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Winter X Games Snowmobiler Dies After Colorado Crash [VIDEO]

Gailen Sprague — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:22:00 +0000

The 25-year-old innovative freestyle snowmobile rider Caleb Moore has died after being injured in a crash last week during the Winter X Games in Colorado.Family spokeswoman Chelsea Lawson says Moore died Thursday morning. He had been staying at a hospital in Grand Junction. Moore was attempting a backflip on Jan. 24 in the freestyle event [...]

'Diff'rent Strokes' Star Conrad Bain Dead at 89

Kevin Fitzpatrick — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:21:32 +0000

Like his co-star Gary Coleman before him, Conrad Bain, one of TV’s most beloved icons, has sadly passed on. The long-time star of legendary TV sitcom ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ is reported to have died this week of unknown causes at the age of 89. No details of Bain’s death have been released to the public as [...]

Prize-Winning Composer And Conductor Marvin Hamlisch Has Died [VIDEO]

Gailen Sprague — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:20:41 +0000

Oscar, Grammy, Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and conductor Marvin Hamlisch has died, Billboard.biz reports. He was 68. His family reports he collapsed after a brief illness and passed away Monday.

Richard Dawson, Dead at 79

Gailen Sprague — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 16:14:40 +0000

Richard Dawson, the English actor best known as the host of Family Feud, and for playing Corporal Newkirk in the Hogan’s Heroes, has died, ABC News has confirmed. He was 79. Dawson had a small role in the Dick Van Dyke Show, but his U.S. TV breakthrough came with Hogan’s Heroes, the highly-rated sitcom set [...]