Don Rickles, king of insult comedy, dies at 90

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Comedian Don Rickles has died at age 90.

Paul Shefrin, his longtime publicist and friend, said Rickles died today of kidney failure at his Los Angeles home.

For more than a half-century, "Mr. Warmth" headlined casinos and nightclubs from Las Vegas to Atlantic City, N.J., and appeared often on late-night TV talk shows.