Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, has died at 76. Anderson, who chronicled his abduction and torturous imprisonment by Islamic militants in his best-selling 1993 memoir “Den of Lions,” …
Stephanie Sparks, an All-American college golf and former U.S. Curtis Cup player who went on to co-host several Golf Channel programs, in the reality show “Big Break,” died April 13 at 50. Living most recently in Orlando, Spark’s cause of death is unknown. Sparks was born in Wheeling, W.Va., and had an accomplished amateur golf …
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — The Rev. Cecil L. “Chip” Murray, who served as pastor of First African Methodist Episcopal Church for 27 years and was noted for his calming presence during the 1992 Los Angeles riots, has died at age 94. Murray died Friday, according to the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture. His …
(AP) – Actor Chance Perdomo, who rose to fame as a star of “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” and “Gen V,” has died at age 27 following a motorcycle crash. “On behalf of the family and his representatives, it is with heavy hearts that we share the news of Chance Perdomo’s untimely passing as a result …
Gen V and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina star Chance Pedromo has sadly passed away at the age of 27. His death comes as a result of a motorcycle accident. In a statement on behalf of Pedromo’s family and representatives, Pedromo’s family asks for privacy and remembered Chance as someone who had a “passion for the …
When Dick Higgins, the last survivor of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association’s Orange County Chapter 14, spoke of fellow survivor John Hughes’s death, he remarked on the importance of the association’s brotherhood. “We were a band of brothers,” he said in a 2022 interview. Pearl Harbor survivor Dick Higgins, 88, is congratulated at a Pearl …
DALLAS – Paul Alexander, a North Texas man who lived in an iron lung for most of his life, has died. According to his obituary, he died on March 11. He was 78. To the world, Dallas native Paul Alexander was known as “the man in the iron lung” or “polio Paul,” but to his …
NEW YORK — Steve Lawrence, a singer and top stage act who as a solo performer and in tandem with his wife Eydie Gorme kept Tin Pan Alley alive during the rock era, died Thursday. He was 88. Lawrence, whose hits included “Go Away Little Girl,” died from complications due to Alzheimer’s disease, said Susan …
Persistence. The descriptor was uttered often about Bill Brand, with more than a dozen speakers sharing stories about the beloved late Redondo Beach mayor at a public memorial on Sunday afternoon. The two-hour-plus tribute, at Redondo Union High School’s auditorium, was attended by hundreds. And elegies were presented by family and friends, by city officials, …
Richard Lewis, the actor and comedian known for his long-running stand-up career and recurring role on the hit HBO series “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” has died at 76, his publicist announced Wednesday. The cause of death was a heart attack, the publicist, Jeff Abraham, said. Comedian and actor Richard Lewis at his home in Los Angeles …