With only a few days left in the year, here’s a look at some of the people who passed away in 2016.
Nation and World
Reaction to the death of actress Debbie Reynolds Wednesday at 84, a day after her daughter, Carrie Fisher, died.
The brother of JonBenet Ramsey has filed a $750 million defamation lawsuit against CBS and Critical Content in connection with the four-hour documentary series “The Case of JonBenet Ramsey” that aired in September.
British author Richard Adams, whose 1972 book “Watership Down” became a classic of children’s literature, has died, according to his daughter. He was 96.
Authorities say rapper Troy Ave has been shot while sitting in his car at a Brooklyn intersection.
Carrie Fisher is in stable condition days after suffering a medical emergency, according to her mother, actress Debbie Reynolds.
A popular member of “The Howard Stern Show” known to fans as Joey Boots has been found dead in his New York apartment. Joseph Bassolino was 49.
A woman who died of cancer just days before her appearance on “Jeopardy!” aired won six contests in a row and more than $103,000, some of which she donated to cancer research.
The site of the Woodstock music festival, a defining moment for rock ‘n’ roll and hippie culture in the late 1960s, was among more than two dozen locations in New York nominated on Tuesday for historic landmark status.
Agency’s acceptance of rights to Michael Heizer’s enormous earth artwork City on private land within Basin and Range National Monument will lead to public being able to view it “soon,” Nevada’s Sen. Harry Reid said Thursday.
Lawyers for Bill Cosby will battle in court starting Tuesday as they try to limit the number of other accusers who can testify at his sexual assault trial.
The comic book heroine Wonder Woman has been abruptly fired from her honorary ambassador job at the United Nations
Hundreds of flights into and out of Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway airports were canceled Sunday as a winter storm system dumped moderate to heavy snow on the Upper Midwest and Lower Great Lakes regions.
Former schoolkids recall the day in 1977 when Hollywood came calling with a trunkload of Jawa costumes and an elephant for a silly sounding space opera.
Greg Lake, the prog-rock pioneer who co-founded King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer, has died. He was 69.