Obituaries

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.

A Dearborn soccer player accused of killing a referee with a punch to his neck is scheduled to appear in court.

Thousands of people are expected to attend the funeral of a New York City firefighter killed in a burning, cluttered apartment at a high-rise public housing building.

JURORS have this morning retraced the route Ben Blakeley said he took with Pendle teenager Jayden Parkinson on December 3, the night she died.

Clement died three years ago, but his body went unclaimed - one of 200 that filled a room at a Detroit morgue.

Kuiper Funeral Home says visitation for Patrolman Jeffrey Westerfield will be 2-8 p.m. Sunday at the Genesis Convention Center.

Residents in a number of Eastern states were cleaning up Wednesday, a day after being hit by severe storms, including a tornado in central New York that killed four and left survivors to pick through the debris from homes battered by winds of at least 100 mph.

PINK dresses, shirts, button holes and ties were the order of the day when family, friends and work colleagues packed Worcester Crematorium for a service of celebration and thanksgiving for the life of journalist Sarah Veall, who died after a lengthy battle against cancer.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has declared this week an official period of mourning after the loss of three law enforcement officers in the line of duty over eight days.

Three people died Tuesday night in a storm that tore through Central New York that was so severe it tore the roof off of a restaurant and left more than 55,000 without power.

NEWPORT BEACH >> Two services are scheduled Sunday for former Rancho Cucamonga resident Ben Carlson, a Newport Beach lifeguard who drowned last weekend attempting to save a swimmer.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says police in Tyrone have asked the agency to help investigate the death of a businessman who was found inside his business.

The actor who gave voice to Pinocchio in Walt Disney's 1940 animation movie, died at his home Monday night, the Los Angeles County coroner's office said Tuesday.

The mother of a 12-year-old North Texas girl who died after falling off the trunk of a moving car following a swimming outing has been arrested.

A 3-year-old South Carolina boy who died several days after being trapped in a hot car had climbed into the vehicle while his mother slept, according to a relative's call to 911.

He was the son of Peter Martin Wege, who founded Steelcase more than a century ago.

There will be no charges for the sheriff's deputy who killed a 13-year-old boy near Santa Rosa last year.

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A Navy veteran filed a civil rights lawsuit Monday after the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery refused to allow her to be buried with the ashes of her late wife.