Singer Issac Hayes seen performing in the U.K. last year. Hayes was found dead Sunday at age 65.
Relatives found Hayes, 65, unconscious in his home next to a still-running treadmill, said Steve Shular, a spokesman for the Shelby County Sheriff's Department.
Paramedics attempted to revive him and took him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 2 p.m., the sheriff's department said.
No foul play is suspected, the agency said in a written statement.
Hayes was a longtime songwriter and arranger for Stax Records in Memphis, playing in the studio's backup band and crafting tunes for artists such as Otis Redding and Sam and Dave in the 1960s.
Comedian Bernie Mac died early this morning at Northwestern Memorial hospital. The 50 year-old star of “The Bernie Mac” show was recently hospitalized with a bout of pneumonia.
According to reports from The Chicago Sun-Times, the cause of death has not been confirmed; but close friends of the Mac family are confirming reports of his death. The Chicago native was diagnosed years ago with the autoimmune disease sarcoidosis, which can cause inflammation in the lungs and other organs.
Reportedly his pneumonia is not related to that chronic condition, which has been in remission since 2005. On Monday a spokesperson for the sitcom star denied rumors of his untimely passing.
Mac, who is known for his brash comedy got his start as local legend in the comedy clubs on Chicago’s Southside. He became a household name in 2001 with the premiere of his FOX network sitcom “The Bernie Mac Show.” Along with stand-up routines on HBO’s “Def Comedy Jam” and The Kings Of Comedy, Mac appeared in various Hollywood movies such as Ocean's Eleven, Pride, Mr. 3000, Players Club and Bad Santa.
Mac survived by his wife Rhonda McCullough and daughter Je'Niece.
A two-count indictment was delivered in New York on Wednesday (July 30) against a Harlem man whose internet video postings aimed to cause panic amongst mothers across the country.
Anton Dunn, who identified himself in his videos as Trashman, is accused of creating a series of videos threatening the lives of millions of infants.
In three videos posted since April 20, 2008, a masked man believed by Food and Drug Administration investigators to be Anton Dunn appears on camera claiming to have ordered the contamination of thousands of bottles of Gerber Baby Food.
Trashman claimed in televised rants that with some help from actual Gerber employees, he would achieve his goal of “getting rid of these Black babies that are gonna be born in 2008 and 2009.”
“We wanna get rid of the future of the Black man,” Trashman said in one video posted on July 24. “We’re trying to get rid of you, destroy you, kill you dead, wipe you out. We’re out to kill your child. We are definitely out to destroy the Black human race of the future. There’s too many n***as and Hispanic babies.”
Trashman, who appears to be African-American, claimed that he had photo proof of his operatives tainting the baby food with cyanide and rat poison.
In other videos, he has claimed to have infected thousands of women with the HIV virus, reportedly threatened executives at AllHipHop.com, and even took credit for the deaths of Jam Master Jay, Stack Bundles and model Ruslana Korshunova, who committed suicide in June.
Law enforcement officials were alerted to Dunn’s videos after his first “warning” was discovered by a Gerber employee, who then contacted the FDA’s Detroit bureau.
In the following months, the FDA was able to track Dunn using the accounts he had created at YouTube.com.
Since the release of his second video on July 24, Gerber has received numerous complaints and questions from consumers concerned about the safety of their children.
The company tells the FDA that it has found no evidence of contamination of tempering with any of it’s products.
And while the accused claimed in one video that at least four children had already died as a result of his actions, the FDA has yet to receive reports of death or injury linked to Gerber products.
Dunn is facing charges of sending threats in interstate commerce and falsely claiming to have tampered with a consumer product.
