Doug Crane Dies: Animator For Terrytoons, Hanna-Barbera, MTV Was 85

Richard Barnett, a Donald Trump supporter who went viral for sitting at Nancy Pelosi‘s desk during the recent siege at the U.S. Capitol, has been arrested.

U.S. Capitol police officer Brian D. Sicknick has died, marking the fifth person to pass away amid the violent takeover of the building by Trump supporters on Wednesday (January 6).

Neil Sheehan, a Pulitzer Prize winner and the New York Times journalist who obtained the Pentagon Papers, has died.

pic.twitter.com/fIDoZdeyxt#ESSENCE is saddened to report the passing of famed author, Eric Jerome Dickey. Dickey was an ESSENCE and New York Times best-selling author best known for his novels about contemporary African-American life.

A teenage girl from Arizona and her boyfriend have been charged with murder after the slaying of a 36-year-old woman last month.  Ottilia Piros, the girl's mother, was shot and killed at her home in Greece, N.Y., in December 2020.

Janet W. Lee Author Eric Jerome Dickey died Sunday in Los Angeles due to complications from a long illness, a representative from his publisher Penguin Random House confirmed to Variety.

Tanya Roberts died Monday night, a day after her publicist mistakenly announced her death.

Michael Keaton is coming back as Batman, but only for one film.

Michael Keaton is coming back as Batman, but only for one film.

The New York nurse who became the first in the U.S. to receive a dose of the Pfizer and BioNTech coronavirus vaccine last month received her second shot on Monday, becoming one of the first in the country to be fully inoculated.

told the New York Times. She was 85.Silver was outspoken about her experiences confronting sexism, misogyny and anti-Semitism within the entertainment industry.“I came of age for film at a time when sexism was pretty strong.

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorJoan Micklin Silver, who forged her own way as a female director in the 1970s and ’80s and helmed seven features including “Crossing Delancey” and “Hester Street,” died Thursday in Manhattan. She was 85.Her daughter, Claudia Silver, told the New York Times the cause was vascular dementia.The 1975 independent film “Hester Street” was the story of a Jewish immigrant couple in the 1890s.

Eli Countryman Phyllis McGuire, the lead singer and last remaining member of the 1950s trio known as the McGuire Sisters, died in her Las Vegas home on Tuesday, according to The New York Times. She was 89.McGuire’s death was confirmed to the Times by the Palm Eastern Mortuary, but no cause of death was announced.The singer’s path to fame began when she and her two sisters, Christine and Dorothy McGuire, appeared on “Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts” in 1952, winning the contest.

For one New York-based single mother of young children, who suffers from respiratory problems, Christmas came early when she learned through word-of-mouth that – despite conflicting information as to who was eligible to receive the coronavirus vaccine – her underlying condition meant she could indeed be inoculated at a Brooklyn-based health clinic. "I was so relieved and grateful," the mother and working professional, who requested anonymity for privacy reasons, told Fox News.

Lee Wallace, who starred in several Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, died Dec. 20 in New York after along illness.

Unlikely friends Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg are getting in the Christmas spirit! The odd couple reunited virtually on December 14 for a Salesforce corporate event, in which they gave a cookie decorating tutorial. The 79-year-old TV host broadcast from her home in New York, while the rapper, 49, showed off his baking skills from his home in California.

Also Read: Surviving Bee Gee Barry Gibb Says He'd Rather Have His Brothers 'Back Here and No Hits at All'Released in 1977, just over a year after serial killer David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz terrorized New York during the summer of 1976 with eight unprovoked slayings across the city, the song was produced during the time, aptly described by Irish writer Dermot McEvoy, when “New York’s grime was golden” and the lyrics reflect the uncertain state of things in America’s biggest city.In fact, the Bee