Sportswriter Furman Bisher dies at 93
Famed Georgia sportswriter Furman Bisher, who covered everything from major golf tournaments to the Triple Crown during a career that spanned six decades, died Sunday of a massive heart attack outside...
View ArticlePeter Goodwin, who helped craft Death With Dignity Act, dies at 83
In 1970 a man with terminal bone cancer came to see Dr. Peter Goodwin, who practiced family medicine in Portland, Ore. The man had intractable pain and saw no point in prolonging his suffering. He...
View ArticleNathan L. Chroman, Beverly Hills lawyer and wine writer, dies at 83
Nathan L. Chroman, a Beverly Hills attorney and wine enthusiast who wrote an influential weekly column for the Los Angeles Times during the rise of the California wine industry in the 1970s and '80s,...
View ArticleCuban poet, songwriter Elena Casals dies at 85
Elena “Mimi” Casals, a Cuban poet and songwriter who made her Miami home a center for exile Cuban writers and musicians, died Saturday at her home in Nashville, with her family at...
View ArticleMontana mining town's last madam dies at 94
Ruby Garrett ran the last brothel standing in this mining town's once-lively red-light district with a reputation for kindness toward her girls, but the grandmotherly figure was also a...
View ArticleSanford McDonnell, former McDonnell Douglas CEO, dies at 89
Sanford "Sandy" McDonnell, the former chief executive of aerospace giant McDonnell Douglas Corp. who in the 1970s helped turn around the company started by his uncle, died Monday. He was 89.
View ArticleDorothy Townsend, L.A. Times reporter who broke newsroom barrier, dies at 88
LOS ANGELES - The only woman in a sea of men in suits, Dorothy Townsend can't help but stand out in the official photograph of the Los Angeles Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for coverage...
View ArticlePioneering LA Times writer Dorothy Townsend dies
Dorothy Townsend, the first female staff writer for the Los Angeles Times' city section and the lone woman on a team of dozens of reporters, photographers and editors that won a Pulitzer Prize for...
View ArticlePioneering variety TV producer Bob Henry dies
Bob Henry, a producer and director of television variety shows including "The Nat King Cole Show" and "The Flip Wilson Show," has died.
View ArticleJack O’Brien, local TV host for three decades, dies
As a local television weatherman and pitchman in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, there was little Jack O’Brien didn’t do to entertain his viewers.
View ArticleBagel guru Murray Lender dies at age 81 in Miami-Dade
Murray Lender, who helped turn his father's small Connecticut bakery into a national company that introduced bagels to many Americans for the first time, has died in Florida. He was 81.
View ArticleMother of NYC activist Rev. Al Sharpton dies
The 87-year-old mother of the Rev. Al Sharpton has died.
View ArticleCo-developer of Mr. Coffee machines dies in Ohio
Samuel L. Glazer, co-owner of the company that revolutionized American mornings with the Mr. Coffee drip coffeemaker, has died at age 89.
View ArticleEx-Maine justice, legislator Collins Jr. dies
A longtime legislator and former Maine supreme court justice has died. Samuel Collins Jr. was 88.
View ArticleBob Henry, TV producer and director, dies at 92
Bob Henry, an Emmy Award-winning television variety-show producer and director who produced Nat "King" Cole's groundbreaking musical variety program in the 1950s and helped make Flip Wilson a household...
View ArticleThomas P. Puccio, lawyer who won convictions in the Abscam scandal, dies at 67
Thomas P. Puccio, a former federal prosecutor who won the convictions of several members of Congress in the Abscam bribery scandal in the early 1980s and later became a prominent defense lawyer who...
View ArticleAP staffer who reported Sino-Soviet split dies
Born in a Japanese fishing village just after his refugee family landed there in a desperate 1919 escape from Russia's Bolshevik revolution, Roy Essoyan arrived in the Soviet Union nearly four decades...
View ArticleGary Rivenbark, vocal coach to X-Factor winner and Plantation choir teacher,...
The longtime chorus teacher at Plantation High School who helped teach “X Factor” winner Melanie Amaro to sing died this week of lymphoma at age 48.
View ArticleJohn Payton, top civil rights lawyer, dies at 65
Civil rights lawyer John Payton, who defended the University of Michigan's affirmative action policy before the Supreme Court and led the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, has died. He was 65.
View ArticleMarje Everett, legendary figure in horse racing, dies at 90
Marje Everett, a legendary and controversial figure in the sport of horse racing for more than four decades and the chief executive of the Hollywood Park racetrack for six years, has died. She was 90.
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