Ballet dancer Michaela Mabinty DePrince, who came to the US from an orphanage in war-torn Sierra Leone and performed on some of the world's biggest stages, has died, her family said in a statement.

a professional ballerina for the Boston Ballet and star of the 2011 First Position documentary who died at the age of 29. DePrince grew up as an orphan in Sierra Leone before being adopted by an ...

In a career that went from gracing the cover of Vogue to capturing the horrors of war zones and Nazi death camps, Lee Miller is remembered for defying expectations at every turn. Once a model, muse ...

Lee is a war film. It opens, ear-splittingly loud, with the smoking blasts of gunfire, as American war correspondent Lee Miller (Kate Winslet) darts between sandbags, the camera close to her body. The ...

Just a day after Columbia Pastor David Baker, Sr. was charged with aggravated sexual battery by Maury County Sheriff's Office, he has died of apparent suicide, according to Columbia Police Chief ...

died on Tuesday at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 87. Gray Sasser, his son, said the cause was apparently a heart attack. Never a charismatic senator, from 1977 to 1995, Mr. Sasser found his ...

The esteemed actor, who portrayed Darth Vader in 'Star Wars' and Mufasa in 'The Lion King,' died at his home in Pawling, N.Y. at age 93 on September 9 Mackenzie Schmidt is the Home and Travel ...

Her former boyfriend, Dickson Ndiema Marangach, died at 6.30 p.m. (11.30 a.m. ET) on Monday, said Philip Kirwa, chief executive officer of the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret in ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A 3-year-old girl has died after she was found unresponsive in a car in Buckeye. Buckeye PD was called after a report a girl was found unresponsive in a car parked outside ...

Waffle House president and CEO Walt Ehmer has died at 58, the Atlanta Police Foundation announced on Sunday. “It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Walt Ehmer, president and CE ...

Oscar-nominated actor James Earl Jones, who stuttered as a child, then burst forth to become one of America’s most recognized and articulate voices, has died. Jones died Monday morning at his ...

Will Jennings, an Oscar winner for “My Heart Will Go On” and “Up Where We Belong” and one of the best known lyricists in the contemporary songwriting community, has died, his longtime ...