Obituaries

A MAN has been charged with the death of Kyhesha-Lee Joughin, a three-year-old found dead at her Petrie home at Easter this year.

A firefighter walks in front of the burning Sofa Super Store in Charleston, S.C., Monday, June 18, 2007.

Did a rapper fake his own death, using the hip-hop media to announce that he died? It looks like this may be the case as rapper Tim Dog was said to have passed away in February but he may still be walking the earth today.

"We are just heartbroken. I prayed all the way here and I will pray all the way home," said Laurie Amos of St.

Lack of a death certificate or of a burial site and sparse obituary information led to talk in hip-hop circles that rapper Tim Dog, who owes thousands of dollars to women he was convicted of swindling, faked his own death in February.

The Dr. Pepper Snapple Group Inc. of Plano, Texas, which now owns Snapple, on Thursday confirmed Marsh's death.

A massive tornado was carving its way through town. There was no time to hesitate.

A teenager was arrested Thursday in the deaths of his two younger brothers, ages 4 and 10, at the family home in a Utah subdivision of new homes and tidy lawns, police said.

The tragedy at Plaza Towers Elementary took a new turn Thursday with the the first of seven funeral services for the children killed three days earlier when a massive tornado smashed the school to pieces.

Tornado survivors thanked God, sturdy closets and luck in explaining how they lived through the colossal twister that devastated an Oklahoma town and killed 24 people, an astonishingly low toll given the extent of destruction.

A funeral will be held this weekend for a veteran Dallas firefighter who died after being trapped battling a blaze at a condominium complex.

Police from all over Bergen County celebrated the second annual Blue Mass honoring law enforcement officers who gave their lives in the line of duty at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Ridgewood Wednesday morning.

The cost of a massive tornado that battered an Oklahoma City suburb could be more than $2 billion, according to a preliminary official estimate announced Wednesday.

Photographer Wayne F. Miller, who created a ground-breaking series of portraits chronicling the lives of black Americans in Chicago after serving with an elite Navy unit that produced some of the most indelible combat images of World War II, died Wednesday at his home of six decades in Orinda, Calif.

Nicknamed 'The Wall,' 8-year-old Kyle Davis loved soccer and going to Monster Truck exhibitions at the fairgrounds with his grandfather.

A Philadelphia couple who believe in faith healing over medicine and who were on probation in their son's pneumonia death were charged with murder Wednesday after a second young child died under what a prosecutor called "eerily similar" circumstances.

The scene in Woolwich, south London, where a man was killed and two others were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds Witnesses said the victim was hacked to death, with some suggesting his attackers tried to behead him, before charging at police when they arrived on the scene in Woolwich, south-east London.

A 46-year-old man on death row for killing a fellow inmate has been found dead in his cell.

Three sisters say they were kicked out of a suburban Philadelphia mall after refusing to remove profanity-laden hats expressing their hatred of breast cancer.

Memorial Day is a day to remember the men and women who died while serving in the armed forces.