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LAS ANIMAS COUNTY, Colo. — The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is investigating a suspicious death after a body was found in an abandoned building near the Ludlow Massacre Memorial Site.

The 6-foot-7 actor towered over the television landscape for two decades as righteous Old West lawman Marshal Matt Dillon. He was 88. James Arness, the Minnesota city boy who became television's ...

James Arness, the 6-foot-6 actor who towered over the television landscape for two decades as righteous Dodge City lawman Matt Dillon in "Gunsmoke," died Friday. He was 88. The actor died in his sleep ...

After playing Marshal Matt Dillon for two decades on the hit CBS Western Gunsmoke, James Arness was suddenly without a job when the network axed the series without warning after 20 seasons. But did ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From the battlefields of Anzio to the backlot streets of Dodge, Arness carried the same sense of duty that made Matt Dillon ...

On Sept. 10, 1955, the Western premiered on CBS before kicking off a 20-season, 635-episode run. By Hal Landers On Sept. 10, 1955, the iconic Western series Gunsmoke premiered on CBS from 10 ...

Marlon Arness Foster, 66, of Harrisonburg, passed away on Sunday, June 29, 2025, at the Sentara RMH Medical Center. Mr. Foster was born on January 3, 1959, in Williamsburg, VA and was a son of the ...

A son shared stories about his father serving in the Army with James Arness during World War II and another reader set a goal to watch the entire "Gunsmoke" series. After reading a story about James ...

When the classic western drama “Gunsmoke” finished its 20-year run on CBS in 1975, Los Angeles Times critic Cecil Smith made a bold prediction. “I have the feeling that the first moon colony we ...