There are hundreds and hundreds of people out there who believe that, secretly, they were David Carr's favorite. And maybe we all were. He had the rare emotional capacity to make each of us his favorite, one by one by one.
Veteran New York Times columnist, reporter, and author David Carr died in the paper's newsroom Thursday night. He was 58.
Authorities believe an estimated 300 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean in dinghies were "swallowed by the waves" leaving only a handful of survivors off the Italian coast.
Longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon reportedly died in a car crash Wednesday night. He was 73.
Greg Plitt, an actor, model and Bravo TV personality, died Saturday after he was hit by a train in Burbank, CA. According to reports, he was shooting some sort of fitness video at the time.
A$AP Yams, the founder of A$AP Mob—a hip-hop collective whose most famous members include A$AP Rocky and A$AP Ferg—has passed away, The Fader reports. He was 26 years old; the cause of death is unknown.
Every year now another Marlboro Man dies. This year it's Darrell Hugh Winfield, who passed away Monday at his home in Wyoming at the age of 85.
Sure it could just be an accident, but I saw the 1994 winter Olympics.
Taylor Negron—an actor, playwright and essayist who became "fame-ish" after appearing in more than 100 films and television shows—died Saturday. He was 57.
"I'm not a terrific candidate," Mario Cuomo once said about his presidential prospects in 1984. "I gave two good speeches."
Mario Cuomo, three-term governor of New York and near-presidential candidate, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 82.
Veteran character actor Edward Herrmann has died, TMZ reports. He was 71.
Legendary rock singer Joe Cocker has died from complications of lung cancer. He was 70.
Anthony D. Marshall, a Tony award-winning, one-time CIA operative best known for trying to swindle millions of dollars from his ailing heiress mother, Brooke Astor, died Monday. He was 90 and a terrible son.
A German student who was attacked after protecting two teen girls from a group of harassers died Friday from her injuries. Hundreds showed up to Sunday vigils for Tugce Albayrak in Berlin and outside the Offenbach hospital where she died. She was 23.
Friends of a 32-year-old Idaho woman who died suddenly of a brain aneurysm last month said they were shocked to find that her family had cut her hair short and dressed her in a suit for her open-casket funeral, presenting her as a man. Jennifer Gable, a trans woman born with the name Geoffrey, had been presenting as a…
Every adventure has to end sometime: R.A. Montgomery, the author and publisher who launched the Choose Your Own Adventure series that got a generation of '80s kids hooked on reading, died Sunday at his home in Vermont. He was 78. A cause of death hasn't been made public.
The bloodied, dead body of a porpoise was found in a Tarring, West Sussex alleyway a mile away from sea earlier this month. Scientists that examined the porpoise's body believe the poor guy died expending all his energy mating. Fucked himself dead.
The Scottish bassist and singer best known for his role in '60s group Cream died in his home in Suffolk, England on Saturday, a statement from his family said.
