In the 1950s, photography was hardly considered art. If you wanted to be taken seriously as a photographer, you snapped mountains and models — not your neighbors. It also helped to be white. But Roy DeCarava, who died this week at the age of 89, turned all of that on its head.
The much-admired writer was best known for his work on the TV series M*A*S*H.
Thousands lined up to file past the senator's closed casket at the JFK Library in Boston.
North Attleborough, Mass. — Funeral services are being held this morning for Marine Captain Kyle Van De Giesen, killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan last month. Van De Giesen was from North Attleborough, where Thursday night, thousands of people, including his daughter and pregnant widow, crowded the football field for a candlelight vigil.
The Rev. Thomas P. O’Malley, who served as president of two Jesuit universities, Loyola Marymount and John Carroll, has died. He was 79.
The City of Cambridge lost an icon this week: master storyteller Brother Blue. For more than a decade, Brother Blue and his wife Ruth produced hundreds of hours of storytelling on Cambridge Community Television.
Longtime Boston community activist Robert Coard, who suffered from heart disease, only officially retired from his post as chief of Action for Boston Community Development on Sunday. He had been with the anti-poverty agency for 45 years.
NATICK, Mass. — Ten years ago, Kyle Van De Giesen, of North Attleboro, was the reluctant quarterback on Saint Anselm College’s new football team. Now he is gone, killed in a helicopter crash over Afghanistan last week. A remembrance from a reporter who interviewed him.
NEW YORK — Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire died Sunday, his assistant said. He was 79.
WASHINGTON — President Obama will award a posthumous Medal of Honor on Thursday to Army Sgt. First Class Jared Monti, who was shot to death in the Afghan mountains in 2006 while trying for the third time to save a wounded comrade.
DANBURY, Conn. — Mary Travers, one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died.
BOSTON — The longtime play-by-play voice of the Boston Bruins, died at his Barnstable home after suffering from cancer.
BOSTON — The late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s new memoir, “True Compass,” provides an inside look at some of the most formative times in the senator’s life. Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin was a long-time family friend of Ted Kennedy’s. She spoke to us from her home about the book and its insights into Kennedy’s life and legacy.
LOS ANGELES — Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewers’ hearts with “Dirty Dancing” and then broke them with “Ghost,” died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.
BOSTON — Only six Medals of Honor have been awarded for bravery during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, all of them posthumously. The latest will be awarded Thursday at the White House when the family of Army Sgt. First Class Jared Monti accepts his from President Obama.
BOSTON — Remembrances were held across Massachusetts on Friday to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray led a reading of of the names of Massachusetts victims at the State House in Boston.
BOSTON — Gennaro “Jerry” Angiulo, the former New England Mafia underboss who was the crime king of the North End, died Saturday at age 90. After serving 24 years in prison, he died a free man. WBUR’s David Boeri followed his career for four decades and has this remembrance.
BOSTON — Gennaro “Jerry” Angiulo, once a Boston Mafia kingpin who famously shouted, “I’ll be back before my pork chops get cold!” after the FBI arrested him in a North End restaurant, died Saturday. He was 90.
