Obituaries

Country singer Slim Whitman, the high-pitched yodeler who sold millions of records through ever-present TV ads in the 1980s and 1990s and whose song saved the world in the film comedy "Mars Attacks!," died Wednesday at a Florida hospital.

There will be a lot of these heartsick tributes to Michael Hastings, who died on Tuesday in Los Angeles at the unforgivably young age of 33. He was one of the great journalists of our generation, possessing spark and insight and righteous indignation.

OAK CREEK Wisconsin Sikhs will hold religious observances and a 6-kilometer fundraising run/walk to memorialize last year's tragic shooting.

A form of cancer killed the serial killer known as the Night Stalker who terrorized Southern California in the mid-1980s, coroner's officials said Monday.

Authorities have released the name of a man who died after a fight at Modern Woodmen Park in Davenport.

A 13-year-old boy from a New Orleans suburb was charged with second-degree murder in the death of his 5-year-old half-sister after investigators said he told them he repeatedly struck her with wrestling moves imitated from TV.

The survivors of a woman who died during the production of a reality TV show pilot have filed a wrongful death and negligence lawsuit against Discovery Communications Inc. and Anthropic Productions Corp. It says the companies were producing a pilot focusing on the family's Colorado Springs business, Dragon Arms.

A physics professor who earned a Nobel prize for pioneering work that changed the way physicists think about phase transitions has died in Maine at age 77. Kenneth Wilson was in the physics department at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., when he won the Nobel Prize in 1982 for applying his research in quantum physics to phase transitions, the ... (more)

The Ottumwa Courier reports that 24-year-old Bryan Draper Vilcone on Monday pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.

Fremont police have shot and killed a man they say confronted them with a knife after tearing up his home.

A West Bridgewater man police say was texting when he was involved in a car crash last week has died.

Tennis great Gene Mako, who won four major doubles titles and was ranked in the world top 10 during the 1930s, has died in Southern California.

The tombstone for former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, who died in February after meticulously planning the details of his burial for years, was mistakenly engraved with the wrong birth date, NBC 4 New York has found.

A form of cancer killed the serial killer known as the Night Stalker who terrorized Southern California in the mid-1980s, coroner's officials said Monday.

In a statement released by Gov. Pat McCrory's office, Holshouser's family said he had been in declining health before he died Monday at First Health of the Carolinas Medical Center in Pinehurst.

Helen Brush Jenkins, a pioneering photojournalist who made Life magazine when she snapped a photo of her child moments after giving birth, has died.

The St. Louis City Medical Examiners Office, St. Louis City Police Department, Washington University Research Lab and a representative from University of Notre Dame Anthropology will exhume Jane Doe from Washington Park Cemetery Monday.

Bernard "Bernie" Sahlins, who co-founded Chicago's Second City theatre and who nurtured the early careers of many of the earliest stars of "Saturday Night Live," died Sunday.

Phyllis Tross Blackshaw, 92, of Paducah died at 5:20 p.m. Friday, June 14, 2013, at Southgate Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Metropolis, Ill.

In the chapel of the Serenity funeral home, Xavier Rejano peered into the coffin at his murdered father and made a promise no child his age should have to keep.