Jerry Ostensoe was known for his soothing voice and the songs he wrote telling the stories of the people and places he knew in western Minnesota. Osetensoe, 71, died Monday at his Granite Falls home.
Peggy Sue Gerron was 17 years old, a senior at a Catholic girls school, when the world heard her name radiate through the airwaves over and over on its way to rock 'n' roll immortality.
Hubert de Givenchy, a French designer whose fashions influenced haute couture in the 1950s and '60s and transformed his close friend, actress Audrey Hepburn, into a style legend, died March 10 at 91.The death was announced by artistic director of...
NEW YORK - Billionaire philanthropist David Rockefeller, former head of Chase Manhattan Corp and patriarch of one of the most famous and influential American families, died on Monday, March 20, a family spokesman said. He was 101.Rockefeller, who...
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Peter Dae Lewis,76, of Bakersfield died Thursday, Sept. 29.Lewis was born Nov. 9, 1939, to Leland and Sally Lewis in Vinton, Iowa.His family moved to Bakersfield in 1943. He graduated from East Bakersfield High School in 195...
MOORHEAD - Vic Fergen used to have a tough time leaving work each day at his namesake bar, Vic's Lounge in the Moorhead Center Mall here. On his way out, he'd always see friends who wanted to chat or buy him a drink.One of his sons said the exper...
FARGO -- A former city attorney here who was known for his rock solid knowledge of Fargo's laws died Monday, Aug. 1, at the age of 76 in Villa Maria Nursing Home in Fargo. Garylle Stewart, who went by Gary, was the city's attorney for 38 years. H...
PERHAM, Minn. - Mildred L. Johnson, a trailblazing North Dakota attorney who became the first woman appointed to the North Dakota Board of Higher Education, died Friday at the age of 96.
LONDON - British actor Bob Hoskins, whose roles ranged from London gangsters to FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover and who starred opposite a cast of cartoon characters in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," has died after a bout of pneumonia, his publicist said o...
FARGO - Friends and former colleagues here are mourning the unexpected loss of a former Fargo North Spartan, city commissioner and Great Plains Software executive.
