Jane Russell, the busty brunette who shot to fame as the sexy star of Howard Hughes’ 1941 Western ‘The Outlaw,’ died Monday of respiratory failure, her family said. She was 89. Although Missis Russell made only a handful of films after the 1960′s, she had remained active in her church, with charitable organizations and with […]
One year after ‘Deadliest Catch’ star Captain Phil Harris died of a stroke, another crew member has been found dead in an Alaska hotel room, TMZ reported Wednesday. Justin Tennison (33) of the F/V Time Bandit was found unresponsive Tuesday afternoon at the Best Western Bidarka Inn. Police discovered a small amount of cannabis and […]
Louisville, KY. Former U of L basketball player, Troy Jackson died Saturday at age 35. Jackson played for coach Denny Crum from 1996 to 1998. He later played on the And-1 Streetball Mixtape Tour. Jackson is the brother of former NBA star and current NBA TV analyst, Mark Jackson and is the uncle of Mark […]
Len Lesser, a veteran character actor perhaps best known to modern audiences as Seinfeld’s Uncle Leo, has died of complications from pneumonia. He was 88. Lesser’s long career in television began in 1949 with a role in Studio One In Hollywood. In the early days, he often found work playing thugs and hoodlums in shows […]
On ’20/20′ Friday night, ABC brought you the dramatic story of the Kim family. They are the Bay Area parents who got lost in a blizzard in Oregon with their two young children after taking a wrong turn. Even with the tragic death of James Kim, the family expressed gratitude for the efforts of search […]
J. Paul Getty III, the troubled grandson of one of the world’s richest men who lost an ear in a grisly kidnapping as a teenager and suffered a devastating stroke as a young man, has died. He was 54. His son, actor Balthazar Getty, confirmed that his father had died last Saturday at his Buckinghamshire […]
Tampa, Florida. Today, a mother who shot and killed her own two children is already imprisoned in Florida. According to police spokesperson Laura McElroy – Julie Powers Schenecker shot her son Beau Powers Schenecker inside the car, while she drove him going to his soccer practice. The son was answering back to his mother while […]
In the span of a week, NASA is observing its three darkest moments in spaceflight. Including today’s 25th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger disaster. Seven astronauts died January 28, 1986, when Challenger was destroyed just after liftoff. It was NASA’s first in-flight calamity, and it dealt an especially severe blow to the millions of […]
Patricia Krenwinkel, who joined Charles Manson’s clan in a string of grisly killings more than 40 years ago, was denied parole Thursday. Krenwinkel (63) was convicted on seven counts of first-degree murder for her role in the Tate-LaBianca murders that terrorized Los Angeles in 1969. Among the victims was actress Sharon Tate, who was married […]
Today, exactly 47 years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the museum that has chronicled that fateful day finds itself in a delicate balancing act. On the one hand, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza wants to keep jogging the emotions of those old enough to recall the tragedy. On the other, […]