obituaries

Remembering an Arizona grandmother and uncle who died of COVID

4:29pm January 10, 2022

Jasmyn Morton remembers her grandmother, Ruby Morton, and uncle, Joseph Morton, who both died from COVID-19 after attending a church event in March 2020, before masking and vaccines were common.

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Arts

Bob Saget pushed boundaries in his stand-up shows

4:29pm January 10, 2022

by Andrew Limbong

Bob Saget was found dead Sunday night at age 65. Many remember him for his roles on TV. But he was most at home by himself, on stage, telling often-raunchy and boundary-pushing jokes.

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Celebrities are taking to social media to remember actor and comedian Bob Saget, pictured here in 2019, who died on Sunday at age 65.

Arts

Bob Saget's co-stars and fellow comedians are remembering his humor and kindness

4:23pm January 10, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

John Stamos, Norman Lear and Whoopi Goldberg are among those paying tribute to the actor and comedian, who was found dead in an Orlando, Fla., hotel room on Sunday at age 65.

Robert Durst is sentenced on Oct. 14, 2021, in Los Angeles. Durst was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for the 2000 murder of Susan Berman.

National

Robert Durst, real estate heir, dies in prison at 78

2:40pm January 10, 2022

by The Associated Press

Durst was sentenced in October to life in prison for killing Susan Berman and indicted in November for second-degree murder in his wife Kathie's death.

Bob Saget, comedian and 'Full House' star, dies at 65

5:40am January 10, 2022

Bob Saget was well-known as the patriarch on ABC's hit TV show "Full House," and the host of "America's Funniest Home Videos."

Actor and comedian Bob Saget, pictured in November 2021, has died at age 65.

Actor and comedian Bob Saget dies at 65

10:23pm January 09, 2022

by James Doubek

Saget was a prominent presence on American television screens throughout the 1990s as the father Danny Tanner on Full House and the host of America's Funniest Home Videos.

Michael Lang, co-creator of the Woodstock Music & Art Festival

Music & Culture

Michael Lang, a co-creator of the Woodstock festival, has died at 77

11:52am January 09, 2022

by Hazel Cills

Lang helped make Woodstock a defining moment of the 1960s. He once called it "a test of whether people of our generation really believed in one another and the world we were struggling to create."

Remembering Sidney Poitier

6:11pm January 08, 2022

by Walter Ray Watson

Sidney Poitier, the great actor, director and activist who died this week at age 94, was revered for his magnetic presence, and for showing the humanity in ambitious, hopeful Black characters.

Politics & Government

The legacy of Lani Guinier

6:10pm January 08, 2022

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Spencer Overton, law professor at George Washington University Law School, about the legacy of Lani Guinier, a legal scholar in the field of voting rights.

Marilyn Bergman (L) with her husband and partner in lyric-writing, Alan Bergman (R)

Oscar-winning lyricist Marilyn Bergman has died at 93

5:05pm January 08, 2022

by Elizabeth Blair

Alongside her husband, Alan, she won two Academy Awards for Best Original Song for "The Windmills of Your Mind" and "The Way We Were."