LOS ANGELES — Stephen Hillenburg, who created SpongeBob SquarePants and the absurd undersea world he inhabited, has died at age 57, Nickelodeon announced Tuesday. Hillenburg died Monday of Lou Gehrigh ...

According to his death certificate, Hillenburg died due to heart failure as a result of ALS — a disease he revealed to the public in 2017. Hillenburg’s ashes were scattered at least 500 yards off the ...

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Longtime "Spongebob Squarepants" character Mrs. Puff was created partly as a compromise with Nickelodeon in order to get the ...

Stephen Hillenburg, the man behind Nickelodeon’s megahit cartoon series "SpongeBob SquarePants," died on Monday. He was 57. Nickelodeon told Fox News in a statement the network is "incredibly saddened ...

Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of Nickelodeon's long-running hit, SpongeBob SquarePants, has died at 57. Hillenburg died of ALS, which he revealed he had been diagnosed with in March 2017. "We are ...

Hillenburg announced last year that he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the neurodegenerative condition known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Hillenburg announced last year that he had amyotrophic lateral ...

Stephen Hillenburg, a former marine biology teacher who created a children’s show that ballooned into an unlikely cultural phenomenon, “SpongeBob SquarePants,” died Monday at his home in Southern ...