Richard Sandomir

In his wide-ranging career, he also helped write Elvis Presley’s comeback special and appeared on an early version of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.”

A defensive tackle, he teamed with Joe Klecko, Mark Gastineau and Marty Lyons in the 1980s on a line that terrorized quarterbacks.

Allan Blye, a television comedy writer and producer who helped cement the Smothers Brothers' reputation for irreverence in the late 1960s and later

He won the Rookie of the Year and Cy Young Awards in 1981, when “Fernandomania” made him a household name and filled ballparks.

Fernando Valenzuela, the Mexican-born, left-handed pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers who enthralled baseball fans as a 20-year-old in the 1981 season with a quirky windup that produced his signature screwball, died on Tuesday. He was 63.

In Cave Creek, Arizona, she worked at an Old West attraction called Frontier Town, where she helped tourists pan for fool's gold and worked in a store, directing people to other Cave Creek attractions.

Tom Jarriel, a globe-trotting reporter and frequent Emmy honoree who was best known for his work on the ABC newsmagazine "20/20" but also served as

A journalist and analyst, he was driven to hold oil companies accountable. Earlier, he was on the storied boat Greenpeace when he and others tried to halt a nuclear test.

He wrote the Press Clips column for The Village Voice, held top jobs at Inc. magazine and Slate, and wrote a book about how the startup magazine The Industry Standard fizzled.

James Ledbetter, a former media critic who wrote the Press Clips column for The Village Voice in the 1990s, led Inc. magazine as its editor in chief and started an online financial technology newsletter, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 60.