Obituaries

Hewett died at the New Hanover County Detention Center, where he was being held under a contract for the U.S. Marshals Service.

A 9-year-old Kansas girl is dead after she contracted an extremely rare brain-eating amoeba earlier this week, according to doctors.

Hundreds of emergency responders have marched in a procession to honor a veteran Houston firefighter who died after suffering burns this week while battling a house blaze.

Oestrike's death was announced Friday by the Ypsilanti school. He was baseball coach for 23 seasons and had a record of 657-508-8.

THE funeral of a man found dead at the bottom of cliffs, after escaping from police custody, will be held next week.

Lord Robert Alexander Holt Methuen, the seventh Baron Methuen, who served in Parliament as both a hereditary and elected peer, died on Wednesday aged 82. The youngest of three brothers, he was born in 1931 and studied at Shrewsbury School and then Trinity College Cambridge, where he gained a degree in engineering.

Friends and family of inspirational mum Natasha Goode turned out in force in Devizes today to say their final goodbyes.

A church funeral for a Roman Catholic priest in Ohio who died while serving a prison sentence for the 1980 death of a nun proceeded Friday as a few people protested at the church's diocese headquarters.

NEW YORK - Bassist Charlie Haden, who helped change the shape of jazz a half-century ago as a member of the groundbreaking Ornette Coleman Quartet, has died.

The law compensated Alaska Natives for loss of lands historically used. It led to establishment of regional and village Native corporations with the right to select 44 million acres of land and appropriated $962.5 million to them.

Queen 's Brian May is demonstrating that he doesn't hold a grudge. The rocker is expressing his "sincere condolences" to the family of the group's first manager, who passed away a few weeks ago.

John Seigenthaler, the journalist who edited The Tennessean newspaper, helped shape USA Today and worked for civil rights during the Kennedy administration, died Friday at his Nashville home at age 86, his son said.

Richard Dunnigan, a venerable figure in the real estate community who sold homes in Sacramento before World War II and founded one of the capital's oldest property firms, died Wednesday of complications from a stroke, his son said.

A memorial service will be held this weekend for a veteran Houston firefighter who died after suffering burns while battling a house blaze.

Freda Carter told the Daily Telegraph how she came across her son's anonymous transplant recipient at a memorial service A mother whose son died six years ago met the man his donor heart saved in what has been described as a "completely coincidental" moment.

Eileen Ford, the founder of the Ford Models who promoted the fresh-faced look of American women and set the stage for the phenomenon of celebrity super models, has died at the age of 92, the agency said on Thursday.

Catholics are decrying a recent Louisiana Supreme Court decision that reaches into the most sanctified of church places, the confessional booth.

A Detroit-area soccer player accused of killing a referee with a punch to the neck made an initial court appearance on a second-degree murder charge Thursday, the same day family and friends were saying a final goodbye to the referee.

Modeling agency founder Eileen Ford, who shaped a generation's standards of beauty as she built an empire and launched the careers of Candice Bergen, Lauren Hutton, Jane Fonda and countless others, has died.

Camp Executive Director Jon Bisset said Wednesday that the River Valley Ranch camp in Carroll County will review all its protocols after a 12-year-old camper died Tuesday night.