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SHREVEPORT, LA. (AP) — Frank Page, the man who helped introduce Elvis Presley to worldwide audiences through the Louisiana Hayride, the state’s version of the heralded Grand Ole Opry country […]

Famed for blurting out “That’s amazing!” or “Oh my gosh!” during interviews, the white-maned Howser had announced he was retiring from his show California’s Gold on Nov. 27.

PARAMUS, N.J. (AP) — Tony Lip, an actor known for playing mobsters on “The Sopranos” and in many feature films, died on Friday in Teaneck, N.J. He was 82. Family […]

Gerry Anderson, puppetry pioneer and British creator of the syndicated sci-fi hit Thunderbirds, has died. He was 83. Anderson’s son Jamie said his father died peacefully in his sleep on […]

Mooney served from 1984 to 1993 as president & CEO of NCTA. He was principal and managing partner of JLM Partners Inc., a Seattle-based boutique corporate communications firm serving clients in the cable, wireless, consumer electronics, and digital media sectors for more than 15 years.

Durning, who died Monday at age 89 in New York, had a prolific 50-year career as a consummate Oscar-nominated character actor, playing everyone from a Nazi colonel to the pope to Dustin Hoffman’s would-be suitor in Tootsie. His television credits included Rescue Me, Evening Shade, Now and Again and Everybody Loves Raymond.

The prolific, craggy-faced character actor and regular guy who was loved by millions as the messy one in ABC’s The Odd Couple and the crime-fighting coroner in NBC’s Quincy, M.E., died Monday.

The Democrat, a senator since January 1963, was currently the longest serving senator and was president pro tempore of the Senate, third in the presidential succession line. His office said Monday that he died of respiratory complications at a Washington-area hospital. When the Democrats regained control in the 2006 elections, Inouye became chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, a post he held for two years.

The founder of Allbritton Communications, owner of eight ABC affiliates, Washington, D.C.’s local cable news channel and Politico, got his start in banking before turning his hand to the media business in 1974.

London (AP) — British astronomer and broadcaster Patrick Moore, well known for his long-running BBC television show “The Sky at Night,” died Sunday, friends and colleagues said. He was 89. […]

DALLAS — “Dallas” actor Larry Hagman will be remembered this week during private, invitation-only services in Dallas and Los Angeles.The television actor known for starring as slick oilman J.R. Ewing […]