NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Jerry Reed, a singer who became a good ol' boy actor in car-chase movies such as "Smokey and the Bandit," has died of complications from emphysema at 71. His longtime booking agent, ...

Loretta June Reed, age 79, died Sunday, April 5, 2026, at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Buckhannon, West Virginia. She was born December 7, 1946, a daughter of the late Van and Gladys Lake Squires. She is ...

Jerry Trainor, the man behind the “iCarly” character Spencer Shay, joined students for a kooky evening at Coffman Union on Tuesday, hosted by the University of Minnesota’s Student Unions and ...

“Every move he made was to entertain and make the world more fun,” country singer Brad Paisley said after Reed’s death in 2008. “Because he was such a great, colorful personality with his acting and ...

Chris Pizzello / AP Amy Madigan, a trustee of Reed College in Portland, won best supporting actress at the 98th Academy Awards in Los Angeles Sunday for her portrayal of the great aunt of a young boy ...

Join 15,000+ readers getting trusted local news and can’t-miss events every week. It’s free. Sign up now. Geraldine Reed Brown, of Montclair, who had a rich and varied career as an attorney, ...

MANASSAS, Va., Feb. 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At Unity Reed High School, the public safety specialty program is preparing students for high-stakes, lifesaving careers—where every second matters.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A woman who was set on fire on a CTA Blue Line train back in November is now out of the hospital. She thanked hospital staff for their care as she celebrates this milestone in her ...

Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Critically Acclaimed JESUS HOPPED THE ‘A’ TRAIN HOUSTON, TX—4th Wall Theatre opens its eighth season with the Houston premiere of what the NY Times recently named one of the 25 ...

This ensemble is a group of Berklee College of Music students dedicated to the music of Jerry Reed, as performed by Chet Atkins and Reed. Reed (1937–2008) went from studying Atkins’s approach to ...

Lawrence Reed, the man accused of setting a young woman on fire on a Chicago Transit Authority train this past November, appeared in court Tuesday. Reed is charged federally in the Nov. 17 attack on ...

A grand jury this week indicted a man on charges of setting a young woman on fire on a Chicago Transit Authority train last month, and also setting a fire outside City Hall. In an indictment returned ...