HUNTING VALLEY, Ohio — Thomas V.H. Vail, retired chairman and longtime publisher and editor of The Plain Dealer, died Monday at age 97, followed in death Wednesday of his long-time wife, Iris ...

For a few days, it was no fun to be named Tom Vail. You remember Vail, once the youngest publisher of a major metropolitan newspaper. He took over as editor/publisher of The Plain Dealer at age 36 ...