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Film and theater figure Henry Guettel dies at 85

Henry Guettel, a film executive with both 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures as well as a former head of the Theatre Development Fund, died Monday of pneumonia in Southampton, N.Y., according to his wife, Mary Rodgers Guettel. He was 85. Guettel had been a vice president at 20th Century ...

  • Updated: 5:15 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013
File - In this Dec. 5, 2002 file photo, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef sits surrounded by members of his staff during a rally of his Ultra-Orthodox Shas party in Jerusalem. Rabbi Ovadia, the religious scholar and spiritual leader of Israel's Sephardic Jews who transformed his downtrodden community of immigrants from North Africa and Arab nations and their descendants into a powerful force in Israeli politics, has died. He was 93.(AP Photo/Enric Marti, File)

Death of Israeli kingmaker leaves huge void

To his supporters, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef was a revered spiritual sage who empowered masses of disenfranchised Sephardic Jews. Among secular Israelis, he was widely perceived as a medieval figure, bedecked in flowing robes and occasionally given to bizarre rants. But through his control of the Shas political party, Yosef wielded ...

  • Updated: 3:58 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013

Boy who survived rare birth defect dies at 13

A boy who grew up in Indiana and overcame extraordinary odds to survive a rare congenital defect in which he was born with his heart outside his chest has died at age 13. Tyler Jacob Todd died unexpectedly Thursday at his family's home in Memphis, Tenn., where his family had ...

  • Updated: 7:26 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013
In this March 21, 2013 photo, Nicholas Oresko, a 96 year old medal of honor recipient celebrates at the Sunrise Community senior center in Cresskill, N.J. Nicholas Oresko, an Army master sergeant who was badly wounded when he single-handedly took out two enemy bunkers during the Battle of the Bulge in 1945, died Friday night, Oct. 4, 2013 at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, hospital officials announced Saturday. He was 96. He was the nation's oldest living Medal of Honor recipient(AP Photo/The Record of Bergen County, Marko Georgiev) ONLINE OUT; MAGS OUT; TV OUT; INTERNET OUT; NO ARCHIVING; MANDATORY CREDIT

WWII vet, oldest Medal of Honor recipient, dies

A World War II veteran and the nation's oldest living Medal of Honor recipient has died in New Jersey. Nicholas Oresko, an Army master sergeant who was badly wounded as he single-handedly took out two enemy bunkers during the Battle of the Bulge in 1945, died Friday night at Englewood ...

  • Updated: 5:22 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013
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In this Thursday, June 14, 2007 file photo released by the Italian Presidency Press office, Italian filmmaker Carlo Lizzani, left, attends a ceremony at the Quirinale Presidential palace in Rome. Lizzani, a protagonist of Italian Neorealism, has died in Rome, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013 at age 91. Lizzani died after a fall from the third-floor balcony of his home in Rome, and that authorities were investigating whether it was a suicide. Lizzani started out as a film critic, then as a writer on such seminal films as Roberto Rossellini's 1948 "Germany Year Zero" and Giuseppe De Santis' 1950 film "Bitter Rice," which earned him an Oscar nomination. The Academy of Italian Cinema awarded him best director for his 1968 film "The Violent Four," and best screenwriter for the 1996 film "Celluloide."(AP Photo/Enrico Oliverio,Italian Presidency Press office, File)

Reports: Italy filmmaker Carlo Lizzani dies at 91

Filmmaker Carlo Lizzani, a much-lauded protagonist of Italian Neorealism, has died, Italian state news media reported Saturday. He was 91. There was an outpouring of condolences after his death was reported, including from President Giorgio Napolitano, who knew Lizzani for decades and honored him for his contributions to "cinema, to ...

  • Updated: 5:02 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013
FILE - In this Monday, June 23, 1997 file photo, former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, left, speaks to his onetime foe Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap in Hanoi. Officials say legendary Gen. Giap, the military mastermind who drove the French and the Americans out of Vietnam, died at a Hanoi hospital Friday, Oct. 4, 2013 at age 102. He was the country's last famous communist revolutionary, and used ingenious guerrilla tactics to overcome enormous odds against superior forces. (AP Photo/Tri Hieu, File)

Legendary Vietnam Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap dies at 102

Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, the brilliant and ruthless commander who led the outgunned Vietnamese to victory first over the French and then the Americans, died Friday. The last of the country's old-guard revolutionaries was 102. A national hero, Giap enjoyed a legacy second only to that of his mentor, founding ...

  • Updated: 8:11 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, 2013

NE Kansas prep player dies following stroke

A northeast Kansas high school football player has died of complications from a stroke he suffered during a game Thursday night. The Shawnee Mission school district said 17-year-old Shawnee Mission West wide receiver Andre Maloney died Friday afternoon at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo. The Kansas City Star ...

  • Updated: 8:02 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, 2013
This image released by AMC shows Bryan Cranston, as Walter White, in the final scene from "Breaking Bad." The popular series about a chemistry teacher-turned drug dealer ended on Sunday, Sept 29. (AP Photo/AMC, Ursula Coyote)

'Breaking Bad' fans place Walter White obituary

The government is shut down. There was a deadly chase in the nation's capital. But the reason Albuquerque Journals are selling out across town has nothing to do with all that seriousness. Fans are clamoring for copies of Friday editions with a fake obit for Walter White. Placed by "Breaking ...

  • Updated: 5:59 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, 2013
This 2009 photo taken by R. David Marks and released courtesy of the Monroe Gallery shows photographer Bill Eppridge. Eppridge, whose legendary career included capturing images of a mortally wounded Robert Kennedy died Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013 in Danbury, Conn., after a brief illness. He was 75. His career included stints working for high-profile magazines like Life magazine, Sports Illustrated and National Geographic. He photographed a wide range of subjects, from the Beatles to young people in what was then the U.S.S.R. (AP Photo/courtesy of the Monroe Gallery, R. David Marks)

Photographer at RFK assassination dies in Conn.

Photojournalist Bill Eppridge, whose career included capturing images of a mortally wounded Robert F. Kennedy, has died at age 75. He died Thursday at a Danbury hospital after a brief illness, said his wife, Adrienne Aurichio. Eppridge was at the scene on June 5, 1968, when Kennedy, then a U.S. ...

  • Updated: 6:41 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013

Designer of pioneering Braille math code dies

Abraham Nemeth, the blind designer of the internationally recognized Nemeth Braille Math Code that simplified symbols for easier use in advanced math and science, has died at his home in suburban Detroit, relatives said Thursday. He was 94. Nemeth, who was originally discouraged from pursuing his passion for math because ...

  • Updated: 4:54 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013
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