Gregg Allman, the smoky-voiced B-3-playing Southern rock legend who soldiered on after his sibling's motorcycle crash nearly derailed the Allman Brothers Band, has died.
Col. Bruce Hampton, the prolific guitarist whose tireless energy and avant-garde roots helped make him a musical statesman of the emerging jam scene, has died at the age of 70.
A crowdfunding campaign to cover pioneering guitarist Allan Holdsworth's funeral expenses found thousands of fans chipping in to raise nearly six times the target amount.
Aaron Hernandez, the onetime star tight end for the New England Patriots, hanged himself in his prison cell, according to the Massachusetts Department of Correction.