obituaries

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Merv Adelson, a film and television producer whose company Lorimar made "The Waltons" and "Dallas" and a former husband to televisi...

LONDON (AP) — Judy Carne, a star of the U.S. comedy show "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," has died in a British hospital. She was 76. She was famous for p...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Ruth Newman was just child living on an outlying ranch when the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 struck, but her memory of ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It's hard enough to redefine a genre once in a career, but horror virtuoso Wes Craven managed to do it twice. The prolific writer-d...

NEW YORK (AP) — There was the blind man who had the disastrous experience of regaining his sight. The surgeon who developed a sudden passion for music...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who nearly died while helping lead the "Bloody Sunday" civil rights march in ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A high-level Afghan delegation arrived in Pakistan on Thursday to discuss security cooperation and peace efforts after Afghanistan's ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Elvis Presley "Forever" stamp is going on sale shortly at post offices nationwide. Priscilla Presley, ex-wife of the King of...

ATLANTA (AP) — R&B singer Bobby Brown said Monday that his daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, was "an angel" and that the family must find a way to honor...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angelina Jolie is teaming up with Netflix to direct an adaptation of "First they Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers...

NEW YORK (AP) — Few minds were as playful and as serious as E.L. Doctorow's. Conjurer of old-time gangsters and ragtime stars. Commentator on wars and...

CAIRO (AP) — In "Lawrence of Arabia," Omar Sharif first emerges as speck in distance in the shimmering desert sand. He draws closer, a black-robed fig...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — For nearly a century, an urn containing the ashes of a Civil War-era Medal of Honor recipient remained in an unmarked grave with othe...

VERLOT, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say dangerous conditions are making it difficult to recover the body of a 34-year-old woman who died when ice caves p...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Diana Douglas, the first wife of Kirk Douglas and mother of Michael Douglas, died Saturday in Los Angeles. She was 92. Douglas died...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Seventy years ago, representatives from 50 war-weary countries gathered in San Francisco to create an international organization ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Patrick Macnee, star of the 1960s TV series "The Avengers," has died. He was 93. His son Rupert said in a statement that Patrick Ma...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — From the swelling-sea songs of "Titanic" to the space symphonies of "Apollo 13" to the bagpipes of "Braveheart," James Horner's sin...

NEW YORK (AP) — Dick Van Patten, the genial, round-faced comic actor who appeared on Broadway as a child, starred on TV in its infancy and then, in mi...

NEW YORK (AP) — Gunther Schuller, a horn player, educator and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who was the leading proponent of the Third Stream moveme...