Charles F. Luce, Ex-Chief of Con Ed, Is Dead at 90
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Mr. Luce headed Con Ed from 1967 to 1982, dealing with the oil crisis of the 1970s and New York Cityâs 1977 blackout.
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By Steve Maynard, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Mar. 3--What the founders of Calvary Lutheran Church thought would be a country parish when Dwight D. Eisenhower was the new president has become a congregation near the heart of Federal Way's downtown core.
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More than 20 years ago, federal Judge Bruce Van Sickle issued a landmark decision that led to the release of hundreds of mentally retarded people from two North Dakota institutions. Now, 87 years old and stricken with Alzheimer's, the retired judge is himself at the center of a legal fight to remove him from an institution.
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A judge in one of the nation's longest-running school desegregation cases released the Little Rock district from federal supervision Friday, nearly 50 years after President Eisenhower sent in troops to escort nine black students into all-white Central High.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and "court philosopher" of the Kennedy administration who remained a proud liberal even as others dared not use the word, has died. He was 89.
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Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, tireless liberal activist and confidant to President John Kennedy, has died at 89 of a heart attack.
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One year after an epic blackout left 50 million Americans and Canadians without power, Gordon van Welie, who oversees the New England electric grid, remains worried about transmission upgrades and a drought of power-plant development proposals. Welie, the 42-year-old chief executive of Independent System Operator New England, the Holyoke organization that runs the regional power markets and 8,000 miles of ...
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Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson, the wife of former US President Lyndon B Johnson, dies aged 94.
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October 22, 2004 -- Stephen C. Hilbert, founder and former CEO of life insurer Conseco Inc., said he plans to appeal a ruling that allows the company to foreclose on his mansion.
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Charles Nelson Reilly, the Tony Award winner who later became known for his ribald appearances on the "Tonight Show" and various game shows, has died. He was 76.
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Malcolm Summers, one of the closest  eyewitnesses to the John F. Kennedy assassination, has died of  a heart ailment at age of 80, a funeral home said on Monday.
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By Steve Vantreese, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Jun. 16-- -- Doug Travis' 60 years of service as a conservation educator ended the way he always said they would.   He died.
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The Rev. James Orange, a civil rights activist whose 1965 jailing sparked a fatal protest that ultimately led to the famed Selma-to-Montgomery march and the Voting Rights Act, died Saturday at Atlanta's Crawford Long Hospital, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said in a statement. He was 65.
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James Forman, a civil rights pioneer credited with organizing the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, has died of colon cancer, his son said Tuesday. He was 76.
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Lucent Technologies, the nation&#39;s biggest telecommunications equipment maker, said yesterday that the Securities and Exchange Commission was considering suing three former executives over possible
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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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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who polarized Chile during his violent 1973-1990 military rule and spent his old age fighting human rights, fraud and corruption charges, died on Sunday. He was 91.