Obituaries

This Sunday, April 20, marks Easter, the most important holiday in the Christian calendar since it commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

In 1989, she was put under house arrest and Win Tin was sent to prison for his political activities.

West Palm Beach resident Kacie Herrick, 29, finished last year's Boston Marathon about 40 minutes before the first bomb went off.

A basement blaze that killed 4-year-old half siblings was accidentally set by children playing with fire, authorities said Sunday.

Balloons with special messages written on them are released from Gwent Square in Cwmbran in memory of Shae Brynley Button, to raise money for Meningitis Now, HUNDREDS of balloons were released in Cwmbran in memory of a three year-old boy who died from meningitis a week ago.

New York: Frankie Knuckles, a pioneer of house music who also mixed records for the likes of Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston, has died at the age of 59, news reports said early on Tuesday.

A suspect has been charged with second degree murder after Clinton police say he fatally stabbed a woman Saturday morning.

John C. Houbolt, an engineer whose contributions to the U.S. space program were vital to NASA's successful moon landing in 1969, has died.

Cobb police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide that took place early Saturday morning in Kennesaw.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Bennie the sea lion died Friday. He was 11. Zoo spokeswoman Susan Gallagher says tests will be done to determine the cause of death.

The search is on for two men after a man was shot to death in his home in Seminole County.

An Ohio couple who held hands at breakfast every morning even after 70 years of marriage have died 15 hours apart.

A 7-year-old boy who died while swimming in North Miami pool was laid to rest in a memorial service on Friday.

Shane Gibson , who toured with Korn from 2007 to 2010, has died at the age of 35. According to Planet Mosh , the guitarist suffered from a rare form of blood-clotting disorder and passed away at 5:45 a.m. on April 15 in Birmingham, Alabama.

A baby gorilla who died before she reached a month old at the Milwaukee County Zoo didn't have any signs of trauma.

Authorities are trying to determine whether drugs or alcohol caused the death of a woman who collapsed last weekend at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Southern California.

The 25-year-old model and TV presenter also married musician Tom Cohen, the father of her two children, at the Kent church.

A coroner in Ohio says the father of a boy killed in a 2012 school shooting died of an accidental heroin overdose on the second anniversary of his son's death.

Newly released recordings of 911 emergency calls revealed the helplessness of stunned residents in the California town of Orland who witnessed the aftermath of last week's fiery crash between a FedEx truck and a tour bus that killed 10 people.

Suicides among U.S. special operations forces, including elite Navy SEALs and Army Rangers, are at record levels, a U.S. military official said on Thursday, citing the effects of more than a decade of "hard combat."