Entertainment

Howard Stern remembers Joan Rivers with eulogy

NEW YORK (AP) — Howard Stern delivered the eulogy, Broadway singer-actress Audra McDonald sang “Smile” and bagpipers played “New York, New York” at Joan Rivers’ funeral Sunday, a star-studded send-off that — like late comedian […]

Entertainment

Comedian Joan Rivers dead at 81

NEW YORK (AP) — Joan Rivers, the raucous, acid-tongued comedian who crashed the male-dominated realm of late-night talk shows and turned Hollywood red carpets into danger zones for badly dressed celebrities, died Thursday. She was […]

Entertainment

Lauren Bacall, sultry-voiced actress, dead at 89

NEW YORK (AP) — Lauren Bacall, the slinky, sultry-voiced actress who created on-screen magic with Humphrey Bogart in “To Have and Have Not” and “The Big Sleep” and off-screen magic in one of Hollywood’s most […]

Entertainment

Actor/comedian Robin Williams found dead in apparent suicide

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Robin Williams, the Academy Award winner and comic supernova whose explosions of pop culture riffs and impressions dazzled audiences for decades and made him a gleamy-eyed laureate for the Information Age, […]

Editorials

Analysis: David Green was a storyteller, workers’ champion

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The late David Green filled two roles in the Mississippi House of Representatives. One was to cool off the combatants when the legislative wars became too heated. The other was to […]

Obituaries

Norris Lee Carson

December 11, 1940 – July 26, 2014 N.L. (Norris Lee) Carson was born to Wesley and Helen Caldwell Carson on December 11, 1940 in Leake County, Miss. He was brother to Dorothy Mae, Henry Clay, […]

Obituaries

Dr. Frank B. McCune Jr

August 31, 1942 – July 23, 2014 Major Frank B. McCune Jr., MD, affectionately known as “Doc,” was born August 31, 1942 in Jackson, to the late Frank B. McCune Sr. and Eva Jones McCune. […]

Education

Remembering professor of education Dr. Edward Vaughn

 The Mississippi Link Newswire The Alcorn family lost longtime educator Dr. Edward Vaughn Saturday, July 19. Vaughn was a professor in the School of Education and Psychology and former dean of the College for Excellence […]

Entertainment

Movie, TV legend James Garner dies at 86

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor James Garner, whose whimsical style in the 1950s TV Western “Maverick” led to a stellar career in TV and films such as “The Rockford Files” and his Oscar-nominated “Murphy’s Romance,” […]