Etan Patz: Rest in Peace (age 6)

From William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection:

Arrest in Etan Patz murder

A bittersweet update to my prior post about Etan Patz.

Who knows if this is the real killer. I guess we’ll find out as more evidence comes out.

Over at Outside the Beltway, comes the sad, and somewhat shocking news of the death of Kim Joyner, James’ wife.

Stop by and leave a note.

Christina-Taylor Green, from Stephanie Innes, Arizona Daily Star:

Aspiring politician Christina-Taylor Green was born in the midst of tragedy on Sept. 11, 2001, and died Saturday morning while trying to meet Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

The strong-willed 9-year-old third-grader

For a fitting tribute to the now departed Senator Robert “Sheets”  Byrd, late of West Virginia, a cite Michelle Malkin 2001 article in Capitalism magazine, via Ed Dristoll,  Pajamas Media:

The ex-Klansman’s admirers praise his historical knowledge, mastery of

From Sky News:

Celebrites and friends have been paying tribute to actor Gary Coleman who has died after suffering a brain haemorrhage.

The former star of 70s sitcom Diff’rent Strokes was reportedly treated in hospital for a serious head injury

From the REELZ website:

Acclaimed actor and director Dennis Hopper died Saturday at 74 after a long struggle with prostrate cancer. Having starred in more than 100 movies, Hopper is perhaps best known for his roles in Apocalypse Now,

The Lady or the Tiger II, or oh what a tangled web you weave when first you practice to deceive.   Trying get out from under the Joe Sestak mess, David Axelrod just keeps digging.    Now Axelrod is accusing Sestak

Unanimous finding of the Senate Intelligence Committee:

The Senate Intelligence Committee found 14 intelligence failures leading up to the attempted Christmas Day attack aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 over Detroit, according to an unclassified report released today.

Link.

Dixie Cater, perhaps best know for her role in the TV Sitcom, “Designing Women” has died.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actress Dixie Carter, who played an outspoken liberal on the sitcom “Designing Women” and received an Emmy nomination for a

Fess Parker has died.

He was more than a bit of an American Icon, who started a whole wave of coonskin caps and buckskin outfits with his mid-50’s TV portrayal of Davy Crockett, and later, Daniel Boone.

Parker’s been living

General Alexander M. Haig, United State Army, died today at age 85,  from Mark Feeney, Boston Globe:

Alexander M. Haig Jr., who as secretary of state declared “I’m in control here” when Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981, and

A local legend, Anthony Pontillo, as in Pontillo’s Pizza, has passed, from the Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY):

When Anthony Pontillo and two of his brothers started the first of the family’s pizzerias in Batavia in 1947, few locals knew

The reprobate and former Marine, John Murtha,  has assumed room temperature, Associated Press:

Murtha’s criticism of the Iraq war intensified in 2006, when he accused Marines of murdering Iraqi civilians “in cold blood” at Haditha, Iraq, after one Marine

Thoughts on J.D. Salinger,  Catcher in the Rye, from Pat Austin, And so it goes in Shreveport:

J. D. Salinger was not my favorite author ever, but I’m sorry he has died. I teach Catcher in the

The LA Times is reporting:

Art Clokey, the creator of the whimsical clay figure Gumby, died in his sleep Friday at his home in Los Osos, Calif., after battling repeated bladder infections, his son Joseph said. He was 88.

Clokey