Fred Rogers, who gently invited millions of children to be his neighbor as host of the public television show “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” for more than 30 years, died of cancer early Thursday. He was 74. … Read full obituary
Many thoughts and prayers are with rock band Great White’s guitarist, 31-year-old Ty Longley. He is among the dead from the fire that swept through the music club The Station in Rhode Island last week. … Read full obituary
The sister of television talk show host Oprah Winfrey was found dead in her residence Wednesday morning, police said today. The body of Patricia Lloyd, 43, was found inside her home by her husband, Kenny, at about 5:25 a.m. Wednesday…Read full story
…but there’s a much more interesting story here:
Radio show host killed; husband arrested
The host of St. Louis radio’s top-rated morning news show was found shot to death in her home, and her husband was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder. …
Country singer Johnny PayCheck, the hard-drinking hell-raiser best known for his 1977 working man’s anthem “Take This Job and Shove It,” has died at 64. … Read full obituary
JERUSALEM (AP) — Isser Harel, an Israeli spy-master who directed the capture of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann in 1960, died Tuesday, hospital officials said. He was 91. … Read full obituary
Eleanor “Sis” Daley, the 95-year-old matriarch of a Chicago family that produced two mayors, a Cabinet secretary and a Cook County Board commissioner but was beloved in her own right, died Sunday evening at her Bridgeport home. … Read full obituary
Johnny Longden, the British-born jockey who rode 6,032 winners in a racing career that covered nearly 40 years, including a sweep of the 1943 Triple Crown aboard Count Fleet, died yesterday in Banning, Calif. It was his 96th birthday. … Read full obituary
Stacy Keach Sr., father of actors Stacy and James Keach and an accomplished character actor in his own right, died Thursday of complications of congestive heart failure. He was 88. … Read full obituary
Clark MacGregor, a former Minnesota congressman who was President Richard Nixon’s counsel for congressional relations at the time of the Watergate break-in, died of respiratory failure Monday in Pompano Beach, Fla. He was 80. … Read full obituary
Walter L. Pforzheimer, 88, a lawyer who was the first legislative counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency and a bibliophile who was the first curator of its Historical Intelligence Collection, died Feb. 10 at his home in Washington. … Read full obituary
Ronald L. Ziegler, the youngest and perhaps most maligned White House press secretary in history, died Monday at a Coronado hospital, three decades after the Watergate scandal ended the presidency of Richard Nixon. … Read full obituary
A singer who first had hits in the sixties has died of a heart attack in a Surrey car park. Malcolm Roberts, 58, was found collapsed at the wheel of his car in the car park of council offices in Addlestone, near Chertsey, on Friday night. … Read full obituary
Peter Shaw, a retired talent agent, studio executive and a co-producer of the long-running television series “Murder, She Wrote” starring his wife, Angela Lansbury, died last Wednesday at the couple’s home in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles. He was 84. … Read full obituary
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame producer Phil Spector, whose revolutionary techniques changed the sound of pop music in the 1960s, was booked for investigation of murder Monday in the shooting death of a woman at a hilltop mansion, deputies said. … Read full story
Kalpana Chawla, who is feared to have perished in the Columbia space shuttle mishap along with six others, had done India proud when she embarked on her first space mission on November 19, 1997. … Read full obituary
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA declared an emergency after losing communication with space shuttle Columbia as the ship soared over Texas several minutes before its expected landing time Saturday morning. … Read full story
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