Obituaries

An 18-year-old Eunice man was shot and later died after he and two others were attacked in the small Acadia Parish community of Branch north of Rayne.

The president of a New York police union defended an officer who accidentally killed a Hofstra University student during a standoff with an armed intruder, saying Tuesday the only person responsible for the woman's death was the gunman who held her hostage.

A North Texas husband and wife have been charged with felony injury to a child after their 4-year-old adopted son was found dead at their home.

The enormity of what they saw caused many to pause, raw emotion welling up as they tried to put haunting images into words.

Comedy writer Eddie Braben, the third man behind the success of Morecambe and Wise, has died at the age of 82, his manager said.

The parents and guardians stood in the muddy grass outside a suburban Oklahoma City church, listening intently as someone with a bullhorn called out the names of children who were being dropped off - survivors of Monday's deadly tornado.

Agent Christopher Lorek and Special Agent Stephen Shaw, both part of the FBI's Critical Incident Response Group, were on a weeklong training trip in Hampton Roads.

A massive, mile-wide tornado with winds up to 200 mph killed at least 51 people Monday afternoon during 40 terrifying minutes of destruction across southern Oklahoma City and its suburbs.

Publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald says in a news release that Manzarek died Monday at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family.

A Kentucky teenager known as a "jokester" was strangled by a dog lead he put around his neck while playing with friends at the start of summer vacation, just hours after finishing his freshman year in high school.

Latest reports have 24 students dead, as the school they attended crashed down around them in the tornado which devastated a large area in Oklahoma Monday afternoon, according to Fox News live on Monday, May 20, 2013.

President Barack Obama will bestow the Medal of Freedom posthumously on Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space.

Officer Chris Bragelman was found dead early Sunday morning at the Blue Herron Bar and Grill in Hugo.

Bernard Waber debuted as an author in 1962 with 'The House on East 88th Street.' The book introduced readers to the loveable Lyle, first spotted in a bathtub in an Upper East Side brownstone.

A coroner says a central Kentucky teenager died after falling and catching a dog lead he was wearing and causing death.

The Sunset Hills Cemetery & Funeral Home in Eugene, Ore., is capitalizing on the idea, offering "one last ride" through the city's scenic bike paths on the back of a three-wheeled bicycle, according to Eugene TV station KVAL.

THREE 20 year olds who survived a 'horrific' car crash on the A419 yesterday have seen no change in their condition overnight.

AEG Live filed an insurance claim to recover losses from Michael Jackson's death the same day he died, according to a lawyer for Jackson's family.

A Phoenix police officer and firefighter both died Sunday after suffering critical injuries in separate accidents on the job, officials said.

Two FBI special agents on the agency's elite Hostage Rescue Team have been killed in a training accident in Virginia, officials said Sunday.