Obituaries

Baltimore County Police say the death of a woman found unresponsive in her Woodlawn home has been ruled a homicide.

Ronald Clinton Lott, 53, was pronounced dead at 6:06 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.

A second man charged with stealing a piece of the car in which "Fast & Furious" actor Paul Walker died has surrendered.

THE Devastated boyfriend of Sharron McQuarrie, who died in a house fire in Abbey Meads last year, has described the blaze which took her life on her 31st birthday.

Former Ohio legislator William L. Mallory, who was the state's first black House majority leader and longest-serving in its history, died Tuesday in Cincinnati at the age of 82. Former Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory said his father died peacefully at a hospice, surrounded by his family, after a brief illness.

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In a statement, his family says Jessome died Monday night in Halifax following a distinguished career as a journalist and television host.

The man found dead in a tent in Port Meadow was a physics student at Oxford University whose parents today have described as a "kind young man who took great pleasure in helping other people".

UFC fighter Shane Del Rosario died Monday, nearly two weeks after the heavyweight had a heart attack.

Quad/Graphics Inc. co-founder Betty Quadracci has died at her home in Wisconsin.

Eleanor Parker, who was nominated for Academy Awards three times for her portrayals of strong-willed women and played a scheming baroness in "The Sound of Music," has died at 91. Family friend Richard Gale said Parker died Monday morning due to complications from pneumonia.

A spokeswoman for a North Texas animal sanctuary where seven big cats have died of a virus says the worst of the outbreak appears to be over even though some cats still show symptoms.

Three men have been arrested after a father-of-one was murdered in a suspected case of mistaken identity outside a pub.

Daughter Rosemary Pollock said the centenarian author of more than 120 books died Dec. 3 at a nursing home near her house in Lanreath, southwest England.

Large of groups of police officers are marching in a procession to honour a Toronto police officer who died on the job.

The name of a worker who died after falling from a train car at Tilden Mine in Michigan's Upper Peninsula has been released.

A week after four people died in a New York commuter train derailment, two federal lawmakers proposed Sunday that trains nationwide be outfitted with cameras pointed at engineers and at the tracks.

Mark O'Prey and Gary Arthur were enjoying a night out in Clutha bar when a police helicopter crashed through on Friday November 29. They were among nine people who died.

Character actress Kate Williamson, who appeared in such films as "Disclosure," ''Dahmer," ''Dream Lover" and "Racing With the Moon," has died at age 82 after a lengthy illness, said her manager, Judy Fox.

Thousands of souped-up cars converged on a Southern California business park Sunday where eight days earlier actor Paul Walker and a friend were killed in a fiery car crash.