A young man with aspirations to take his football talents to the NFL died this week – just days before the league’s annual draft. Amitral “AJ” Simon, a 25-year-old defensive lineman who finished his college career at the University at Albany in New York, passed away unexpectedly. Simon was a star for the Great Danes […]
President Joe Biden’s least-popular Cabinet secretary will skate free from a formal Senate impeachment trial. The Senate dismissed two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday. The move guarantees that Mayorkas won’t stand trial in the upper chamber. The secretary faced charges of willful and systemic refusal to comply with the […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Former Florida Sen. Bob Graham, who chaired the Intelligence Committee following the 2001 terrorist attacks and opposed the Iraq invasion, has died. He was 87. His family announced the death Tuesday in a statement posted on X by his daughter Gwen Graham. Graham, who served three terms in the Senate, made an […]
Beverly LaHaye, a pastor’s wife who founded Concerned Women for America and led a revolt that defeated the Equal Rights Amendment, died Sunday at an assisted living facility in El Cajon, California. She was 94. Starting with six women in her living room, Mrs. LaHaye built Concerned Women for America into a national conservative advocacy […]
RICH CREEK, Va. — Gene Herrick, a retired Associated Press photographer who covered the Korean War and is known for his iconic images of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and the trial of the killers of Emmett Till in the early years of the Civil Rights Movement, died Friday. He was 97. In 1956, […]
Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of “Apocalypse Now,” and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died. She was 87. Coppola died Friday at home in Rutherford, California, her family announced in a statement. Eleanor, who grew in Orange […]
LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76. The family announced on Simpson’s official X account – formerly Twitter – that Simpson died Wednesday […]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Democrat Joseph E. Brennan, whose hardscrabble childhood shaped his working-class views in a political career that included two terms as Maine’s governor and two terms in the U.S. House, died Friday evening at his home in Portland. He was 89. Brennan died with his wife at his side a few blocks […]
A construction worker was killed and three other people were injured after part of a crane fell onto a bridge in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Thursday. The piece also crushed two cars. Workers were adding more sections to the crane to make it taller, a process known as stepping, when the accident occurred, Fort Lauderdale Fire […]
The collapse of an overhanging mass of snow has sent an experienced mountain climber plummeting to his death in the crater of Mount St. Helens in Washington. Roscoe Shorey, 42, had reached the summit of the volcano 28 times prior to his final attempt on Friday, the Skamania County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook […]
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