Steve Shickles

AP - Quotations from Paul Newman from The Associated Press archives:

AP - My managing editor at the Westport (Conn.) News in the summer of 1979 had but one goal — talking to Paul Newman — but when the time came, she was woefully unprepared.

AP - Reaction to the death of actor Paul Newman:

AP - When I was a kid, I never understood why my older sister got so giddy whenever we saw this middle-aged guy in tight jeans and a white T-shirt zipping around town on a bright blue motorcycle.

AP - Larry Birleffi, a television and radio broadcaster known for more than 50 years as the “Voice of the Wyoming Cowboys,” died Saturday. He was 90.

AP - Some critics’ and fellow filmmakers’ comments about Paul Newman:

AP - Miroslav Havel, for more than four decades the chief designer for Waterford Glass, has died at age 86.

AP - In obituaries Sept. 21 and Sept. 22 for Nancy Hicks Maynard, The Associated Press misstated her age in 1968 when she became the first black woman reporter for The New York Times.

AP - Nancy Hicks Maynard, the first black female reporter at The New York Times who, with her husband, became publisher of the Oakland Tribune and the founder a renowned institute that trains minority journalists, has died. She was 61.

AP - The zookeeper who gained fame for hand-rearing the beloved polar bear Knut was found dead in his Berlin apartment Monday.