(Photo By Bill Clark/Roll Call/Getty Images) PENNSYLVANIA - Dick Thornburgh, who as Pennsylvania governor won plaudits for his cool handling of the 1979 Three Mile Island crisis and as U.S.
attorney general restored credibility to a Justice Department hurt by the Iran-Contra scandal, has died. He was 88.Thornburgh died Thursday morning at a retirement community facility outside Pittsburgh, his son David said.
The cause is not yet known. He suffered a mild stroke in June 2014.Thornburgh built his reputation as a crime-busting federal prosecutor in Pittsburgh and as a moderate Republican governor.