Big Birdbarely made it out of the 1980s in one piece. Not only was Sesame Street's biggest star in talks to ride aboard the Challenger space shuttle, but apparently, he nearly went up in smoke while ...

Caroll Spinney, the television puppeteer known for his work as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on the long-running show "Sesame Street," died Sunday. He was 85. In a statement posted to Facebook, Sesame ...

Sometimes he stood 8 feet, 2 inches tall. Sometimes he lived in a garbage can. He often cited numbers and letters of the alphabet, and for nearly a half century on “Sesame Street” he was Big Bird and ...