Christopher Bond, Former Missouri Governor and U.S. Senator, Dies at 86
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Christopher Bond, Former Missouri Governor and U.S. Senator, Dies at 86

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Christopher S. Bond, who was Missouri’s youngest governor and the state’s first Republican governor since 1945 when he was elected in 1972, and who went on to serve four terms in the U.S. Senate, died on Tuesday in St. Louis. He was 86….

Koyo Kouoh, Prominent Art World Figure, Is Dead at 57
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Koyo Kouoh, Prominent Art World Figure, Is Dead at 57

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Koyo Kouoh, one of the global art world’s most prominent figures, who had been slated to become the first African woman to curate the Venice Biennale, died on Saturday in Switzerland. She was 57. Her death was confirmed by the biennale’s organizers. The…

David H. Souter, Republican Justice Who Allied With Court’s Liberal Wing, Dies at 85
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David H. Souter, Republican Justice Who Allied With Court’s Liberal Wing, Dies at 85

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines “Everyone who knew him knew that he was a sophisticated, well-read, and urbane man, hardly a hayseed from New Hampshire,” Professor Tushnet said, as he had some reason to know; his daughter, Rebecca, spent a year as one of the justice’s law clerks….

James Foley, Who Directed ‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’ Dies at 71
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James Foley, Who Directed ‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’ Dies at 71

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines James Foley, a veteran director whose films included “Glengarry Glen Ross” and the “Fifty Shades of Grey” sequels, and who also worked on the hit television series “House of Cards,” died on Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 71. The…

Will Hutchins, Gentle Cowboy Lawman in ‘Sugarfoot,’ Dies at 94
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Will Hutchins, Gentle Cowboy Lawman in ‘Sugarfoot,’ Dies at 94

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Will Hutchins, who had a comically genteel starring role during the craze for television westerns in the 1950s, playing a sheriff who favored cherry soda over whiskey on “Sugarfoot,” died on April 21 in Manhasset, N.Y., on the North Shore of Long Island….

Bob Filner, Mayor of San Diego Who Left Amid Scandal, Dies at 82
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Bob Filner, Mayor of San Diego Who Left Amid Scandal, Dies at 82

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Bob Filner, a progressive Democrat who served two decades in Congress and then successfully ran for mayor of San Diego, promising to shake up City Hall — but whose career imploded within months amid a storm of sexual harassment charges — died on…

Pierre Audi, Eminent Force in the Performing Arts, Dies at 67
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Pierre Audi, Eminent Force in the Performing Arts, Dies at 67

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines He was educated at the University of Oxford, where he directed a production of Shakespeare’s “Timon of Athens” in 1977. A few years before, Mr. Audi had led a group that purchased an early-19th-century building in the Islington neighborhood of London that, over…

Dick Barnett, Champion Knick With a Singular Jump Shot, Dies at 88
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Dick Barnett, Champion Knick With a Singular Jump Shot, Dies at 88

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Dick Barnett, who helped propel the Knicks to their glory days in the 1970s with his strange jump-shooting style, and who played on the only two N.B.A. championship teams in the Knicks’ history, died in his sleep last night in Largo, Fla. He…