Milestones

DIED

A 22-year veteran of the British soap opera EastEnders, Wendy Richard, 65, endured years of tabloid gossip (sometimes fueled by her husbands). Despite alleged attempts by producers to write her character off the show, Richard, who received a cancer diagnosis in 1996, didn’t leave until 2006, saying it was “time to move on.”

• He took his first puff at age 9 and later modeled in Winston cigarette ads. But after being diagnosed with lung cancer, Alan Landers, 68, devoted his life to educating others about the dangers of smoking.

• The Chicago Bulls franchise wouldn’t be what it is without its first coach, Johnny (Red) Kerr, 76, who over his long career also served as the team’s business manager and as a radio and TV sportscaster.

• “Writing is the thing that props me up,” Horton Foote, 92, the playwright and screenwriter, once said. He was one of the oldest working writers in Hollywood and first gained renown for his Oscar-winning scripts for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and Tender Mercies (1983).

WARRANT ISSUED

A suspect has been named seven years after the remains of 24-year-old U.S. government intern Chandra Levy were found. On March 2 a judge signed a warrant for the arrest of Salvadoran immigrant Ingmar Guandique, 27, who is already serving time for assault.

ENDED

Just two months shy of its 150th anniversary, the E.W. Scripps–owned Rocky Mountain News, Colorado’s oldest newspaper, ceased publication on Feb. 27, becoming the latest victim of a troubled media market.