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A Corning man is dead following a motorcycle crash late Friday night in the Village of Elmira Heights. Village police identified the victim as 28-year-old Tyler Booth, of Riverside Circle in Corning.
Roger G. Ackerman, who led Corning Inc. through dizzying change in the mid- to late 1990s, died July 30 following a long illness.
Corning's mother was born to American parents in Cawnpore, India, where her father Allan was serving as a missionary. [3] After the 1890 death of Allan Maxwell, her mother Ellen became a successful novelist and married U.S. Navy admiral Albert S. Barker. [4] Corning's father was from an Albany-area family prominent in business and politics. [5]
A premature obituary is a false reporting of the death of a person who is still alive. It may occur due to unexpected survival of someone who was close to death. Other reasons for such publication might be miscommunication between newspapers, family members, and the funeral home, often resulting in embarrassment for everyone involved.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
The Corning Journal merged with The Evening Leader in 1920. Ownership of the combined afternoon paper remained in the Underhill family until 1972, when it was sold to Howard Publications of California. [1] [3] The paper published as The Evening Leader until 1954, then as the Corning Leader until September 24, 1965, and as The Leader thereafter. [4]
The executive director of the Bill and Hillary Clinton Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, was shot Tuesday as federal agents arrived at his home to serve a search warrant, police said.
Erastus Corning (December 14, 1794 – April 9, 1872) was an American businessman and politician from Albany, New York.A Democrat, he was most notable for his service as mayor of Albany from 1834 to 1837, in the New York State Senate from 1842 to 1845, and in the United States House of Representatives from 1857 to 1859, and from 1861 to 1863.