Mississippi and Alabama are the last states to celebrate Confederate general Robert E. Lee alongside Civil Rights icon Martin ...

Lee Shulman, Stanford educational psychologist and educator, died on Dec. 30 at age 86. Shulman’s research shaped modern understanding of knowledge, pedagogy, human development and the ...

For a backup catcher with limited physical talent, Bob Uecker enjoyed a larger-than-life career in baseball and beyond – due, in large part, to an uncanny ability to laugh at himself. Uecker, a ...

A Texas father suffered a medical episode and died while trying to save his teen son, who was killed in an accidental shooting involving his own brother, according to authorities and a local ...

A Branchville man who has spent more than half his life on death row has chosen to die by lethal injection instead of by ...

Proving skeptics wrong, he shared a Nobel Prize in 2013 for using computers to better understand chemical reactions and biological processes. By Dylan Loeb McClain Martin Karplus, a Nobel Prize ...

Singer Linda Nolan, who rose to fame alongside her sisters in The Nolans, has died after several years of battling cancer. The Irish star, 65, and her sisters Coleen, Maureen, Bernie, Denise and ...

Australian model and DJ Courtney Mills has died at the age of 37 after falling from a balcony. Courtney was in Kuta, Bali on holiday when she suffered the fall. She had been visiting her two dogs ...

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Australian journalist and television presenter Simon Townsend has died aged 79. His family confirmed the news, saying Townsend had a short battle with an aggressive cancer. He was best known as ...

It's easy to sit back and get depressed about it, but I'm still going. My hope for 2025? To not die, obviously. I just want to be here with my family." In one of her candid Mirror columns ...

Courtney Mills, 37, from Melbourne, was on holiday in Kuta when she plunged from an apartment building on Friday. She was rushed to hospital where she underwent a number of operations but she died ...