Judith Keating was a lawyer and constitutional expert who spent several decades as a senior civil servant in New Brunswick, including as a legal adviser to the premier. She was also the first woman to be the deputy minister of…
Travis, the pro wrestler Paul Orndorff, son, announced his father’s death on social media on Monday, July 12, 2021. He wrote, “It is with great sadness that I announce the passing of my father, Paul Parlette Orndorff Jr. He is…
Van Heflin, the first Black quarterback to consistently start for Vanderbilt, died Friday after suffering a heart attack. Vanderbilt athletic director Candice Lee made the announced Heflin’s death on Twitter. “Van was Vanderbilt’s first Black quarterback to start, breaking the…
Patrick John became the first Prime Minister of Dominica on 3 November 1978 when the country was granted independence from Britain. Patrick Roland John was born on 7 January 1938 and 6 July 2021. Prior is coming premier, then prime minister Patrick John…
Robert Downey Sr., the accomplished countercultural filmmaker, actor, and father of superstar Robert Downey Jr., has died. He was 85.Downey Jr. wrote on Instagram that his father died late Tuesday in his sleep at home in New York. He had…
Donald Rumsfeld, the acerbic architect of the Iraq war and a master Washington power player who served as US secretary of defense for two presidents, has died at the age of 88. The pugnacious businessman, bureaucrat, and former lawmaker helped…
Rabbi Reuven Bulka died Sunday morning in New York City, where he had moved to spend time with his five children after being diagnosed with advanced-stage pancreatic and liver cancer in January. Bulka was the Rabbi, and then rabbi emeritus,…
John Langley died on Saturday of an apparent heart attack in Baja, Mexico; his representatives told Variety. According to the outlet, Langley was competing in the Coast to Coast Ensenada-San Felipe 250 off-road race. TMZ adds that his son Zak was…
VANCOUVER — Jill St. Louis, a former Vancouver bureau chief at The Canadian Press who thrived in a fast-breaking news environment and was a friend to anything with four legs, has died after a battle with metastatic lung cancer. She…
At the height of the AIDS epidemic, she started God’s Love We Deliver, a charity that brought hot meals to people who were too ill to cook. Ganga Stone, who survived on odd jobs in Manhattan until she discovered that…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP news): Mudcat Grant (Jim “Mudcat” Grant), the first Black 20-game winner in the American League and a key part of Minnesota’s first World Series team in 1965, has died. He was 85. The Twins announced Grant’s death Saturday…
The T.V. actor Robert Hogan appeared in shows ranging from “All My Children” to “The Wire” in a career spanning six decades. He died on May 27 at his coastal Maine home, his family announced in The New York Times. The cause…
