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The two occupants of a car that exploded Wednesday at the US-Canada Rainbow Bridge border crossing are dead, a law enforcement source told CNN. The incident occurred shortly before noon when a car coming from the Canadian side of the border on the bridge connecting Canada to New York State went...

Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, the devoted wife of the nation's 39th president and a tireless advocate for mental health care, has died. The Carter Center confirmed that she died Sunday morning at her home in Plains, Georgia, at the age of 96. The former first lady and former President...

Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded Apollo 8’s historic Christmas 1968 flight that circled the moon 10 times and paved the way for the lunar landing the next year, has died. He was 95. Borman died Tuesday in Billings, Montana, according to NASA. Borman also led troubled Eastern Airlines in...

Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown, an unstoppable running back who retired at the peak of his brilliant career to become an actor as well as a prominent civil rights advocate during the 1960s, has died. He was 87. A spokeswoman for Brown’s family said he passed away peacefully in his Los...

Gordon Lightfoot, Canada's legendary folk singer-songwriter known for “If You Could Read My Mind" and "Sundown” and for songs that told tales of Canadian identity, died on Monday. He was 84. Representative Victoria Lord said the musician died at a Toronto hospital. His cause of death was not...

Bert I. Gordon, the sci-fi director who aimed to terrify drive-in denizens of the 1950s and ’60s with low-budget films featuring colossal creatures, shrinking humans and radioactive monsters, has died. He was 100. His B-movie résumé included: The Cyclops (1957), The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)...

Does anyone have a fitness goal or challenge that you are trying to meet this year? I may post some additional goals later, but my are: Track my total miles for the year. I keep track of individual rides, but it has been a few years since I kept track of my yearly total. Average 10 miles...

I hope everyone is having a great holiday!

Aviation pioneer and retired Air Force hero Joe Kittinger has died at the age of 94. Kittinger, who was born in Tampa in 1928 and raised in Orlando, set a record for the longest skydive in 1960 when he jumped from a hot-air balloon at a height greater than 19 miles as a U.S. Air Force captain...

Jules Bass, the animator, producer, director and composer whose work included stop-motion holiday television specials like “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Frosty the Snowman” and “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town,” died at the age of 87 on Tuesday at an assisted living facility in Rye, New York...

The local Makerspace has a single account that is supposed to forward emails to the board members of the space. Earlier this year, one of the members tried to upgrade the method used, and it hasn't worked correctly since. A solution through Google mostly worked except that it would not forward...

Legendary comic book artist Neal Adams, whose career spanned nearly 60 years and included revitalizing Batman and the Joker for DC as well as decades of work for artists’ rights and a commitment to social relevance in his work, died early in the morning yesterday, according to his...

William Hurt, the Oscar-winning actor of Broadcast News, Body Heat and The Big Chill, has died. He was 71. Hurt's son, Will, said in a statement that Hurt died Sunday of natural causes. He said Hurt died peacefully, among family. Deadline first reported Hurt's death. (NPR)

Playing with Conway's Game of Life

Douglas Trumbull... helped drive effects on films like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, each time changing the field in ways that would resonate for decades. After an incredible life and career, Trumbull lost a two year battle with cancer this week and...

Monkees singer and guitarist Michael Nesmith, a pop visionary who penned many of the group’s most enduring songs before laying the groundwork for country-rock with the First National Band in the early Seventies, died Friday from natural causes. He was 78. (Rolling Stone)

A treasured rite of the holiday season turned into a scene of bloody, violent mayhem late Sunday afternoon as a vehicle plowed into the Waukesha Christmas Parade, leaving more than 20 people injured, including children, and shaking the community, authorities said. There were some fatalities but...