All this month, we celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness. And while there are beautiful stories of survival and research…there are the stories of the families who are left behind, when the battle is lost. WJBF News Channel 6’s Joy Howe has the story of a victim, and the survivors she left behind.

All this month, we celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness. And while there are beautiful stories of survival and research…there are the stories of the families who are left behind, when the battle is lost. WJBF News Channel 6’s Joy Howe has the story of a victim, and the survivors she left behind.

Army Archerd, whose breezy column for the entertainment trade publication Daily Variety kept tabs on various Hollywood doings for more than a half-century, has died. He was 87.

Ernie Harwell, the 91-year-old Baseball Hall of Fame honoree and longtime broadcaster for the Detroit Tigers, said Friday that he has inoperable cancer.

Ernie Harwell, the 91-year-old Baseball Hall of Fame honoree and longtime broadcaster for the Detroit Tigers, said Friday that he has inoperable cancer.

Sen. Edward Kennedy has died after a long battle with a brain tumor. He was 77. The youngest of the Kennedy brothers, he became perhaps the most powerful liberal voice in the U.S. Senate of his time.

A cancer-stricken Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has asked Massachusetts leaders to change state law to allow a speedy replacement of him in the Senate, fearing a months-long open seat will deny Democrats a crucial vote on President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. In a note to Gov. Deval Patrick and other state leaders, Kennedy wrote “it is vital for this commonwealth to have two voices speaking for the needs of its citizens and two votes in the Senate during the approximately five months between a vacancy and an election.“

Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd says he has been diagnosed with an early stage of prostate cancer and will have surgery early in August

The Veterans Administration is opening a new 10-bed hospice unit at its center in Columbia. Officials at the William Jennings Bryan Dorn VA Medical Center are having an open house Wedneday. They say the unit will be ready for patients within days.

The life of “Charlie’s Angels” star Farrah Fawcett was celebrated at a private funeral in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday. Her longtime companion, Ryan O’Neal, was among pallbearers who accompanied the casket, covered in yellow and orange flowers, into the Roman Catholic cathedral Tuesday afternoon.

Farrah Fawcett will be laid to rest Tuesday in Los Angeles at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

Farrah Fawcett will be laid to rest Tuesday in Los Angeles at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

Apple says CEO Steve Jobs is back at work a few days a week and working from home other days.

A special camp for South Carolina children battling cancer is celebrating its 30th anniversary this week. More than 100 campers and 40 counselors are on hand for Camp Kemo at Camp Kinard near Batesburg-Leesville.

A special camp for South Carolina children battling cancer is celebrating its 30th anniversary this week. More than 100 campers and 40 counselors are on hand for Camp Kemo at Camp Kinard near Batesburg-Leesville.