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Architect Frank Gehry unveils his design for a Millennium Park band shell and seating area on Nov. 3, 1999, in Chicago. (Terry Harris/Chicago Tribune)

Frank Gehry, architect of Millennium Park pavilion and some of world’s most imaginative buildings, dies at 96

December 5, 2025 at 3:32 p.m.

Frank Gehry, who designed some of most imaginative buildings ever constructed and achieved a level of worldwide acclaim seldom afforded any architect, has died. He was 96.

FILE – Folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, from left, Mary Travers, Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow, perform at a Los Angeles benefit to aid to Cambodian refugees on Jan. 30, 1980. (AP Photo/George Brich, File)

Peter Yarrow of folk-music trio Peter, Paul and Mary dies at 86

January 7, 2025 at 3:20 p.m.

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil...

FILE – Phil Lesh, of The Grateful Dead, performs during a reunion concert in East Troy, Wis. on Aug. 3, 2002. Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead, died Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, at age 84. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Phil Lesh, founding member of Grateful Dead and influential bassist, dies at 84

October 25, 2024 at 4:03 p.m.

Grateful Dead founding member Phil Lesh has died at age 84.

FILE – Associated Press reporter Linda Deutsch is shown in Los Angeles, Calif., in 1978. (AP Photo, File)

Linda Deutsch, trial writer who had front row to courtroom history, dies at 80

September 2, 2024 at 9:32 a.m.

Linda Deutsch, a special correspondent for The Associated Press who for nearly 50 years wrote glittering first drafts of history from many of the nation’s most significant criminal and civil...

Then AP chief Middle East correspondent Terry Anderson, center, accompanied by his sister Peggy Say, left, and Madeleine Bassil, right, smiles broadly upon his arrival at the Wiesbaden Air Force hospital in Germany, Dec. 5, 1991, a day after being released by his abductors in Beirut, where he was held captive for almost seven years. Anderson died on April 21, 2024, at age 76. (Thomas Kienzle/AP)

Terry Anderson, AP reporter held captive for years, dead at 76

April 21, 2024 at 5:40 p.m.

Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly...

Valerie Harper, who played Rhoda on back-to-back hit sitcoms in the 1970s, dies at 80

August 31, 2019 at 12:46 p.m.

Valerie Harper, who scored guffaws, stole hearts and busted TV taboos as the brash, self-deprecating Rhoda Morgenstern on back-to-back hit sitcoms in the 1970s, has died. Longtime family friend Dan...

From second to left, Ed Sanders, Abbie Hoffman and Paul Krassner accuse police of harassment on March 24, 1969, during a protest at 388 E. 6th Street in Manhattan. An unidentified reporter sits at the far left.

1960s prankster Paul Krassner, who named Yippies, dies at 87

July 22, 2019 at 12:26 a.m.

Paul Krassner, the publisher, author and radical political activist on the front lines of 1960s counterculture who helped tie together his loose-knit prankster group by naming them the Yippies, died...

That law firm with the all-white partner class? It’s a sign we have more work to do

May 31, 2019 at 9:23 p.m.

When I was growing up, one of my heroes was George E. Johnson Sr., the legendary entrepreneur who built an empire from a line of beauty products for African-Americans and...

This Sept. 23, 2015 photo shows ground crew moring the Goodyear Blimp "Sprit of Innovation" as pilot Taylor Laverty brings the ship for a landing at Goodyear Airship Base in Carson, Calif. Goodyear is letting the helium out of the last of its fabled fleet of blimps on Tuesday, March 14, 2017.

Goodyear retires blimps but keeps familiar form in flight

June 5, 2018 at 7:40 p.m.

Goodyear has let the helium out of the last of its fabled fleet of blimps, but the company's flight program will continue. About two dozen employees were on hand early...

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