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…
Pete Cassidy, who served 25 years as a men’s basketball coach at Cal State Northridge and was considered a San Fernando Valley coaching icon, died on Friday Valencia died 86, according to former Northridge athletic director Robert Hilgert. Pete Cassidy…
Peg Murray, who won a 1967 Tony Award for Fräulein Kost’s portrayal in Cabaret and later recurred for 13 years on ABC’s daytime drama All My Children, died Nov. 29. In recent years at an assisted care community in Greenport, Long Island, Murray…
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…
On March 18th, 2020, a 43- year-old British pilot in Vietnam, Stephen Cameron, was diagnosed with Covid-19 and admitted to a Ho Chi Minh City hospital. As the most critically ill patient in the country. Cameron became a rallying point…
Jeremy Bulloch, the English actor, career spanned nearly five decades. He gained recognition for originating the physical portrayal of Boba Fett in the Star Wars franchise, appearing as the character in the films The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983). Bulloch would return to the…
Robert Werden handled the Oscars’ publicity between 1975 and 1993 as press liaison for the Academy Awards when he worked at Ruder Finn & Rotman. Later, for Ruder-Finn Public Relations, the Academy’s public relations firm. For over a decade, he…
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.…
SourceMSN: Bob Kaliban, a veteran voice actor and former president of the New York branch of the Screen Actors Guild, died December 12. He was 87. Kaliban’s voice-over career spanned over 50 years and thousands of commercials, but he perhaps was…
Microsoft News: Carol Sutton, whose half-century long acting career spanned stage, movies, and television, died Thursday at Touro Infirmary in New Orleans. She was 76 and died of coronavirus infection complications, said Tommye Myrick, a friend and local theater director. “Among…
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…
