NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, an outspoken, gravel-voiced Harlem Democrat who spent nearly five decades on Capitol Hill and was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, died Monday at age 94. His family confirmed the death in a statement provided by ...

WEST MONROE, La. (AP) — Phil Robertson, who turned his small duck calling interest in the sportsman’s paradise of northern Louisiana into a big business and conservative cultural phenomenon, died Sunday, according to his family. He was 79. Robertson’s family announced in December on ...

PARIS (AP) — Marcel Ophuls, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker whose landmark 1969 documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” shattered the comforting myth that most of France had resisted the Nazis during World War II — has died at 97. The German-born filmmaker, who was the son of ...

WARREN — Ruth A. Wright, age 89, entered into eternal rest Wednesday, May 21, 2025, at Hospice House in Poland. She was born July 27, 1935, in New Castle, Pa., the daughter of Isaiah and Tanza Thompson Wright. Ruth graduated from Northwestern High School in Detroit, Michigan, before moving ...

SOUTHINGTON — John Leroy Brandon Sr., 85, of Southington, peacefully passed away Friday, May 23, 2025, at home with family at his side. He was born Feb. 20, 1940, in Indiana, Pa., son of Leroy and Hazel Cunningham Brandon. John graduated in 1957 from the Indiana Joint High School Program, ...

NILES — Mr. William Barbato, 62, died Monday evening, May 19, 2025, at his residence with his family by his side, following an extended illness. He was born July 15, 1962, in Youngstown, a son of Stephen and Helen Patek Barbato. Bill was a 1980 graduate of Youngstown Chaney High School ...