Tom Kane died on Monday May 18, 2026, in Kansas City, Missouri, surrounded by his family. He was 64. His cause of death was complications from the stroke he suffered in 2020, the stroke that had taken his voice from him six years before it ultimately took his life. His representa
This is the first in an initial two-part series In April 1997, Jon Padfield — thirty years old, an electrical engineer by training — received a registered letter from General Motors informing him that his position no longer existed. At home, there was a three-month-old daughter.
Dennis Locorriere, the lead vocalist and founding member of Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show whose voice carried some of the most recognizable songs of the 1970s into homes across more than 40 countries, died on Friday May 16, 2026 at his home in West Sussex, England, following a l
The Rev. James Robison, the Texas-born televangelist who co-hosted the daily Christian program LIFE Today alongside his wife Betty for decades and whose ministry reached an estimated one billion homes worldwide through networks including TBN and Daystar, died on Sunday May 17, 20
Jackie Kennedy was one of the most photographed women in the world for most of her adult life, the woman who wore the pink Chanel suit to Dallas, who redecorated the White House as a national living museum, who spoke French to Charles de Gaulle and received the admiration of ever
Everlane, the San Francisco-based direct-to-consumer brand that spent fifteen years telling customers exactly what their clothes cost to make and why that transparency mattered, is reportedly being acquired by Shein for approximately $100 million, according to Puck News, which fi
Russell Andrews, the character actor whose work includes Better Call Saul, Insecure and Straight Outta Compton, went public with an ALS diagnosis on Friday May 16, 2026 during a CNN appearance alongside his fiancée, actress Erica Tazel, the first time he had spoken about the illn
Two United States Navy EA-18G Growler jets collided in midair, became entangled, and crashed to the ground in a ball of fire at the Gunfighter Skies Air Show at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho on Sunday May 17, 2026. The collision happened at approximately 12:10 PM Mountain
Colt Emerson was supposed to play in Tacoma on Sunday afternoon in front of a few thousand minor league fans at Cheney Stadium. Instead he packed a bag, made the drive north up Interstate 5, called his parents from the car and walked into T-Mobile Park as the youngest player to m
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was named the 2025-26 Kia NBA Most Valuable Player on Sunday May 17, 2026, winning back-to-back MVP awards in one of the most dominant voting performances the award has produced in years. The Oklahoma City Thunder guard received 83 of 100 first-place votes
Austin, Texas woke up Sunday morning to a city that was still under threat from a shooting spree that had started the afternoon before. A man walking his dog at 8:47 AM was shot in the back, the 10th or 11th incident in a series that had begun Saturday at 3:45 PM and that police
Part 1 made the geopolitical argument for Trump’s pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez. Part 2 examined the case the Biden Department of Justice put on. Part 3 examined how the prosecutors lied to secure the trial before a biased judge and an uninformed jury
