VERO BEACH — Etta Lopresti, 20-year veteran of Indian River County Emergency Management Department, will be guest speaker at the Low Vision Support Group meeting June 12 at Florida Eye Institute in Vero Beach. Lopresti will discuss planning ...

The following January, they met Matisse, and Etta bought two drawings and shortly thereafter her first Matisse oil painting: the Fauve-period work Yellow Pottery from Provence. By the end of that year-and-a-half stay in Paris, Etta had acquired 28 works.

Dick ClarkThe Billboard Music Awards paid tribute to the late Donna Summer, Whitney Houston, Adam "MCA" Yauch and Robin Gibb during Sunday's event. But there were a few iconic names missing from the list of posthumous honorees — Dick Clark, Levon Helm ...

PEMBROKE, Va. — Laura Etta Milton Beck, 102 years old, of 111 Johnson Avenue, Pembroke, Va., died Monday, May 14, 2012 at Giles Community Hospital in Pearisburg, Va. She was the last member of her immediate family, being a daughter of the late John ...

Lionel Richie and the late Etta James will be inducted into the theater’s hall of fame during the June 4 gala. Soul Train creator Don Cornelius and songwriter Nick Ashford will also be honored posthumously. Richie’s first appearance at the ...

On May 9, Jessica Sanchez performed an Etta James classic on the "American Idol" top 4. The song called "Steal Away" was quite an undertaking for a singer who is only 16. Still, Sanchez was ready and willing when she mounted the AI stage to deliver this ...

A written reprimand is notionally a wrist-slap, but it cuts almost as deeply as Jetta's one-match penalty for striking in a separate incident. The 23-year-old Bomber is on record as the first nabbed in the crackdown this season on players trying to draw a ...

NORWOOD Etta Mae Courtney Norwood, age 83, passed away after a brief illness, on Tuesday, May 8, 2012. Beloved wife of John W. Norwood, Jr. Loving mother of John W. Norwood III (Kay) and James G. Norwood. Proud grandmother of Christi Norwood, Michelle Lynn ...

Gordy Pratt of Spearfish will perform for a dinner show at Etta’s Place in Sundance, Wyo., Saturday, May 19, as part of a Black Hills Concert Tour promoting his new CD, “rusty old american dream.” The title song tells the story of an old ...

With her make-up-free face, floral blouse, polyester pants and horn-rimmed glasses, character-comedienne Etta May offers a unique perspective on life.   Trading on a deep southern accent and the willingness to say anything that comes to her ...