Najai (Nitro) Turpin, 23, was one of 16 boxers chosen for The Contender, an NBC reality show featuring Sylvester Stallone as a co-host. …
But three weeks before his prime-time debut, on the morning of Valentine’s Day, Turpin parked his car near Chapple’s house and shot a bullet into his head. … Read full obituary
Uli Derickson, a flight attendant who displayed remarkable courage while dealing with terrorists threatening passengers aboard a hijacked international flight in 1985, has died. She was 60. … Read full obituary
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Former punter Reggie Roby, a 16-year NFL veteran and three-time Pro Bowl selection, died Tuesday after being found unconscious at home by his wife. He was 43. … Read full obituary
John Raitt, 88, one of the enduring stars of the American musical stage whose powerful presence and rich baritone first dazzled Broadway 60 years ago in “Carousel,” died of pneumonia yesterday in Pacific Palisades, Calif. … Read full obituary
Sandra Dee, the actress who became an icon for a generation of teenagers in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, died today at Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, Calif. She was 63. … Read full obituary
JERUSALEM — The Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, this week brought home to her final rest one of its legendary female operatives, Sylvia Raphael. …
Her story reads like . . . well, like a spy novel. … Read full obituary
Dick Weber, perhaps the greatest bowler ever and for more than a half-century an international ambassador for the sport, died Monday at his home in Florissant, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis. He was 75. … Read full obituary
Playwright Arthur Miller, the creator of The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, has died at the age of 89. …
He was one of the most significant American writers of the 20th Century, whose fame was further magnified by his short-lived marriage to Marilyn Monroe. … Read full obituary
TBILISI, Feb 4 (AFP) — An aide to Georgian prime minister Zurab Zhvania, who died apparently after breathing toxic fumes leaked by a faulty heater, committed suicide late Friday, an interior ministry spokesman said.
The aide, 32-year-old Georgi Khelashvili, shot himself with a gun in his Tbilisi apartment… Read full story
Tony Award-nominated actor-writer Ossie Davis, an icon of 20th century African-American theatre, was found dead Feb. 4 in his hotel room in Miami, where he was filming a movie, according to the Associated Press.
Mr. Davis was 87, and was often mentioned in the same breath with his wife, actress Ruby Dee, who survives him. … Read full obituary
BERLIN (AP) — Max Schmeling wanted to be a heavyweight champion, not a symbol of Nazi supremacy.
Though he thrilled Germany by knocking out Joe Louis, there was another side to the fighter that Hitler tried to portray as an Aryan Superman. … Read full obituary
LOS ANGELES (AP) — John Vernon, a stage-trained character actor who played cunning villains in film and TV and made his comedy mark as Dean Wormer in National Lampoon’s Animal House, has died. He was 72. … Read full obituary
JR’s note: Especially in light on the suspected Yuschenko dioxin poisoning, doesn’t this sound a tad fishy?
TBILISI, Georgia — Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, who helped lead the revolution that toppled the corruption-tainted regime of Eduard Shevardnadze, was killed Thursday by an apparent natural gas leak, the ex-Soviet republic’s interior minister said. …
Zhvania’s host, Zurab Usupov, deputy governor of Georgia’s Kvemo-Kartli region, also died. … Read full story
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