Where does an artist who sculpts history’s most prominent women start? “The heart is where I begin,” says Loveland sculptor Jane DeDecker. “Sometimes I'll even layer that area so that you can kind of ...

Designed by French architect Louis Gilbert in the 1890s, the 12-bedroom villa—dubbed Le Beau Chêne—features elaborate Louis XIII-style stone and brickwork with turrets, Juliet balconies, and a ...

Hemingway called her “the most sensational woman anybody ever saw.” If you read any well-informed account of the life of le tout Paris between the wars, you’ll almost certainly run across her name.

Janelle Monáe may have gone to the future on hit album Dirty Computer, but they are heading back in time for their next project. The Antebellum actor-singer will be embodying legendary entertainer and ...

Villa Beau-Chêne, the 12-bedroom Parisian mansion where dancer and activist Josephine Baker made her home in the 1930s and ’40s, is on the market for €20.84 million (US$24.45 million). Baker, the ...

A Black woman will, for the first time, join other luminaries interred in France's Pantheon. That woman is entertainer Josephine Baker, and the honor will take place Tuesday. But critics in France say ...

Every day the ECHO print edition carries tributes and funeral notices for those who have lost a loved one recently and our ...

Young lives were stopped at a child’s birthday party Saturday leaving behind families, friends, classmates and communities ...

As the former vice president was honored at Washington National Cathedral on Thursday, many eyes were focused on who came — and who did not. By Peter Baker Peter Baker covered the Bush-Cheney White ...

The Daily Echo has published 20 death notices in the last seven days. Every week, the Daily Echo publishes death notices and funeral announcements from the families of loved ones who have passed away.

Josephine Yunk (Minneti), 98, passed away peacefully at home on November 24, 2025, with her family at her side. She was born ...

Janice Baker Byrne passed away Oct. 25, 2025. Janice grew up on a farm near Jamesburg with her father George Baker, a ...