Judge Jack Weinstein on Monday moved to inactive status, closing out a 53-year career. A highlight of his law career was working with Thurgood Marshall on the legal arguments that led the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in Brown v. Board of Education that school segregation was illegal. He was named a federal judge in 1967, and on his retirement was the last appointee of President Lyndon Johnson still on the bench.

The renowned tough guy did his prison time without ever turning on his mob associates following a 1967 conviction that was widely considered both inside and outside organized crime as a set-up.

In the late 1970s, a harbor seal named Hoover began catcalling passersby at the New England Aquarium in a thick Maine accent. A new study confirms seals’ uncanny ability to copy human speech.

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NBA greats Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett are part of the 2020 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame class.

Lakers legend Magic Johnson and Clippers coach Doc Rivers are among those participating in an auction that's raising millions to help feed people during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Vin Scully, 92, has been released from Los Robles Hospital following a fall Tuesday at his home, according to a Dodgers team statement Saturday.

McCoy Tyner, jazz piano legend who played with Coltrane, dead at 81

Jeff Grosso, a skateboarder from Arcadia who rose to the greatness in the 1980s before falling to the depths of despair and making a comeback, died Tuesday at 51.

Thai Thanh, who reigned over Vietnamese American popular music for nearly six decades, died in March. Her legions of fans have mourned from home.

Celebrity couple John Legend and Chrissy Teigen have bought a newly built home in West Hollywood for $5.1 million.

Longtime Cowboy Jason Witten just put his Texas mansion on the market for $4.685 million.

Calling all idle Hollywood creative types and wannabe filmmakers. Roger Corman, 94, challenges you to make a short film for his Quarantine Film Festival.

In "The True History of the Kelly Gang," director Justin Kurzel's fourth and best feature, George MacKay stars as 19th-century Australian bushranger Ned Kelly.

Watch the late, great Jessye Norman sing Brahms with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Stars from the Doors to Prince recorded at Sunset Sound. Now, the studio is closed for the first time in 60 years, joining hundreds of others shuttered across L.A.

Rangers have been criticised by Celtic fan Sir Rod Stewart but Gers great Ally McCoist has hit back at the music legend.

Leeds United legend Trevor Cherry has died suddenly aged 72.

Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney has hit back at Health Secretary Matt Hancock.

RANGERS legend Ally McCoist has hailed sub Kyle Lafferty after the stunning win over St Johnstone.

LITTLE RICHARD, the rock and roll singer, has died at the age of 87 - his son Danny Penniman confirmed.

ALAN TITCHMARSH, TV legend and much loved gardener, once revealed his top tips to get the very best strawberries grown at home.

Mike Tyson has talked possibly coming out of retirement to fight in charity exhibition match-ups.

Though he never won an entrant title, Gene Nolen was known in the USAC racing world as one of the series' best owners.

The series includes 26 drivers ages 40 and up who either made their names in racing decades ago or are still in the cockpit.

Three boys grew up knowing someone named Roger Brown was their grandfather. Then, one day, they began to understand the legacy of the Pacers legend.

Baylen, Bowen and Callen get a NBA-level call as they take to their lowered rim for a contest

Sir Stirling Moss recalls the two serious Formula One crashes that nearly cost him his life.

Artist Mort Drucker, who inspired generations of humorists with his Mad magazine film and TV parodies across five decades, passed away Wednesday.

"Star Wars: The Clone Wars" is coming to an end on Disney Plus, but voice actress Ashley Eckstein helped assure that Ahsoka will live on.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren embraced her latest celebrity endorsements. "Looking forward to the day @chrissyteigen doesn't have to fight with the president of the United States on Twitter," she said.

Little Richard, whose outrageous showmanship and lightning-fast rhythms intoxicated crowds in the 1950s with hits like 'Tutti Frutti' and 'Long Tall Sally', has died.

The Gothamist is reporting the sad news that Gem Spa, the iconic NY corner store that has been a fixture at St. Marks Place and Second Avenue for around 100 years is being forced to shutter its doors and windows for the last time. The Spa has been struggling to keep up with increasing rent prices and COVID-19 has apparently proven to be the final nail in its coffin.

"It’s where Robert Mapplethorpe bought Patti Smith an egg cream on the day they met. It’s on the back cover of the New York Dolls’ 1973 debut (and where, according to lore, Johnny Thunders and others went for post-heroin sugar fixes between sets at CBGB). Before that, it was where Abbie Hoffman gathered Yippies to rain money on the New York Stock Exchange. It’s where Allen Ginsberg, Ted Berrigan, and other neighborhood poets went to pick up the Sunday New York Times on Saturday nights (and which was inevitably commemorated in their poems)."

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Closing 2019, reggae star Buju Banton celebrated the inking of a partnership deal with international entertainment group Roc Nation, founded by rapper Jay-Z. The artiste is on the promotional pathway for his 2020 album, Upside Down, which will be...

One of rock and roll's founding fathers, Little Richard, has died. He was 87 years-old.  According to Rolling Stone Magazine, his death was confirmed by his son, Danny Penniman. The cause of his death is not yet known.  Richard,...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s been over a decade since reggae king Buju Banton and R&B star John Legend collaborated on a song, and the Grammy winners have reunited for a new track. Banton and Legend released the easygoing love song...

Frank Robinson, a trailblazing figure who was Major League Baseball's first African-American manager and one of its greatest players during a career that spanned 21 seasons, died Thursday after a prolonged illness. He was 83.

Frank Robinson, a trailblazing figure who was Major League Baseball's first African-American manager and one of its greatest players during a career that spanned 21 seasons, died Thursday after a prolonged illness. He was 83.

Reconnecting with mentors, friends, coaches and professors, these football greats reflected on the experiences that they carried with them well beyond their college years. While they all share different stories, their journeys to the NFL were each met with adversity, and whether on or off the field, these obstacles served as tests for each individual athlete to overcome. These challenges made them stronger, earning them valuable lessons and helping them create special connections with the university they will always call ‘home.’

How the beloved figure has become a lightning rod in a heated environmental debate

Two years before the Carthaginian general crossed the Alps, he won a decisive victory at the Battle of the Tagus

Nearly 2,000 years ago, women who rode horseback and practiced archery may have roamed the steppes of Mongolia

Rumored to withstand the weight of a full grown man, their spines have now been studied in unprecedented detail

Don Shula, who won the most games of any NFL coach and led the Miami Dolphins to the only perfect season in league history, died Monday at his home, the team said. He was 90.

Twenty-five years after meeting Johnny Cash, a Newfoundland musician is trying to track down a photo of the pair.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It's been over a decade since reggae king Buju Banton and R&B star John Legend collaborated on a song, and the Grammy winners have reunited for a new track.Banton and Legend released the easy-going love song Memories on yesterday. It is the first single from Banton's upcoming album Upside Down, his first studio project since 2010's Before the Dawn.

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Andre Harrell's death was first announced by D-Nice during his "Club Quarantine" sets on Instagram Friday night.