Horton Foote R.I.P.

NEW YORK – Playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote, who movingly portrayed the broken dreams of common people in "The Trip to Bountiful," "Tender Mercies" and his Oscar-winning screen adaptation of "To Kill a Mockingbird," died Wednesday in Connecticut, Paul Marte, a spokesman for Hartford Stage, said. He was 92.
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Jazz Trumpet Legend Freddie Hubbard-R.I.P.

Jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, who played on some of the most notable records of the 1960s and '70s, died today in a Los Angeles-area hospital, where he had been since suffering a heart attack last month. The Grammy-winner was 70.
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