The Tennessee whiskey, long snubbed by connoisseurs and collectors, is suddenly grabbing attention with a series of special releases.

A tough but pragmatic negotiator, he led his union through decades of tumult, then helped drive through the president’s infrastructure plans.

He was among the first to offer a comprehensive explanation, and a possible solution, for the country’s rising health care costs.

In the wake of hurricanes and the BP oil spill, he revolutionized his industry by turning from wild catches to cage farming his precious bivalves.

As a founder of Adobe Systems, he oversaw the development of software and systems that made modern personal computing possible.

She collapsed a day after the police raided her home and the offices of The Marion County Record, a weekly paper in Kansas.

His salon on the penthouse level of Bergdorf Goodman drew regulars like Martha Stewart, Princess Diana, Ethel Kennedy and Hillary Clinton.

Hired to run a troubled Mississippi affiliate of NBC, he turned it into a respected and highly profitable operation, with a more diverse staff.

His houses, which dot the Hamptons and other parts of the New York region, include a residence featured in “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

She starred alongside the likes of Elvis Presley and Jerry Lewis. But she wanted to direct and write, and she felt held back by industry...