Obituaries
-
Notable deaths this week: ABC news medical reporter; ex-ambassador who saved Americans in IranOct 17, 2015 1:00 am - • Jamie Zimmerman, a doctor and reporter with ABC News' medical unit, has drowned while on vacation in Hawaii. She was 31. Zimmerman apparently lost her footing while tr...
-
Red Sox 'lifetime' scout has died; hit flies to Yaz
Oct 16, 2015 7:00 am - BOSTON (AP) - The Red Sox are mourning the death of former prospect and scout Chuck Koney. The team says Koney died on Monday in Orland Park, Illinois, at the age of 90....
-
Leader behind Vermont aid-in-dying law uses it, ends life
Oct 16, 2015 7:00 am - MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Richard "Dick" Walters, a leader in the effort to get the state to pass aid-in-dying legislation, used the rules established under the law to end ...
-
Canadian envoy who hid Americans during hostage crisis dies
Oct 15, 2015 7:00 am - TORONTO (AP) - Ken Taylor, Canada's ambassador to Iran who sheltered Americans at his residence during the 1979 hostage crisis, has died. He was 81. Taylor's wife, Pat, ...
-
Hollywood golden age ingénue Joan Leslie dies at 90
Oct 15, 2015 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Joan Leslie, whose expressive almond eyes and innocent beauty made her one of the most popular film ingénues of the 1930s and 40s, has died at the ag...
-
ABC News doctor Jamie Zimmerman dies in Hawaiian accident
Oct 15, 2015 7:00 am - HONOLULU (AP) - Jamie Zimmerman, a doctor and reporter with ABC News' medical unit, has drowned while on vacation in Hawaii. She was 31. Zimmerman apparently lost her fo...
-
Former Patriots offensive lineman Adams, 67, dies in Houston
Oct 14, 2015 7:00 am - HOUSTON (AP) - Former New England Patriots offensive lineman Sam Adams has died in Houston at the age of 67. Adams became ill at his Houston home last Saturday and died ...
-
American Nobel laureate Richard Heck is buried in Manila
Oct 13, 2015 7:00 am - MANILA, Philippines (AP) - American Nobel laureate for chemistry Richard Heck, who designed a method of building complex molecules that has helped fight cancer, protect ...
-
Sybil Stockdale, who fought to end torture of POWs, dies
Oct 13, 2015 7:00 am - CORONADO, Calif. (AP) - Sybil Bailey Stockdale, a Navy wife who fought to end the torture of U.S. prisoners of war in Vietnam, has died. Stockdale's son, Sid Stockdale, ...
-
James Taylor's mother dies at Martha's Vineyard home at 92
Oct 12, 2015 7:00 am - CHILMARK, Mass. (AP) - The mother of Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter James Taylor has died at age 92. Gertrude Woodard Taylor died over the weekend surrounded by ...