Rebecca Luker’s death was announced by her husband, veteran Broadway actor Danny Burstein, who said in a statement, “our family is devastated. I have no words at this moment because I’m numb.” Luker went public in 2020, saying she had…
OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. — Initial shipments of the second COVID-19 vaccine authorized in the U.S. left a distribution center Sunday, a desperately needed boost as the nation works to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control. The trucks left the factory…
The confirmed United States death toll from coronavirus has topped 250,000, the highest figure of any country in the world. The grim milestone was confirmed by Baltimore’sBaltimore’s Johns Hopkins University, which collates worldwide data on Covid-19 fatalities and cases, on…
Scott Marshall Smith, the screenwriter whose credits included the Robert De Niro films Men of Honor and The Score, has died, his family said Tuesday. He was 62. Smith was finishing work on his latest movie, the psychological thriller Wasatch when he suffered a stroke.…
Charley Pride, a 2000 inductee in the Country Music Hall of Fame and a three-time Grammy winner, Pride, was not the first country performer to cross racial lines: Harmonica player Deford Bailey was an early featured artist on the Grand…
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Ray Perkins, the former Alabama receiver which replaced Bear Bryant as Crimson Tide’s coach and started the transition with the New York Giants, led to two Super Bowl titles, died Wednesday in Tuscaloosa. He was 79. The…
Terry D. Porter, Writer’s Guild of America agent and founder of The Terry Porter Agency, died Monday, December 7, of heart failure in Sun City West, AZ. His wife, Claire Hutchinson, announced Terry D Porter’s death. Since 1990, Porter was…
Former MVP Dick Allen, one of baseball’s most feared hitters in the late 1960s and a star in Philadelphia and Chicago, died Monday at his home in Wampum, Pennsylvania, his family announced on Twitter. A seven-time All-Star, Allen was dominant…
Natalie Desselle Reid was an American actress who performed in several films, including Def Jam’s How to Be a Player and Cinderella. She also acted in the television series Built to Last and For Your Love, and for three seasons, she played Janie Egins on Eve. Natalie Desselle Reid died…
LOS ANGELES — Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin in 1968, died Wednesday. He was 86. According to family friend Michael Roth, he died at his home in…
