Obituaries
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Czech arts collector, patron Meda Mladkova dies at 102
May 03, 2022 7:00 am - PRAGUE (AP) - Meda Mladkova, a Czech arts collector, patron and historian who was an impassioned promoter of Frantisek Kupka and supported artists in communist Czechoslo...
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Leonard Ignelzi, renowned AP photographer, dies at 74
May 03, 2022 7:00 am - SAN DIEGO (AP) - Leonard Ignelzi, whose knack for being in the right place at the right time produced breathtaking images of Hall of Fame sports figures, devastating wil...
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Kathy Boudin, radical imprisoned in fatal heist, dies at 78
May 02, 2022 7:00 am - Kathy Boudin, a former Weather Underground radical who served more than two decades behind bars for her role in a fatal 1981 armored truck robbery and spent the latter p...
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Krueger, ex-Texas congressman and diplomat, dies at 86
May 01, 2022 7:00 am - NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas (AP) - Robert C. Krueger, who followed two U.S. House terms with a brief interim appointment to the Senate before launching a sometimes-hazardous di...
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ESSAY: For a gay country boy, Naomi Judd did build a bridge
May 01, 2022 7:00 am - Somewhere in Michigan in the early 1990s, a teenage farm boy clings to a chain-link fence at the edge of the county fairgrounds. He is angling for a distant, and free, g...
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Ricardo Alarcón, Castro confidant and top Cuban envoy, dies
May 01, 2022 7:00 am - HAVANA (AP) - Ricardo Alarcón, who was for years the head of Cuba's parliament and one of the country's most prominent diplomats, has died in Havana, authorities in Cub...
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Mower, co-inventor of implantable defibrillator, dies at 89
May 01, 2022 7:00 am - BALTIMORE (AP) - Dr. Morton Mower, a former Maryland-based cardiologist who helped invent an automatic implantable defibrillator that has helped countless heart patients...
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Weather was a passion for Grayslake student killed returning from storm chasing tripMay 01, 2022 1:00 am - Since he was a boy, Gavin Short was interested in the weather. "Once he discovered the Weather Channel on TV, it was just a passion that grew and grew inside him," his ...
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Super agent Mino Raiola dies aged 54 after long illness
Apr 30, 2022 7:00 am - MILAN (AP) - Mino Raiola, the influential and often controversial sports agent to some of soccer's biggest players, has died. He was 54. Raiola died after a long illness...
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Naomi Judd, of Grammy-winning duo The Judds, dies at 76
Apr 30, 2022 7:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Naomi Judd, whose family harmonies with daughter Wynonna turned them into the Grammy-winning country stars The Judds, has died. She was 76. Her ...