Alan Colmes, a top-rated television commentator who, as co-host with conservative Sean Hannity of “Hannity & Colmes,” became best known as the liberal in the “lion’s den” of Fox News, has died at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 66. His wife, Jocelyn Elise Crowley, said that he died late Feb. 22 or early Feb. […]

The talk host turned down a two year deal the cable network had offered him.  (reader)