Want to dress up like famed OxyClean pitchman Billy Mays on Halloween? Mays' family says it's all good -- and they're willing to give you a tub of the good stuff to go for it. Mays' son, Billy Mays ...

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Billy Mays — and his booming voice — was a fixture on television screens in the early 2000s, selling products like OxiClean and Kaboom. But his career as a pitchman was tragically cut short when he ...

Billy Mays, the loud, fast-talking pitchman who epitomized the infomercial spokesman, died Saturday at his home in Tampa. Mays, who would have turned 51 on July 20, was found by his wife. Police do ...

The widow of TV pitchman Billy Mays says an independent medical examiner has determined cocaine use did not contribute to her late husband's death. In a statement released Thursday, Deborah Mays says ...

/*Billy Mays*/, 50, was found dead at his home in Tampa, Fla. on June 28, where a medical examiner says he likely died of a heart attack, though test results to confirm that are pending. Mays shot ...

MCKEES ROCKS, PA "He sold more OxiClean than Andy Warhol sold Campbell's Soup," said Mays' cousin Dean Panizzi, comparing Mays to the Pittsburgh-born pop artist who turned the soup can into a work of ...

Aww. Even though he was straight, I think he deserves to be classified as an honorary bear. He brightened up our evening television viewing. Cute, hunky, enthusiastic, bearded TV... Aww. Even though ...

Billy Mays would pitch and pitch and pitch until he got you to buy some special broom, magical putty or electric drill. Turns out the man synonymous with $19.95 was on some special stuff himself. The ...