Jackie Cain dies at 86; part of the jazz duo Jackie and Roy
The piano player at a Chicago club called Jump Town wasn’t thrilled about letting the pretty blonde vocalist from Milwaukee do a few numbers. “Nah, I don’t like to play….
The piano player at a Chicago club called Jump Town wasn’t thrilled about letting the pretty blonde vocalist from Milwaukee do a few numbers. “Nah, I don’t like to play….
Jean Norris overheard a comment by a blind woman in 1959 that broke her heart. The woman said she couldn’t participate in one of the joys of parenting: bedtime reading…..
Lewis L. Millett, a retired Army colonel and veteran of three wars who received a Medal of Honor for leading a bayonet charge up a heavily defended hill during the….
Reporting from Dallas — Actress Dorothy Malone, who won hearts of 1960s television viewers as the long-suffering mother in the nighttime soap “Peyton Place,” died Friday in her hometown of Dallas….
In 1969 Col. Robert Rheault landed a long-coveted assignment in Vietnam: commanding the Green Berets, the daring U.S. Special Forces group championed by President Kennedy and glorified by John Wayne…..
He was known as Dr. Death, a Michigan physician who helped his patients kill themselves. In doing so, Jack Kevorkian inflamed a nationwide debate in the 1990s over a terminally….
Alan Ladd Jr., an Oscar-winning producer and former studio boss who, as a top executive at 20th Century Fox in the 1970s, was best known for greenlighting George Lucas’ landmark….
Anthony Tarracino, known to one and all as Capt. Tony, spent two years as mayor of Key West, Fla., and 60 years as one of the most colorful characters in….
Barbara Robinson, a children’s author who spun an endearing holiday tale of six rowdy siblings who take over a church pageant and learn to celebrate Christmas, died July 9 at….
John D. Olmsted, a naturalist who led efforts to preserve Northern California nature areas, open space and trails, died of liver cancer March 8 at his home in Nevada City,….