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WWII Fighter Pilot Flew Under Eiffel Tower’s Arches Pursuing German Aircraft
ROANOKE, Va. (AP) – World War II fighter pilot William Overstreet Jr., who gained fame for flying beneath the Eiffel Tower’s arches in pursuit of a German aircraft, has died. He was 92. According to...
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Catholic Priest Was Censured By Vatican For Ministry To Gays
BALTIMORE (AP) – A Roman Catholic priest who was censured by the Vatican for his ministry to gays and lesbians has died. The Rev. Robert Nugent, a co-founder of New Ways Ministry, had been suffering...
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Conservative Radio Host Bob Grant Set Stage For Hannity, Limbaugh
NEW YORK (AP) – Longtime conservative radio host Bob Grant, whose combative style became the template for broadcasters such as Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, has died at age 84. Grant’s death on...
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Emily Dickerson Was Last Monolingual Speaker Of Chickasaw Language
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Emily Johnson Dickerson, the last remaining monolingual speaker of the Native American language of Chickasaw, has died. She was 93. The Chickasaw Nation said Friday that Dickerson...
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George Goodman Hosted ‘Adam Smith’s Money World’ On PBS
NEW YORK (AP) – George Goodman, a journalist, business author and award-winning television host who under the pseudonym “Adam Smith” made economics accessible to millions of people, died Friday at age...
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Phil Everly Was Half Of Pioneer Rock Duo The Everly Brothers
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Phil Everly, who formed an influential harmony duo with his brother, Don, that touched the hearts and sparked the imaginations of rock ‘n’ roll singers for decades, including the...
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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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Ray Price, 87, Popularized 4/4 Shuffle Beat Popular On Honky-Tonk Jukeboxes
DALLAS (AP) – Good friends like Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard got more credit for their contrary ways and trend-setting ideas, but it was Ray Price who set the precedent for change in country music...
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Radio Host Who Predicted World’s End Dies
OAKLAND (CBS Sacramento) – Harold Camping, the radio preacher who predicted the world would end in 2011, has died at age 91, according to the Family Radio Network. He suffered a fall in his home on...
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‘Prizzi’s Honor’ Actor Joseph Ruskin Dead At 89
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Film, television and stage actor Joseph Ruskin has died of natural causes at the age of 89. Ruskin garnered 124 television credits, including “Mission: Impossible” and “Star Trek,”...
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James Avery, Uncle Phil on ‘Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,’ dead at 68
NEW YORK (AP) – James Avery, the bulky character actor who laid down the law at home and on the job as the Honorable Philip Banks in “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” has died. Avery’s publicist, Cynthia...
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Car In Paul Walker Crash May Have Been Going 100 MPH
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A coroner’s report says the Porsche carrying “Fast & Furious” star Paul Walker may have been going 100 mph or more before it crashed, killing both Walker and the driver. The...
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