Leona Helmsley, the self-styled hotel queen, whose prison term for income tax evasion and fraud was greeted with uncommon approval by a public who regarded her as a 1980s symbol of arrogance and greed, died Monday at her summer home in Greenwich, Conn. She was 87.
The cause of death was heart failure, said her [...]

Alexander C. Cushing, the founder of the Squaw Valley ski resort in California whose odds-defying landing of the 1960 Winter Olympics helped spur the popularity of skiing in the United States and put the Lake Tahoe region on the map as a world-class destination for winter sports, has died. He was 92.
Cushing, the chairman of [...]