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Benjamin A. Gilman, a longtime Republican congressman from New York who chaired the House International Relations Committee and who helped arrange prisoner exchanges, died Dec. 17 at a veterans hospital in Wappingers Falls, N.Y. He was 94. Richard Garon, a former chief of staff, said he had been in declining health after surgery to repair a damaged hip. Mr. Gilman, a World War II veteran and former state legislator, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1972.
Ohio State University in Columbus will host the memorial service for Glenn, who died on Dec. 8 at age 95. The service, entitiled "John Glenn: Celebrating a Life of Service," will begin at 2 p.m. EST and will be streamed live on NASA TV . You can also watch the webcast here , courtesy of NASA TV.
Everett Walter Cleveland died peacefully at home on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016. He was born in Cleveland on April 6, 1930, the son of the late Chauncey Gould Cleveland.
In this June 17, 2016 file photo, Erika Marble visits the gravesite of Edward Martin III, her fiancA and father of her two children, in Littleton, N.H. The 28-year old died Nov. 30, 2014, from an overdose of the opioid Fentanyl. Drug overdose deaths increased by 33 percent in the past five years across the U.S. as of 2016.
An authentic hero and genuine American icon, Glenn died this afternoon surrounded by family at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus after a remarkably healthy life spent almost from the cradle with Annie, his beloved wife of 73 years, who survives. He, along with fellow aviators Orville and Wilbur Wright and moon-walker Neil Armstrong, truly made Ohio first in flight.
John Glenn, the first US astronaut to orbit the Earth and who later had a long career in the US Senate, has died aged 95. The last survivor of the original Mercury 7 astronauts died at the James Cancer Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, where he had been treated for more than a week. Glenn was the third US astronaut in space and the first of them to get into orbit.
The death toll from a fire that tore through a warehouse hosting a late-night dance party climbed on Sunday as firefighters pain... . A woman cries near the site of a warehouse fire that started Friday night and killed dozens, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016, in Oakland, Calif.
Kennedy Center Honoree Al Pacino shakes hands with U.S. Marine Corps 2nd Lt. Kelley Johnson following the State Department for the Kennedy Center Honors gala dinner, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016, in Washington.
For a half-century after the deadliest submarine disaster in U.S. history, Navy Capt. Paul "Bud" Rogers struggled with feelings that it should have been him - and not his last-minute replacement - on the doomed voyage of the USS Thresher in which 129 men died.
New Albany was the scene of an unusual ceremony this past week as law enforcement officers gathered to honor a nearly-forgotten Union Countian who died in the line of duty 85 years ago. The national office of the Society had apparently come across Ingle's case during research and asked that a flag be placed the Ingle's gravesite.
The grandson of Illinois U.S. Rep. Danny Davis has died after being shot and killed in a home invasion in Chicago. Chicago Police spokeswoman Officer Michelle Tannehill told the Chicago Tribune that 15-year-old Jovan Wilson died Friday night at the scene in the Englewood neighborhood on the city's South Side.
In this Nov. 5, 2015 file photo, "NewsHour" co-anchor Gwen Ifill attends The Women's Media Center 2015 Women's Media Awards in New York. Ifill died on Monday, Nov. 14, 2016, of cancer, PBS said.
Miller VanMetre died peacefully on November 7, 2016, at the age of, 79, while at home with his wife and step-granddaughter in Martinsburg. Garry is survived by his wife, Barbara Feltner; his step-daughter, Julie Feltner, and her fiance, Mike McCullough; and his step-granddaughter, Amber Feltner; as well as his nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.
It's like I found out that, retroactively, there had been a lot fewer jokes in the world in 2016. They turned out not just to not be funny, but not to be jokes.
The Associated Press announced that Donald Trump won Kentucky's eight electoral college votes just before 7:00 p.m. Senator Rand Paul was re-elected. At 7:54 p.m., his wife Kelley Paul took the stage to introduce her husband before his acceptance speech.
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul, who made an early run for the presidency, instead is heading back to Washington for a second term. Paul defeated Democrat Jim Gray, the mayor of Lexington.