ATLANTA, March 29 (UPI) -- Bishop Earl Paulk, a charismatic preacher dogged by accusations of sexual impropriety, has died of cancer in Atlanta at age 81, his family says.Paulk died Saturday at the Atlanta Medical Center, Paulk's nephew, Bishop Jim ...Read More
Ryan O'Neal is finally saying the right thing.
The Love Story star is totally fine with Farrah Fawcett's decision to leave the bulk of her estate to their son, Redmond.
"Farrah's and my relationship was based on a deep love and respect ...Read More
Ryan O'Neal may have been the love of Farrah Fawcett's life, but their long-time romance evidently didn't qualify him for rights to her estate.
Fawcett, who died of cancer in June at age 62, did not name O'Neal in her will, ...Read More
(CNN) -- Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, more than 25 years after he was treated for Hodgkin's disease, a spokesman at his company Vulcan Inc. told CNN on Monday.
Paul Allen "received the diagnosis early this ...Read More
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, one of basketball's all-time greatest players, announced Tuesday morning that he has cancer. The sports legend made the public disclosure nearly a year after being diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia.
"Having lost one of my closest friends to a ...Read More
BOSTON—Massachusetts lawmakers are considering tighter restrictions on the use of toxic chemicals in consumer products as a way to encourage the use of safer alternatives. A bill co-sponsored by 38 legislators would make it the official policy of the state to ...Read More
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Dirty Dancing" star Patrick Swayze's widow, Lisa Niemi, said that even though her husband's battle with cancer lasted nearly two years, that did not prepare her for his death in September.
"This is all new to me, ...Read More
Patrick Swayze's widow Lisa Niemi is finding it hard to move on following her husband's tragic death - because she feels it would be a "betrayal."
Niemi, who was married to the star for 34 years, stood by Swayze when he ...Read More
ST. LOUIS—A Wisconsin diocese has suspended a Catholic priest who fathered a child during a five-year relationship. The Diocese of Superior said late Friday that the Rev. Henry Willenborg had been suspended with pay. The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ...Read More
LANCASTER, Calif. - Bluesman Abu Talib, who recorded and toured with Ray Charles and Little Walter under his given name, Freddy Robinson, has died. He was 70. His daughter, Linda Chaplin, said Mr. Talib died of cancer Thursday at a hospital ...Read More
Oct 9th, 2009 | LANCASTER, Calif. -- Bluesman Abu Talib, who recorded and toured with Ray Charles and Little Walter under his given name, Freddy Robinson, has died. He was 70. His daughter, Linda Chaplin, said Talib died of cancer Thursday ...Read More
Dr. Frederick "Fred" Wirth, the physician to America's first test-tube baby, has died. His wife, Linda, says the 68-year-old Wirth died Monday of pancreatic cancer. Wirth was the neonatologist who cared for Elizabeth Jordan Carr after her birth on Dec. 28, 1981. Carr, ...Read More
DELAWARE, Ohio—An Ohio woman has been sentenced to eight years in prison for scamming family and friends out of tens of thousands of dollars by claiming her husband was sick with cancer. Thirty-year-old Melanie Chen, of Columbus, also was ordered to ...Read More
Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- It was Christmas Day, 1984, and CarolGreider, a 23-year-old first-year graduate student at theUniversity of California, Berkeley, couldn’t stay away from thelab where she and assistant professor Elizabeth Blackburn weretrying to untangle a genetic mystery.
Greider had ...Read More
* Post-mortem shows girl had serious "medical condition" * Results show vaccine "most unlikely" to have caused death * Glaxo (GSK.L) recalls batch of vaccine as precaution (Recasts after post mortem shows underlying health condition) LONDON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - ...Read More
The New York Times said the book proposal by former Edwards aide Andrew Young states he helped facilitate the affair between Edwards and Rielle Hunter. According to the newspaper, Young wrote that Edwards told Hunter they would wed after Edwards' ...Read More
Seeking to cut costs and bring new drugs to market more quickly as its bestsellers go off-patent, drugmaker Eli Lilly said Monday that it will eliminate 5,500 jobs over two years and reorganize into five business units. The Indianapolis company said ...Read More
(OPRAH.com) -- My mother is fond of telling me I'm overthinking it -- "it" being anything from the virtues of organic mulch for my flower beds to which booster seats to buy for my daughters -- so you can imagine ...Read More
Poor DJ Mingle Mix. He'd reserved his whole summer to be on “Big Brother,” and now it's barely August and he's out the door. I guess now he's available to DJ at your party, what with all this newfound free ...Read More
"In my 23 years working in England there is not a person I would put an inch above Sir Bobby Robson. I mourn the passing of a great friend; a wonderful individual; a tremendous football man and somebody with passion ...Read More
A British teen who survived a dire heart condition as an infant, thanks to transplant surgery that gave her two hearts, has made a "magic" recovery, her doctor said. A decade after her first heart transplant and years after surviving bouts ...Read More
