ALBANY, Ga. — The first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal, Alice Coachman Davis, died early Monday in south Georgia. She was 90. Davis’ death was confirmed by her daughter, Evelyn Jones ...
Dr. Richard W. Moriarty, the driving force behind the creation of the Pittsburgh Poison Center and the scowling green Mr. Yuk sticker that warns kids about poisonous substances, has died.
Haili Church figure ‘Aunty Hawea’ Waiau dies at 90 By JOHN BURNETT Hawaii Tribune-Herald | Tuesday, March 10, 2015, 11 a.m. Share this ... died Feb. 24 at Hilo Medical Center. She was 90, ...
Known as Dr. Max (he was not a medical doctor. but had a Ph.D. in neuroscience), he reported on health and science with an easygoing gravitas. By Richard Sandomir Max Gomez, an award-winning ...
Political reporter Gene Lahammer was always a sure bet when it came to calling a race on Minnesota's election nights. Over 50 years, he never once called an election wrong, his daughter Mary ...
Alfred “Al” Ketzler Sr. was born April 16, 1933, to Richard and Bonita Ketzler in Nenana. He passed away after a brief battle with leukemia, his obituary states. Contact Haley Lehman at 907 ...
Richard Wilson was the scion of a Southern California family who lived out his life on a remote ranch in northeastern Mendocino County, where he championed environmental conservation. The son of a ...
CBC News reporter and anchor Kuljeet Kaila died after a fierce battle against brain cancer. The tributes are pouring in since the news of her death, as many colleagues and loved ones are mourning ...
Y.A. Tittle, the Hall of Fame quarterback who led the New York Giants to three consecutive NFL championship games in the early 1960s after the San Francisco 49ers had discarded him as too old and ...
Chieko Ryu, who as a girl was captured in an iconic photograph taken a day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945, died on Aug. 15, the 75th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.
Walt Pelett, the colorful proprietor of the sprawling City Liquidators in Portland’s Central Eastside, died Tuesday. He was 90. Pelett opened City Liquidators in a warehouse near the Morrison ...
As a teenager growing up in Rio de Janeiro, Léa Garcia pored over books by the French existentialists Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, dreaming of becoming a writer. Her father was a ...
