A small plane heading for Georgia spiraled out of control and crashed Tuesday morning on a major New York-area highway, hitting a wooded median and scattering wreckage across the road. All five people aboard (including two investment bankers) were killed, but no one on the ground was injured. The pilot had discussed icy conditions with […]
North Korea announced the death of supreme leader Kim Jong Il and urged its people on Monday to rally behind his young son and heir-apparent, while the world watched for signs of instability in a nation pursuing nuclear weapons. South Korea launched a high alert for its military as it faces the North’s 1,2 million-strong […]
British-American author and essayist Christopher Hitchens died Thursday from complications of esophageal cancer. He was 62. Hitchens was known for his wry monthly columns for Vanity Fair magazine. “There will never be another like Christopher. A man of ferocious intellect, who was as vibrant on the page as he was at the bar” – said […]
The Virginia Tech police officer who was gunned down in a campus attack joined the force six months after the university was the scene of the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history. He was a proud policeman who recently invited a friend to ride along with him, which made his death during a traffic […]
Harry Morgan, the actor best known for playing Colonel Sherman Potter in the US television comedy “M*A*S*H”, has died at his Los Angeles home aged 96. Morgan died after suffering from pneumonia, his son Christopher confirmed late on Wednesday. The Emmy award-winning actor appeared in more than 100 films in a prolific career on the […]
The surprise Japanese bombing attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, destroyed the U.S. Naval fleet on December 7, 1941, and propelled the entry of the United States into World War II. Four years ago, a list of World War II veterans in Decatur County was compiled and printed by The Post-Searchlight in commemoration of Veterans Day. […]
Patrice O’Neal (41) a veteran stand-up comic who gained a wider following through TV and radio and helped roast Charlie Sheen in September, died Tuesday from complications of a stroke he suffered last month. O’Neal’s manager (Jonathan Brandstein) said he died at a New York-area hospital. O’Neal grew up in Boston and started his stand-up […]
Anne McCaffrey, author of the “Dragonriders of Pern” series, has died. She was 85 years old. Her publisher Random House reportedly announced that the author passed away after suffering a stroke. McCaffrey’s books about a distant planet in which some inhabitants rode telepathic dragons to combat deadly falling alien Threads are considered seminal works of […]
Kurt Budke touched the lives of many people in his years as a women’s basketball coach. Now they are left trying to come to grips with the Oklahoma State coach’s sudden death. Budke and assistant Miranda Serna were killed when the single-engine plane transporting them on a recruiting trip crashed in steep terrain in Arkansas, […]
Natalie Wood’s death has been reopened as a homicide investigation, primarily because of a book written by the captain of the boat where Natalie Wood spent her last minutes … a book suggesting foul play … this according to sources close to the investigation. We’ve learned Marti Rulli – who co-authored the book – has […]