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Bonnie Franklin died, Friday, March 1 at her home in Los Angeles due to complications from pancreatic cancer. She was 69. She became a household name because of the long-running sitcom “One Day at a Time.” In her last years,…
The parents of a 6-year-old transgender Coy Mathis, who was born a boy but raised as a girl, have filed a complaint with the Colorado Office of Civil Rights after her school district refused to allow her to use the…
More details have emerged from the investigation into Dr. Nikita Levy, the Johns Hopkins gynecologist accused of secretly recording his patients. As forensic investigators sift through computer servers and hard drives for images they believe Levy captured inside exam rooms…
The hero of the French Resistance, Stephane Hessel, died on Tuesday in Paris at age 95. His death was confirmed by his son Antoine. Born German, he became a naturalized French citizen in 1939. He participated in the editing of…
Award-winning short-film director, Adam Strange, 46, was killed Wednesday in a bloody Great White shark attack off New Zealand while police in a helicopter watched helplessly from above. Adam Strange was attacked and pulled under water about 200metres from Auckland’s…
A top female judge had sex with a prison inmate half her age in an interview room, authorities have said Wednesday. The 52-year-old judge Lisa Traylor-Wolff is accused of having a “physically intimate relationship with a 26-year-old client and inmate”…
Blackface apology issued! Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) publicly apologized today for his Purim costume that caused a stir in the borough. A pictured posted on Facebook shows Hikind with his face painted black with an Afro-style wig on his head….
The US Coast Guard intensified its search today for a family of four, including two young children, who may be clinging to a life ring and a cooler off the Northern California coast after their sailboat took on water. A…
Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop died at his home in Hanover, N.H. on Monday, February 25, 2013. He was 96. A 1937 graduate of Dartmouth, Dr. Koop was known as “America’s Family Doctor” during his time as Surgeon…
Songwriter, Diane Lampert, died of heart failure Friday at a Manhattan hospital. She was 88. Lampert worked on songs performed by Brenda Lee, Steve Lawrence, Red Foley, The Lettermen and others. She also was a writer on a Beatles song,…