Obituaries
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Longtime St. Petersburg Times columnist Mizell dies at 76
Mar 03, 2016 6:00 am - GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Hubert Mizell's home office was a sports museum, with pictures of famous athletes hanging on the walls and mementos from a storied career spanni...
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Latest: Thunder, NBA mourn death of McClendon
Mar 02, 2016 6:00 am - OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The Latest on former Chesapeake Energy Chief Executive Officer Aubrey McClendon, who was killed in a car crash one day after he was indicted by a fe...
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Former New Zealand cricket captain Martin Crowe dead at 53
Mar 02, 2016 6:00 am - WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Martin Crowe, a cricketer of prodigious talent who made batting appear effortless while secretly struggling with the burden of being a wor...
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'Coronation Street' creator Tony Warren dies at 79
Mar 02, 2016 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - British writer Tony Warren, who created the long-running soap opera "Coronation Street," has died at 79. The show he leaves behind is 56 years old, a natio...
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Pioneering Oklahoma energy CEO dies in fiery car crash
Mar 02, 2016 6:00 am - OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Aubrey McClendon, a natural gas industry titan, was killed when police say he drove his sport utility vehicle "straight into a wall" in Oklahoma Cit...
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Reaction to the death Thursday of Martin Crowe
Mar 02, 2016 6:00 am - WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Reaction on Thursday to the death of former New Zealand cricket captain Martin Crowe, from lymphoma at the age of 53: ____ "My champion, m...
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UK author Louise Rennison, witty writer for teens, dies
Mar 01, 2016 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - British writer Louise Rennison, author of the hit young-adult novel "Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging," has died. Her publisher, HarperCollins, twee...
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Jim Kimsey, AOL co-founder, dies at 76
Mar 01, 2016 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Jim Kimsey, the co-founder of Web pioneer AOL, has died of cancer at age 76. He died Tuesday morning in his home in McLean, Virginia, said his son, Mark ...
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Lee Reherman, 'Hawk' on 'American Gladiators,' dead at 49
Mar 01, 2016 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Lee Reherman, the former Ivy League football star who shot to fame as the towering, muscular Hawk on the popular 1990s television show "American Gladi...
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Elmhurst doctor remembered for commitment to familyMar 01, 2016 12:00 am - Dr. Richard Marshall Cronin, the father of DuPage County Board Chairman Dan Cronin, is being remembered for his commitment to patients, friends and, most of all, family....