M. Lamar Muse, 86, Dies; Led Southwest Airlines
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M. Lamar Muse was the first president of Southwest Airlines and a pioneer of airline deregulation.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 28 -- Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Kennedy insider who helped define mainstream liberalism during the Cold War and remained an eminent public thinker into the 21st century, has died, his son said. He was 89.
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Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan, the Ruler of Abu Dhabi who died on Tuesday aged 86, was President of the United Arab Emirates and a moderate but visionary leader of his desert people.
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Taking advantage of the troubles at rival ATA Airlines, Southwest Airlines Co. announced Monday it would add 16 nonstop flights from Midway Airport.
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Southwest Airlines Co., the leading U.S. budget carrier, said on Monday it raised fares by as much as $10 each way, a move that triggered matching fare hikes by major rivals.
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Rocco Petrone, who was director of launch operations at Kennedy Space Center in the 1960s and played a key role in the Apollo program that landed men on the moon, has died. He was 80.
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Family, friends and admirers will all have a chance to say goodbye this weekend to Lady Bird Johnson, the widow of former President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who died Wednesday of natural causes at the LBJ Ranch, a family spokesman said.
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Lady Bird Johnson, 94, a first lady whose quiet ambition and determination allowed her to play an influential role in her husband's remarkable political career and to carve out an identity of her own as an advocate for beautifying the national landscape, died yesterday at her home in Austin.
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BATON ROUGE, La. Raful (RAY&#39;-ful) Neal, patriarch of a family of Louisiana blues singers and musicians, has died after a long battle with cancer.
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NASA has named William Parsons, a veteran manager who led the space shuttle program's return to flight after the 2003 Columbia accident, to run the Kennedy Space Center launch site.
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Southwest Airlines Co , the leading U.S. low-cost carrier, on Tuesday said it raised one-way fares by up to $10 to offset rising fuel costs.
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Southwest Airlines Inc. (LUV.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the largest US discount carrier, on Monday said it will eliminate 88 scheduled flights in order to boost revenue by freeing up planes for more lucrative markets.
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Ossie Davis, whose rich baritone and elegant, unshakable bearing made him a giant of the stage, screen and the civil rights movement &#151; often in tandem with his wife, Ruby Dee &#151; has died. He was 87.
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Former first lady, Lady Bird Johnson, has died in Texas at the age of 94, less than two weeks after leaving hospital, a family spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar  Hunt, the NFL pioneer who coined the term "Super Bowl," has  died at the age of 74.
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AUSTIN, Texas  - In a funeral at a church overlooking her beloved Texas hills, Lady Bird Johnson was remembered on Saturday as the devoted wife of former President Lyndon B. Johnson and a courageous advocate for social causes.
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Legislation that would end a long-running Texas turf war between airline powerhouses -- AMR Corp.'s American Airlines and Southwest Airlines -- was approved by the U.S. Congress on Friday and sent to President George W. Bush to be signed into law.