FOX News Channel reporter Douglas Kennedy, 32, the youngest son of Robert F. Kennedy, and his wife, Molly, 29, have further expanded their notable family. Riley Elizabeth (8 lbs.), their first child, was born on Aug. 26 in Nantucket, Mass....
Country songbird Sara Evans ("No Place That Far"), 28, and her husband, Craig Schelske, 36, a musician, welcomed their first child, Avery Jack Lyons Schelske (7 lbs. 8¾ oz.), on Aug. 21 in Nashville.
Deaths
Character actress Mary Jane Croft, 83, a regular on three of Lucille Ball's sitcoms in the '50s, '60s and '70s and a close friend of the late comedian, died on Aug. 24 of natural causes in L.A. In I Love Lucy's last season (1957), Croft played neighbor (and sometime nemesis) Betty Ramsey....
Another I Love Lucy alum, character actor Ross Elliott, among whose multiple roles on the show was that of the TV director in the memorable Vitameatavegamin episode, died of cancer on Aug 12 at age 82 in L.A....
TV pioneer Martha Rountree, 87, co-creator of NBC's Meet the Press in 1947, its first moderator and still the only woman to have held that post, died on Aug. 23 in Washington, D.C.
Wed
Rock-and-roller Phil Everly, 60, half of the Everly Brothers ("Wake Up Little Susie," "Bye Bye Love"), and Patti Arnold, 42, a 911 dispatcher, tied the knot on Aug. 23 in Las Vegas. It is his third marriage and her first.
Legal Matters
Ann M. Freeman, the mother of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and Lauren Bessette, asked a Manhattan court on Aug. 26 to appoint her the administrator of her late daughters' estates. The sisters both died without a will but have assets valued at less than $500,000 each. In her petition, Freeman also seeks the right to file "personal injury and wrongful death claims" in the July 16 plane crash that killed the sisters, along with pilot John F. Kennedy Jr....
Jonathan Schmitz, 29, who killed a gay acquaintance, Scott Amedure, after he confessed an infatuation for him on a never-aired Jenny Jones episode in 1995, was convicted of murder on Aug. 26 in Pontiac, Mich., for the second time. His previous conviction, in 1996, had been overturned on appeal.
Out of Play
Cleveland Browns linebacker Chris Spielman, 33, retired from football after suffering a severe neck injury in an Aug. 28 game that left him briefly paralyzed. He sat out last season after his wife, Stefany, underwent breast cancer surgery (PEOPLE, Jan. 11, 1999), and in March he finally returned to the game. The Browns have offered him a coaching position, but he has not yet decided whether he will accept.
Fiscal Matters
Officials in Concord, Calif. (pop. 114,000), want Whitney Houston, 36, to pay $104,000 for expenses the city incurred while prepping for a recent outdoor concert that the pop diva called off shortly before showtime because of illness. Houston's publicist could not be reached for comment.
Derring-Do
New York City firefighter Tom Foley, 30, whom PEOPLE featured as one of the Sexiest Men at Work last year, and police officer Romano Amleto, 36, rescued two construction workers on Aug. 24 after broken scaffolding left them dangling an estimated 120 feet above the ground.
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