Actor Ken Berry Dies At 85
(CNN) — Actor Ken Berry, known for his roles in American TV comedies such as “F Troop” and “Mama’s Family,” died Saturday, according to a hospital spokesperson. Berry, 85, died at Providence St. Joseph...
View ArticleObituary: Nugget Markets Chairman
WOODLAND (CBS13) — The man behind Woodland-based Nugget Markets has passed away. According to his family, Eugene (Gene) Stille passed away peacefully in his sleep earlier this month. Stille was...
View Article‘Saved By The Bell’ Actor Dustin Diamond Dies Following Cancer Diagnosis
Actor Dustin Diamond, best known for his role as lovable geek “Screech” on TV’s “Saved By The Bell”, has died, according to reports.
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