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Central New York is mourning the passing of two local legends who helped restore a 160-year-old cider mill to its former glory.

The obituary of Belmont, New York native Lawrence Pfaff Sr. that his son published has gone viral, in a scathing example of how NOT to be remembered.

One Upstate New York man left nothing back in a recent obituary for his estranged father.

If you drove through Utica last night, you may have noticed the Adirondack Bank Center was lit red. There's a very sad reason why.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Lipton, longtime host of “Inside the Actors Studio,” has died. His wife Kedakai Lipton tells The Associated Press he died Monday in his New York home from bladder cancer. He was 93. Lipton interviewed hundreds of master actors and Hollywood luminaries for nearly 25 years on Bravo's “Inside the Actors Studio,” including Paul Newman, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro and Glenn Cl

Joseph Wilson, the former ambassador who set off a political firestorm by disputing U.S. intelligence used to justify the 2003 Iraq invasion, died Friday.

casek, who sang, played guitar and wrote most of the band's songs, and Benjamin Orr, who played bass and also sang, were ex-hippie buddies who formed The Cars in Boston in 1976. They were a decade older than many of their modern-rock compatriots but became one of the most essential American bands of the late 1970s and 1980s.

The family of rock Star Eddie Money says he has died at 70.

T. Boone Pickens, who amassed a fortune as an oil tycoon and corporate raider and gave much of it away as a philanthropist, has died. He was 91.

Jack Whitaker, whose Hall of Fame broadcasting career ranged from the first Super Bowl to Secretariat's Triple Crown died Sunday morning, CBS reported.