Tech company CEO, a Lehigh University grad, dies in shocking stage fall in...
Sanjay Shah, a Lehigh University graduate and CEO of a Chicago area tech firm died in a shocking fall in front of hundreds of attendees during the company’s 25th anniversary celebration Thursday at a...
View ArticleCharles Osgood, CBS host on TV and radio and network’s poet-in-residence,...
By MARK KENNEDY (AP Entertainment Writer) NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Osgood, a five-time Emmy Award-winning journalist who anchored “CBS Sunday Morning” for more than two decades, hosted the long-running...
View ArticleCarl Weathers, linebacker-turned-actor who starred in ‘Rocky’ movies and ‘The...
By MARK KENNEDY (AP Entertainment Writer) NEW YORK (AP) — Carl Weathers, a former NFL linebacker who became a Hollywood action movie and comedy star, playing nemesis-turned-ally Apollo Creed in the...
View ArticleHumorously morose comedian Richard Lewis, who recently starred on ‘Curb Your...
By MARK KENNEDY (AP Entertainment Writer) NEW YORK (AP) — Richard Lewis, an acclaimed comedian known for exploring his neuroses in frantic, stream-of-consciousness diatribes while dressed in all-black,...
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‘The lifeblood of the community’: States invest to save rural grocery stores
Kevin Hardy | Stateline.org (TNS) EMERSON, Neb. — Corliss Hassler rushes in the front door of Post 60 Market and heads straight for the produce case. “I’m back,” she announces. It’s around lunchtime,...
View ArticleSteve Lawrence, singer, entertainer and half of popular stage duo Steve &...
By MARK KENNEDY (AP Entertainment Writer) NEW YORK (AP) — Steve Lawrence, a singer and top stage act who as a solo performer and in tandem with his wife Eydie Gorme kept Tin Pan Alley alive during the...
View Article‘Happy Gilmore’ actor Joe Flaherty dead at 82; also starred in ‘SCTV’
Associated Press TORONTO — Comedian Joe Flaherty, a founding member of the Canadian sketch series “SCTV,” has died. He was 82. His daughter Gudrun said Tuesday that Flaherty died Monday following a...
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Harry Price, Hill School lacrosse coaching legend, quizmaster and civic...
POTTSTOWN — Harry L. Price, the revered faculty member, legendary Hill School boys’ lacrosse coach, and civic leader, died Wednesday. He was 86. Price put The Hill School boys’ lacrosse program on the...
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Richard Redner, who helped expand Redner’s supermarket chain, dies at 73
Richard E. “Dick” Redner, 73, chairman and past president of Redner’s Markets, died Thursday in Reading, the company announced Friday. He was the son of company founder Earl Redner, beginning his...
View ArticleFirefighter’s negative obituary on his father pulled off internet. Son: ‘It...
A scathing obituary written by a Connecticut firefighter about his late dad has been abruptly removed from the internet, but that’s OK with the writer, he said, because in the 24 hours it was online,...
View ArticleDr. Cyril Wecht, celebrity pathologist who argued more than 1 shooter killed...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Dr. Cyril Wecht, a pathologist and attorney whose biting cynicism and controversial positions on high-profile deaths such as President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination caught the...
View ArticleWillie Mays, the Giants’ electrifying ‘Say Hey Kid,’ dies at 93
By HILLEL ITALIE (AP National Writer) Willie Mays, the electrifying “Say Hey Kid” whose singular combination of talent, drive and exuberance made him one of baseball’s greatest and most beloved...
View ArticleDonald Sutherland, the towering actor whose career spanned ‘M.A.S.H.’ to...
By JAKE COYLE (AP Film Writer) NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Sutherland, the Canadian actor whose wry, arrestingly off-kilter screen presence spanned more than half a century of films from “M.A.S.H.” to “The...
View ArticleDr. Ruth Westheimer, America’s diminutive and pioneering sex therapist, dies...
By MARK KENNEDY NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the diminutive sex therapist who became a pop icon, media star and best-selling author through her frank talk about once-taboo bedroom topics, has...
View ArticleFormer Fox News host Lou Dobbs dead at 78
Longtime conservative commentator Lou Dobbs has died at age 78, former President Donald Trump announced on social media Thursday. “The Great Lou Dobbs has just passed away — A friend, and truly...
View ArticleAbdul ‘Duke’ Fakir, last of the original Four Tops, is dead at 88
By HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the last surviving original member of the beloved Motown group the Four Tops that was known for such hits as “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” and...
View ArticlePro wrestling legend Sid Eudy dies at 63
By Kaitlyn Huamani Sidney Raymond Eudy, a professional wrestler known as Sid Vicious who was known for his intense persona and imposing stature, has died, his son announced Monday. He was 63. Gunnar...
View ArticleSouth Philly’s James Darren, ‘Gidget’ teen idol, singer and director, dies
By BOB THOMAS LOS ANGELES — James Darren, a teen idol who helped ignite the 1960s surfing craze as a charismatic beach boy paired off with Sandra Dee in the hit film “Gidget,” died Monday at 88. Darren...
View ArticleJames Earl Jones, acclaimed actor and voice of Darth Vader, has died
By MARK KENNEDY NEW YORK (AP) — James Earl Jones, who overcame racial prejudice and a severe stutter to become a celebrated icon of stage and screen — eventually lending his deep, commanding voice to...
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Kathryn Crosby, actor and widow of famed singer and Oscar-winning actor Bing...
By Beth HarrisThe Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Kathryn Crosby, who appeared in such movies as “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad”, “Anatomy of a Murder,” and “Operation Mad Ball” before marrying famed singer...
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