He was the local loon. We didn’t call him that, of course. He had buckets of money, and he was our neighbor, so we were polite. He was simply “odd.” He bought a replica police car, put on a uniform, ...

John E. du Pont, an heir to the du Pont chemical fortune whose benevolent support of Olympic athletes deteriorated into delusion and ended in the shooting death of a champion wrestler, died Thursday ...

The football life of John Pont was a long and interesting one, taking him from Canton to Canada to a Rose Bowl to … Japan. He transitioned from being a star player – beginning with his days at Timken ...