Crash Kills TV Reporter Richard Threlkeld

Police say former television newsman Richard Threlkeld, 74, was killed Friday in a Long Island, New York, traffic accident. Threlkeld, whose career took him to the CBS and ABC evening news teams, was behind the wheel of a 2008 Mini Cooper that struck a propane tanker in Amagansett, police said. The driver of the truck was not injured and the crash was under investigation. Threlkeld, who lived in the area, spent 25 of his 36 years in television with CBS. He was an anchor and field correspondent whose assignments included the fall of South Vietnam, the Gulf War and the Patty Hearst kidnapping. He also covered the White House and was based in Moscow in the 1990s. He retired in 1998 and lived in the Hamptons with his wife, former TV correspondent Betsy Aaron.