Terry Funk, one of the innovators of professional wrestling, died on Aug. 23 at the age of 79. The WWE Hall of Famer came into the wrestling world in the mid-'60s and continued some semblance of ...

Gary Martin, a veteran Sony Pictures executive who served as president of studio operations and product for 32 years, has died, according to a family spokesperson. Martin was 79. Martin died on ...

A feminist provocateur, she went on to write about the gay rights movement and transformative figures like the first two female Supreme Court justices. By Penelope Green Linda R. Hirshman, a union ...

Around this time every year, Karen Davis could often be found in Washington, D.C., handing out leaflets proclaiming, “Turkeys Are Too Neat to Eat.” When she began campaigning for the rights of ...

The drug rehabilitation program in California had started out as a nonprofit run by a former alcoholic who preached tough love. Over the years, it evolved into a religious cult called the Church ...

Gary O. Martin, a former Sony Pictures executive who served as president of studio operations and production for several decades, died of natural causes on Thursday at his home in Sherwood Forest ...

It's time again for Akron to honor Bill Turner and his basketball legacy. One of the greatest hoops players to ever come out of the Rubber City, Turner died on Oct. 14 at the age of 79, his wife ...

Karen Davis, an academic turned animal rights activist who campaigned on behalf of chickens, turkeys and other barnyard fowl, arguing for the dignity of “nonhuman animals,” as she put it ...

A fierce campaigner, Ms. Davis expanded the reach of the animal rights movement by advocating for chickens, turkeys and other farmyard fowl. By Trip Gabriel Karen Davis, an animal-rights activist ...