Harry Connick Jr.’s father, attorney Harry Connick Sr., dies

Harry Connick Sr., who served as the New Orleans district attorney for three decades and was the father of Grammy-winning jazz musician Harry Connick Jr., has died. He was 97 years old. According to a family spokesman, Connick died peacefully at his home in New Orleans on Thuresday with his wife, Londa, and two children at his side. A cause of death was not disclosed. During the early 1970s, Connick became a legal powerbroker who unseated three-term incumbent district attorney Jim Garrison. Re-elected four times, the Mobile, Ala., native served...