Robert McFadden

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Robert McFadden

George H. Ryan, the Illinois governor who reopened a national debate over capital punishment in 2000 by imposing a moratorium on death-row executions in his state, and who later went to prison for taking bribes in an earlier role as the Illinois secretary of state, died Friday at his home in Kankakee, Ill. He was 91. His death was confirmed by his son, George H.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Robert McFadden

Herbert J. Gans, an eminent sociologist who studied the communities and cultural bastions of America up close and shattered popular myths about urban and suburban life, poverty, ethnic groups, and the news media, died Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 97. His death was confirmed by his son, David.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Robert McFadden

A leading sociologist, he explored American society up close - living in a Levittown at one point - to gain insight into issues of race, class, the media and even the Yankees. Herbert J. Gans, an eminent sociologist who studied the communities and cultural bastions of America up close and shattered popular myths about urban and suburban life, poverty, ethnic groups and the news media, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 97. His death was confirmed by his son, David Gans.

1 month ago | pressdemocrat.com | Robert McFadden

Theodore E. McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington and the highest American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church to be accused of sexually abusing minors and seminarians — a charge that stripped him of his ministry, his place in the College of Cardinals and his priesthood, reducing him to the status of a layman — died on Friday. He was 94. Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, archbishop of Washington, confirmed the death in a statement, which provided no further details.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Robert McFadden

Theodore E. McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington and the highest American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church to be accused of sexually abusing minors and seminarians - a charge that stripped him of his ministry, his place in the College of Cardinals and his priesthood, reducing him to the status of a layman - died on Friday. He was 94. Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, archbishop of Washington, confirmed the death in a statement, The Associated Press and The Washington Post reported.