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Bea Arthur, stage, film star of `Mame' and TV's `Maude' and `The Golden Girls,' dies at 86.

Police have no reason to suspect any suspicious circumstances in the case of a young actress found dead days after the show she starred in was canceled, but are continuing their investigation.

British reality TV celebrity Jade Goody died early Sunday morning following a public battle with cancer, her publicist has announced.

The first ambulance sent to a ski resort where actress Natasha Richardson suffered a fall that later proved to be fatal was turned ...

Natasha Richardson, a film star, Tony-winning stage actress and a member of the famed Redgrave acting family, has died. She was 45. Richardson died after suffering injuries in a fall on a ski slope at a Quebec resort about 80 miles northwest of Montreal. She was talking and joking after the fall, resort officials said.

Magazine claims terminally ill Jade Goody has passed — and readers aren’t happy

Paul Harvey, the news commentator and talk-radio pioneer whose staccato style made him one of the nation's most familiar voices, died Saturday in Arizona. He was 90.

Mr. Foss explored the byways of the avant-garde, focusing at different times on techniques from serialism and electronic music to Minimalism and improvisation.

Author John Updike, regarded as one of the greatest and most prolific writers in modern American letters, has died, his publicist said.

A Brazilian model whose feet and hands were amputated following a drug-resistant infection died early today, health officials said.