Tom Brokaw lifted a bottle of Rolling Rock beer in tribute to fallen colleague Tim Russert, part of a day of tributes that brought the nation's top journalists and politicians and even Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain together. ...more

June 19, 2008

NEW YORK - Tim Russert's chair was empty on "Meet the Press" on Sunday, two days after his unexpected death. ...more

June 15, 2008

An extraordinary outpouring of tributes to Tim Russert continued nonstop Saturday as people left flowers and notes at NBC's Washington bureau, the presidential candidates praised his fairness and his network planned a special edition of "Meet the Press" for today. ...more

June 15, 2008

Tim Russert, a fixture in American homes on Sunday mornings and election nights since becoming moderator of "Meet the Press" nearly 17 years ago, died Friday of a heart attack after collapsing at the Washington bureau of NBC News. He was 58. ...more

June 14, 2008

WASHINGTON - Tim Russert, NBC News' Washington bureau chief and the moderator of "Meet the Press," died Friday after collapsing in the bureau, NBC News said Friday. He was 58. ...more

June 13, 2008

Actor Wesley Snipes' defense team unexpectedly rested its case in his tax fraud trial Monday, cutting in half a proceeding once expected to last a month. ...more

January 29, 2008

The prosecution in the tax evasion trial of Wesley Snipes rested Friday, clearing the way next week for the defense and its potential list of celebrity witnesses, including Snipes. ...more

January 26, 2008

Campaign Memories The Iowa caucuses cause all the candidates running for president to move to New Hampshire where it was an interesting and refreshing experience for this writer to spend weekend after weekend there in Nashua and Manchester and other cities in 1984 to campaign as the "Buckeye Brigade" for John Glenn, my Muskingum College alumna and graduate in New Concord, Ohio, where he was reared. ...more

January 10, 2008

Michael Douglas has a new role on TV five nights a week. NBC chose the 63-year-old actor-producer as the announcer to introduce Brian Williams on the "Nightly News" each night. His recorded introduction was first heard last week. ...more

December 27, 2007

I am now 89 years old and feel this is my last chance to get the message of the advantages of gun control to the public. ...more

December 25, 2007