TED TURNER, OUTSPOKEN FOUNDER OF CNN, DIES AT 87

Ted Turner, the brash sportsman and entrepreneur whose ambition and instincts led to a media empire that included groundbreaking news network CNN, has died, CNN reported on Wednesday citing a press release from Turner Enterprises. He was 87.

No cause of death was given. In September 2018 Turner revealed that he had Lewy body dementia, a degenerative nerve disease.