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Journalist Richard Cohen, Husband To Meredith Vieira, Dies After Half-Century MS Battle Journalist Richard Cohen, Husband To Meredith Vieira, Dies After Half-Century MS Battle
Journalist Richard Cohen, Husband To Meredith Vieira, Dies After Half-Century MS Battle Journalist and author Richard Cohen has died after inspiring countless people through his decades-long battle with MS and cancer. Cohen, the husband of former TODAY anchor Meredith Vieira, died on Tuesday, Dec. 24, TODAY reported. The Plainview, New York, native was 76 years old. A veteran reporter, Cohen lived with multiple sclerosis for more than 50 years and overcame two cancer diagnoses during his life. He was also legally blind. Cohen, who worked for CBS News, was given his MS diagnosis in 1973.  "I was diagnosed when I was 25 years old and essentially told there is no…
COLD CASE: Troopers Seek Lehigh Valley Woman Who Disappeared Without A Trace COLD CASE: Troopers Seek Lehigh Valley Woman Who Disappeared Without A Trace
Cold CASE: Troopers Seek Lehigh Valley Woman Who Disappeared Without A Trace More than 30 years after she vanished from her Fountain Hill home, state police continue the search for Frances Mary Kiefer.  Kiefer was 44 years old when she was last seen on March 22, 1994, troopers said. She was in bed when her husband woke up and went to take a shower, but was nowhere to be found when he returned, according to the Charley Project.  The family car was missing, as was the medicine she took daily for fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue.  The vehicle was later found abandoned in Bethlehem's Saucon Park, some four miles from her South Hoffert Street ho…