Bill Tapia, virtuoso ukulele player, dies at 103
Bill Tapia, a virtuoso ukulele player from Hawaii who learned to strum the instrument at age 7, performed for U.S. troops during World War I and was still touring and teaching well after hitting the...
View ArticleFormer HP chair Dunn, 58, dies after cancer bout
Patricia Dunn, the former Hewlett-Packard Co. chairwoman who authorized a boardroom surveillance probe that ultimately sullied her remarkable rise from investment bank typist to the corporate upper...
View ArticlePoland's Villas, Las Vegas star in 1960s, dies
She was a coloratura soprano who spurned opera for popular music, a Polish singer who became a caberet star in Las Vegas, an artist trapped for years behind the Iron Curtain when she flew home to tend...
View ArticleJames Robert Christian, first black Miami-Dade motorcycle officer, dies at 77
James Robert Christian, the first black graduate of the Miami-Dade Police Department’s police academy, as well as the first black officer on motorcycle and mounted patrol— aboard...
View ArticleResurgent soul singer Howard Tate dies in NJ at 72
Soul singer Howard Tate, who got a second chance at a musical career three decades after being derailed by disputes with industry executives, personal tragedy and drug addiction, has died at age 72.
View ArticleCharlotte Barkan, 83, early UM law grad, dies
Charlotte Joy Barkan, who joined the Florida Bar when female lawyers were rare and went on to appear as co-counsel before the U.S. Supreme Court, has died. She was 83.
View ArticleStanley Robertson, pioneering black TV executive, dies at 85
Stanley Robertson, who broke color barriers as a pioneering black network television program executive at NBC in the 1960s and '70s and later as a movie studio production executive, has died. He was 85.
View ArticleBarbara Orbison, widow of Roy Orbison, dies in LA
Barbara Orbison, widow of rock n' roll pioneer Roy Orbison, died Tuesday on the 23rd anniversary of her husband's death, a family spokeswoman said. She was 60.
View Article'M-A-S-H' star Harry Morgan dies at age 96
Harry Morgan never planned to be an actor, yet he spent 10 years on one of the top TV series of all time, made 50 films and appeared on Broadway. He became one of the best-known character actors in...
View ArticleHarry Morgan, star of TV's 'MASH,' dies at 96
Emmy Award-winning actor Harry Morgan, who played the crusty yet sympathetic Col. Sherman T. Potter in the sitcom "MASH" and the hard-nosed LAPD Officer Bill Gannon in the television drama "Dragnet,"...
View ArticlePop singer Dobie Gray dead in Nashville at age 69
Dobie Gray was more than a smooth balladeer who recorded the timeless hit "Drift Away" in 1973.
View ArticleObituary: Martha Gifford Parker Melahn, 87, of pioneering Coconut Grove family
During the 1950s, convention dictated that the wife of a prominent professional stay home to raise the children.
View ArticleWidow of singer Roy Orbison dies of cancer
When singer Roy Orbison was touring England in 1968, it had been four years since he last appeared at the top of the charts with "Oh, Pretty Woman." He had continued playing live and recording long...
View ArticleDiana Colbert, wife of author Charles Bock, dies
Diana Joy Colbert, the wife of author Charles Bock whose battle with leukemia inspired widespread sympathy and support among the New York literary community, died Thursday. She was 41.
View ArticleJames Robert Christian, first black Miami-Dade motorcycle officer, dies at 77
James Robert Christian, the first black graduate of the Miami-Dade Police Department’s police academy, as well as the first black officer on motorcycle and mounted patrol— aboard...
View ArticleJerry Robinson, 'Batman' illustrator, dies at 89
Jerry Robinson, a pioneer in the early days of Batman comics and a key force in the creation of Robin the Boy Wonder; the Joker; Bruce Wayne's butler, Alfred; and Two-Face, has died in New York City....
View ArticleRobert Lawrence Balzer, critic and author who championed Calif. wine...
Robert Lawrence Balzer, a wine critic and educator who wrote an influential column in the Los Angeles Times for three decades during a career that stretched from the post-Prohibition era through the...
View ArticleJerry Robinson, Batman's Joker artist, dies in NY
Comic book industry pioneer Jerry Robinson, who helped create Batman sidekick Robin the Boy Wonder and their arch-nemesis The Joker, has died at age 89.
View ArticleCorrection: Barbara Orbison obituary story
In a Dec. 7 obituary of Barbara Orbison, widow of Roy Orbison, The Associated Press, relying on information from a publicist, erroneously reported that she was 60 and died at Los Angeles County-USC...
View ArticleHector Silva, moderate leftist San Salvador mayor
SAN SALVADOR (AP) – A Boston-born Salvadoran physician who helped the Central American nation recover from its 12-year civil war has died of a heart attack. Hector Silva was 64.
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