David White

The newly formed SAG-AFTRA board of directors has confirmed David White as the merged union's sole national executive director. The national board of SAG-AFTRA voted overwhelmingly Sunday to select White for the job, approving a new three-year contract. White, the former Screen Actors Guild executive director, was expected to assume the new position as the chief administrative officer for the union of about 160,000 members. He had been serving as co-national executive director with former American Federation of Television and Radio Artists leader Kim Roberts Hedgpeth, who announced last month that she was resigning.

The newly formed SAG-AFTRA board of directors has confirmed David White as the merged union's sole national executive director. The national board of SAG-AFTRA voted overwhelmingly Sunday to select White for the job, approving a new three-year contract. White, the former Screen Actors Guild executive director, was expected to assume the new position as the chief administrative officer for the union of about 160,000 members. He had been serving as co-national executive director with former American Federation of Television and Radio Artists leader Kim Roberts Hedgpeth, who announced last month that she was resigning.

Camarillo resident David White, a longtime newspaperman who served as Camarillo bureau chief for the Oxnard Press-Courier for 16 years, died Sunday. He was 91. White was born Oct. 9, 1905, in Cambusnethan, Scotland. He married Ellen Monica in 1929, and they had three daughters. In 1953, he moved his family to Camarillo in hopes that the mild climate would help his daughter's asthma. They traveled on the Queen Mary to New York and boarded a train for the trip to California.

The Screen Actors Guild board of directors has appointed David P. White as the national executive director and chief negotiator for Hollywood's largest union. The appointment of White, who had been serving as interim executive director, was widely anticipated after a group of moderate actors that orchestrated the firing of his predecessor, Doug Allen, installed White in January. The moderates recently solidified their position on the national board when their candidate, veteran character actor Ken Howard, soundly defeated Anne-Marie Johnson, who was backed by the faction that had supported Allen and swept outgoing SAG President Alan Rosenberg into office four years ago. Johnson and Rosenberg filed an unsuccessful lawsuit to block the board's firing of Allen, who led the union during a yearlong contract standoff with the studios.

David White, character actor best known for his role as Larry Tate on the long-running ABC television series "Bewitched," has died. He was 74. White died Tuesday of a heart attack at the Medical Center of North Hollywood. Trained in the 1940s by the Pasadena Playhouse and the Cleveland Playhouse, White was popular on stage and in films as well as in several television series.

Buffalo linebacker David White gave the Miami Dolphins a lesson in economics Sunday: The guys who play for minimum salaries can be just as valuable as the ones with seven-figure contracts. White, who sat out last season after being cut by New England, made a key interception in the Bills' 23-20 victory that left Miami's millionaires in danger of missing the playoffs. For Buffalo (10-5), AFC Super Bowl representative from 1990 to 1993, the victory capped a comeback from a 7-9 season.

They stopped counting at 750, and still people flooded in Monday night to pay their respects to Paul E. White, 30, killed with three others Thursday by former Caltrans employee Arturo Reyes Torres, who was then killed by police. For the memorial service, White's family and friends used the enormous Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses here instead of the smaller one in Long Beach where he had regularly worshiped.

The prospect of a new contract for Hollywood's film and TV actors brightened Monday after the Screen Actors Guild board appointed a new negotiating team and ousted the union's executive director. In a dramatic shake-up of the union's leadership, the board tapped former SAG General Counsel David White as the guild's interim executive director after firing Doug Allen, citing a leadership crisis that has paralyzed Hollywood's largest actors union. For now, Allen's job will be split in two.

Isaac David White, 89, a retired Army general and highly decorated officer who led major armored assaults in World War II and Korea. His military career paralleled the development of modern armor and armored warfare tactics. In April, 1945, White's forces played a major role in sealing Germany's Ruhr Valley pocket, covering 190 miles in 13 days and capturing more than 45,000 prisoners.

David and Julie Eisenhower shared memories of life in the White House during the Nixon and Eisenhower years at the St. Jeanne de Lestonnac Auditorium in Tustin on Thursday. A crowd of about 200 attended their talk, one of four in the Celebrity Series presented by the Crescendo Chapter of the Guilds of the Orange County Performing Arts Center.

Time magazine reported online this week that President Obama and his family had found a new church: Evergreen Chapel at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland. Apparently, Time got it wrong. "The president and first family continue to look for a church home," White House spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki said. "They have enjoyed worshiping at Camp David and several other congregations over the months, and will choose a church at the time that is best for their family."

On the eighth floor of the Screen Actors Guild headquarters on Wilshire Boulevard, interim Executive Director David White is pacing his new office, marshaling arguments in support of the union's recently negotiated film and TV contract. "It's a good contract with solid gains," said White, who was installed in late January after moderates on the union's board orchestrated a revolt against the former leadership.

The prospect of a new contract for Hollywood's film and TV actors brightened Monday after the Screen Actors Guild board appointed a new negotiating team and ousted the union's executive director. In a dramatic shake-up of the union's leadership, the board tapped former SAG General Counsel David White as the guild's interim executive director after firing Doug Allen, citing a leadership crisis that has paralyzed Hollywood's largest actors union. For now, Allen's job will be split in two.

They stopped counting at 750, and still people flooded in Monday night to pay their respects to Paul E. White, 30, killed with three others Thursday by former Caltrans employee Arturo Reyes Torres, who was then killed by police. For the memorial service, White's family and friends used the enormous Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses here instead of the smaller one in Long Beach where he had regularly worshiped.

Camarillo resident David White, a longtime newspaperman who served as Camarillo bureau chief for the Oxnard Press-Courier for 16 years, died Sunday. He was 91. White was born Oct. 9, 1905, in Cambusnethan, Scotland. He married Ellen Monica in 1929, and they had three daughters. In 1953, he moved his family to Camarillo in hopes that the mild climate would help his daughter's asthma. They traveled on the Queen Mary to New York and boarded a train for the trip to California.

Buffalo linebacker David White gave the Miami Dolphins a lesson in economics Sunday: The guys who play for minimum salaries can be just as valuable as the ones with seven-figure contracts. White, who sat out last season after being cut by New England, made a key interception in the Bills' 23-20 victory that left Miami's millionaires in danger of missing the playoffs. For Buffalo (10-5), AFC Super Bowl representative from 1990 to 1993, the victory capped a comeback from a 7-9 season.

Haile Gerima's sweeping, powerful "Sankofa," which in the African language of Akan means returning to the past in order to go forward, opens in the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, an ancient fortress where slaves bound for America were kept in chains. While a group of tourists visit the site, a photographer snaps away at a beautiful African fashion model named Mona (Oyafunmike Ogunlano).

In 34 years as a Hollywood prop maker, John Izumi rarely missed a day of work. Now he can barely pull himself out of bed. His medical records describe a daunting array of ailments: chest pains, headaches, dizziness, memory loss, red blotches and pimple-like bumps. He says he has trouble breathing at night and wakes up with tremors. Izumi traces these symptoms to the three months he spent at Downey Studios in 2004 and 2005 building sets for the science-fiction movie "The Island."

David and Julie Eisenhower shared memories of life in the White House during the Nixon and Eisenhower years at the St. Jeanne de Lestonnac Auditorium in Tustin on Thursday. A crowd of about 200 attended their talk, one of four in the Celebrity Series presented by the Crescendo Chapter of the Guilds of the Orange County Performing Arts Center.

David White, character actor best known for his role as Larry Tate on the long-running ABC television series "Bewitched," has died. He was 74. White died Tuesday of a heart attack at the Medical Center of North Hollywood. Trained in the 1940s by the Pasadena Playhouse and the Cleveland Playhouse, White was popular on stage and in films as well as in several television series.