WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Luther Ingram, the soul singer who seduced audiences with his hit “(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right,” has died of a heart attack at age 69, his family said on Wednesday.
Ingram,
ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) – John Backus — whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s — paved the way for modern software — has died. He was 82.
If you use a computer, you owe this man a
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — AP – Former commissioner Bowie Kuhn, who lorded over baseball during 15 tumultuous years that saw players gain free agency and start the spiral of multimillion-dollar salaries, died Thursday. He was 80.
Yeah, gee, there’s
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ATKINSON, N.H. —AP- Brad Delp, the lead singer for the band Boston, was found dead Friday in his home in southern New Hampshire. He was 55. Atkinson police responded to a call for help at 1:20 p.m. and found Delp
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LONDON (AP) _ John Inman, the actor best known for his role in the British television series “Are You Being Served?,” died Thursday, his manager said.
Inman, 71, died at St. Mary’s Hospital in London after a long illness, said
BERKELEY, Calif. —TELEGRAM.COM- Ernest Gallo, who parlayed $5,900 and a wine recipe from a public library into the world’s largest winemaking empire, died yesterday at his home in Modesto. He was 97. “He passed away peacefully this afternoon surrounded by
ST. LOUIS —AP- Thomas F. Eagleton, a three-term Democratic senator from Missouri who resigned as George McGovern’s vice presidential nominee in 1972 after it was revealed he had been hospitalized for depression, died Sunday in St. Louis, said a spokeswoman
NEW YORK (AP) -CNN- Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Kennedy insider who helped define mainstream liberalism during the Cold War and remained an eminent public thinker into the 21st century, has died, his son said. He
“His neck was completely snapped.”
So was decribed one Wagner Segura, late of Costa Rica. A few lessons for life, don’t piss into the wind, don’t drink warm beer and don’t mess with a Marine. A lesson Segura failed
The Timesonline(UK) reports the death of Zilla Huma Usman, 35, of Parkistan. murdered for not wearing a veil:
A Pakistani minister and woman’s activist has been shot dead by an Islamic extremist for refusing to wear the veil.
Zilla
I should have noted this the other day…. Charlie Norwood has passed on. He was 65.
Words, words, words, all I ever hear is words and recenlly far too many words about Amanda Marcotte.
Lane Hudson, on the Puffington Post writes, “Right-Wing Attack Puts Bloggers’ Lives in Danger:”
The ramifications of Bill Donohue and
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Reality star Anna Nicole Smith died Thursday after collapsing at a South Florida hotel, one of her lawyers said.
Smith, 39, did not respond to CPR, and her boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, was with her
A respectful note is made of this posting from over the weekend, on the AP wires:
VIENNA, Austria (AP) _ Kurt Schubert, the founder of Austria’s first Jewish museum after World War II, died Sunday. He was 83.
The Austrian
AUSTIN, Texas -AP- Best-selling author and columnist Molly Ivins, the sharp-witted liberal who skewered the political establishment and referred to President Bush as “Shrub,” died Wednesday after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 62.
David Pasztor, managing editor
