UPDATE: Lung cancer claims Canadian-born anchor Peter Jennings

NEW YORK – Long-time and well-respected ABC News anchor Peter Jennings died of lung cancer just before midnight on Sunday at his home in New York. He was 67. Jennings was anchor of ABC World News Tonight for 22 years and spent 41 years at ABC. He was diagnosed four months ago, and vowed to keep working as long as he could, even behind the scenes and took a great interest in the program right up until the end, reported abcnews.com. It was “a virulent, terrible form of lung cancer that Peter faced,” said Jennings’ fill-in, Charles Gibson, in announcing...