Milestones

DIED

Tom Keith, 64, inventive sound-effects man for radio’s A Prairie Home Companion for 30 years; Keith worked with just his voice and an array of props.

CONVICTED

Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson’s personal physician, of involuntary manslaughter in the pop star’s medication-related death in 2009.

DIED

Heavy D (Dwight Arrington Myers), 44, front man for the hip-hop group Heavy D and the Boyz. Famed for the theme song for the TV show In Living Color, he recorded three platinum albums and 12 Top 10 singles.

UPHELD

President Obama’s health care law, by the U.S. Court of Appeals in the D.C.; five appeals courts have now ruled in favor of the law and one against.

BLOCKED

By a federal judge, graphic FDA warning labels on cigarette packs; the judge said the images constitute advocacy, which may violate rights of free speech.

DIED

Norman Ramsey, 96, Nobel Prize–winning physicist. By examining atoms and molecules, he devised an exact way to keep time, which led to the atomic clock.