Obituaries

A gas leak triggered an earthshaking explosion that flattened two apartment buildings on Wednesday, killing at least four people, injuring more than 60 and leaving nine missing.

The great and the good will gather at Westminster Abbey today for a service celebrating the life and work of Sir David Frost.

In this photo taken on April 13, 1980, Larry Scott, right, poses with his his wife, Rachel.

A newborn baby found dead Feb. 12 by the side of a road in North Bend will be buried Saturday.

An inquest has been opened today into the death of a man who fell to his death at a city shopping centre.

After Walter George Bruhl Jr. died Sunday at the age of 80, his family discovered he had written his own obituary.

The funeral for the four family members who died in a four-alarm Jersey City blaze last week has been scheduled for Friday at Mount Olive Baptist Church in Jersey City.

A 3-year-old boy who a passenger in a car that was hit by an alleged drunk driver Friday night has died, according to the Richland County Coroner's Office.Coroner Gary Watts said Josiah Caden Jenkins died Bond was denied Tuesday night for the man accused of driving drunk, crashing into a car, and killing the 3-year-old grandnephew of Columbia Fire ... (more)

The inquest into the deaths of Penryn woman, Bridget Toy, and former Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall, Jeremy Tetley, who died in a car crash at Treluswell last July, is to be held in Truro next Wednesday .

The devastated parents of a six-day-old baby mauled to death by a family dog today joined dozens of mourners at her funeral.

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A MOTHER has urged young people to watch out for the signs of bowel cancer after her daughter's early death.

William Hauck, the longest serving trustee for the California State University system, died Friday at the Sutter Roseville Medical Center in Northern California after an eight-month battle with brain cancer.

Joe McGinniss, the adventurous and news-making author and reporter who skewered the marketing of Richard Nixon in "The Selling of the President 1968" and tracked his personal journey from sympathizer to scourge of convicted killer Jeffrey MacDonald in the blockbuster "Fatal Vision," died Monday at age 71. McGinniss, who announced in 2013 that he ... (more)

LAS VEGAS -- Authorities have identified a 3-year-old boy who police say may have been drowned in a bathtub by his mother.

Yes, I'm getting a little impatient - like a little kid stuck in the back of a station wagon, on a road trip .

Devonte Campbell, 19, from east London, was charged after Aaron Carriere, 21, and Josiah Manful, 20, were found in the vehicle in Leytonstone, east London.

A young woman who had never flown before leapt out of a plane at 12,000 ft in memory of her late friend.

The Black Hawk County Sheriff's office says James Terrell Taylor died Friday evening after being found unresponsive in a cell.