Photographer Richard Avedon Dies in Texas
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Richard Avedon, one of the most  influential portrait and fashion photographers of the 20th  century, died on Friday at age 81 in Texas, where he had been  photographing an essay on democracy for the New Yorker  magazine, a magazine spokeswoman said.
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American photographer Eddie Adams, who shot one of the Vietnam War&#39;s iconic images, has died in New York at the age of 71. His picture of a South Vietnamese colonel executing a communist North Vietnamese Vietcong
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Al Shugart, a pioneer in the  computer disk drive industry and one of Silicon Valley's most  colorful entrepreneurs, has died. He was 76.
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Shelby Metcalf, who set a record for Southwest Conference victories in his 27 seasons as head coach at Texas A&amp;M, died Thursday at age 76.
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Eddie Adams, a photojournalist whose half-century of arresting work was defined by a single frame -- a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press photo of a communist guerrilla being executed in a Saigon street during the Vietnam War -- died Sunday. He was 71.
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Actor Jerry Orbach, best known for his long-running role as New York police detective Lennie Briscoe on &quot;Law &amp; Order,&quot; has died.
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An Iraqi photographer and driver working for Reuters in Iraq were killed in Baghdad on Thursday in what witnesses said was a U.S. helicopter attack but which the military described as a firefight with insurgents.
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A crew takes down a painting by the late Avard Fairbanks that had been hanging in a truck garage at the University of Utah for 28 years. The painting can now be seen at the Old Granite Church at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon.  (c) 2007 Deseret News (Salt Lake City).
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NEW YORK Sept. 20, 2004 - Photojournalist Eddie Adams took careful portraits of US presidents and world figures. But his best known work is one that was sudden and unglamorous: the 1968 killing of a Viet Cong captive in Vietnam.
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Al Shugart, a pioneer in the computer disk drive industry and one of Silicon Valley's most colorful entrepreneurs, has died. He was 76.
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Famed portrait photographer Richard  Avedon has suffered a brain hemorrhage while on assignment for  the New Yorker magazine in Texas and has been hospitalized, a  spokeswoman for the magazine said on Wednesday.
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Famed photographer Richard Avedon  is in critical but stable condition at an undisclosed San  Antonio hospital after suffering a brain hemorrhage, a source  close to the family said on Thursday.
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Former Texas first lady Nellie  Connally, who was riding in the limousine with President John  F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in 1963, has died at the  age of 87, a family friend said on Saturday.
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Richard Childress can empathize with at least some of the despair that fellow NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick is going through. Nearly four years ago, Dale Earnhardt was killed while driving for Childress in the Daytona 500.
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Jerry Orbach, who starred in the television series &quot;Law &amp; Order&quot; and portrayed the overprotective father in the dance-film classic &quot;Dirty Dancing,&quot; died of prostate cancer on Tuesday evening, according to reports.
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NEW YORK -- In an Aug. 17 story about the death of Carl Mydans, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Mydans took a photo of Gen. Douglas MacArthur wading ashore on his return to the Philippines in 1944. The photo was taken in ...
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Richard Avedon's fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century.