Media Decoder Blog: Dick Clark, New Year's Eve Icon, Is Dead at 82

Dick Clark, ?America?s Oldest Teenager,? died today at age 82 of a heart attack. He had toughed it out for eight years after debilitating strokes. But he refused to allow them to slow him down or kick him off television. Despite his enormous physical deficiencies, Clark still appeared annually on ?New Years? Rockin Eve,? the ...

The music industry lost one of its most influential members today when Dick Clark passed away at age 82. Clark's agent issued a statement saying the venerable host died of a "massive heart attack."

KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan policewoman walked into a high-security compound in Kabul Monday and killed an American contractor with a single bullet to the chest, the first such shooting by a woman in a spate of insider attacks by Afghans against their foreign allies. Afghan officials who provided details identified the attacker as police Sgt. Nargas, a mother of four with a clean record. The shooting was outside the police headquarters in a walled compound which houses the governor’s office, courts and a prison in the heart of the capital.

The man who helped turn rock & roll mainstream through "American Bandstand" and later became a TV fixture on New Year's Eve, Dick Clark, has left us. But the Hollywood legend lives on in a new social video game from Entertainment . Clark serves as the virtual host of Retro World, a new Facebook game ...

By Jason Cimpl: New Year's Eve may usher in a new year, but this holiday's customs stay constant.For example, the TV lineup rarely changes. Sports take over our televisions. For most households, college football will be on for what seems like days on end. The NBA, which dominates Christmas Day, has tried to wiggle its way into New Year's … without the same success.

? Who knew that the timeless music countdown maestro Dick Clark was also a lover of architecture as art? Or, make that, architecture as cave. A new listing by the 82-year-old ?American Bandstand? host and host of countless New Year?s Eve nights in Times Square has hit the Malibu real estate market and caused a ...

One of the true giants of broadcasting and a staple of everyone?s New Year Eve TV watching, Dick Clark, has died at the age of 82. What is his legacy as a communicator and broadcaster? He spent parts of 7 different decades in front of the camera but you do not remember him broadcaster, actor, ...