John Thornton, Venture Capitalist Who Founded The Texas Tribune, Dies at 59
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John Thornton, Venture Capitalist Who Founded The Texas Tribune, Dies at 59

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines John Thornton, a financier who leveraged his wealth and influence to embark on the seemingly quixotic mission of reviving local journalism in a time of crisis, by founding The Texas Tribune, a seminal regional nonprofit news organization, and the American Journalism Project, which…

Leonardo Patterson, Disgraced Dealer in Latin American Artifacts, Dies at 82
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Leonardo Patterson, Disgraced Dealer in Latin American Artifacts, Dies at 82

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Leonardo Augustus Patterson was born on April 15, 1942, in Limon, a town on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Little is known about his family history. He said that his father left home when he was very young and that his mother,…

Joe DePugh, Pitcher Who Inspired Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Glory Days,’ Dead at 75
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Joe DePugh, Pitcher Who Inspired Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Glory Days,’ Dead at 75

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Joe DePugh, the Little League teammate of Bruce Springsteen who inspired the rocker’s hit song “Glory Days,” a rousing, bittersweet anthem to their hardscrabble childhoods in Freehold, N.J., where time passed by “in the wink of a young girl’s eye,” died on Friday…

Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65
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Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines “Most actors recognize there’s something different in Val than meets the eye,” Mr. Stone said in a 2007 interview for a segment of the television series “Biography.” David Mamet, the playwright and screenwriter who directed Mr. Kilmer in the political thriller “Spartan” (2004),…

Richard Chamberlain, TV Heartthrob Turned Serious Actor, Dies at 90
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Richard Chamberlain, TV Heartthrob Turned Serious Actor, Dies at 90

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Mr. Chamberlain made his film debut in “The Secret of the Purple Reef” (1960), a crime drama set in the Caribbean. He agreed to exploit his Kildare image by playing a young doctor in “Joy in the Morning” (1965), a lightweight drama about…

Herb Greene, Who Photographed the Grateful Dead and Other 1960s Rock Acts, Dies at 82
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Herb Greene, Who Photographed the Grateful Dead and Other 1960s Rock Acts, Dies at 82

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Herb Greene, whose evocative portraits of the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin and others helped define the rock scene that emerged in San Francisco in the mid-1960s, died on March 3 at his home in Maynard, Mass. He was 82. His wife,…

J. Bennett Johnston, Who Shaped U.S. Energy Policy, Dies at 92
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J. Bennett Johnston, Who Shaped U.S. Energy Policy, Dies at 92

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines J. Bennett Johnston Jr., a Louisiana Democrat and four-term United States senator who helped shape America’s energy and science policies in an era of rising concerns over the perils of nuclear power and the nation’s dependence on foreign oil, died in Arlington, Va.,…

Mia Love, First Black Republican Woman Elected to Congress, Dies at 49
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Mia Love, First Black Republican Woman Elected to Congress, Dies at 49

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Mia Love, the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, who served from 2015 to 2019, died on Sunday at her home in Utah. She was 49. Her family confirmed the death in a post on one of Ms. Love’s social media pages….

Max Frankel, Top Times Editor Who Led a Newspaper in Transition, Dies at 94
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Max Frankel, Top Times Editor Who Led a Newspaper in Transition, Dies at 94

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Max Frankel, who fled Nazi Germany as a boy and rose to pinnacles of American journalism as a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Times and later as its executive editor during eight years of changing fortunes and technology, died on Sunday…

Kitty Dukakis, Wife of 1988 Presidential Nominee, Dies at 88
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Kitty Dukakis, Wife of 1988 Presidential Nominee, Dies at 88

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Kitty Dukakis, an activist first lady and humanitarian, who overcame alcoholism and depression with the help of electroconvulsive therapy, then became a proponent of the treatment with her husband, Michael S. Dukakis, the former Massachusetts governor and the 1988 Democratic presidential nominee, died…