Miami-Dade Army soldier killed in Afghanistan
Before he joined the U.S. Army, Amaru Aguilar’s great passion was tae kwon do.
View ArticleAmerican Heritage coach succumbs to cancer
Donald L. Ullmann, a longtime, multi-sport coach at both campuses of American Heritage School, died at his Delray Beach home Saturday of the cancer he’d been fighting since 2004.
View ArticlePat Mayers, Fort Lauderdale anti-crime crusader, dies at 66
Pat Mayers, a longtime neighborhood activist who fought to clear Fort Lauderdale streets of crime, has died. She was 66.
View ArticleTheodora ‘Teddi’ Remas, 76, taught foreign pilots how to...
Teddi Remas, who taught foreign pilots the English terminology they needed to communicate with control towers, and wrote general-interest stories for Vista, an English-language magazine for Hispanic...
View ArticleIantha Smith Whittaker, 100
Iantha Smith Whittaker learned to swim in her 40s — then spent more than half a century making up for lost time.
View ArticleLeonard Turkel, builder, human rights activist, dies
Leonard Turkel fell in love with South Florida as an airman and returned to craft a better future for it.
View ArticleAlysia Wilson, Commerce project director, dies of cancer
Alysia Michele Wilson, a Coral Gables native who became the U.S. Commerce Department’s project director for Latin America, died May 30, just 12 months after being diagnosed with Stage 4...
View ArticleJames Woodman, adventurer/author, dies
Travel writer Jim Woodman explored remote corners of Latin America, and delighted in showing them to tourists.
View ArticleClara M. Luper, Okla. civil rights activist who led lunch counter sit-ins, dies
Clara M. Luper, a black civil rights activist in Oklahoma whose early leadership of lunch counter sit-ins helped break down racial barriers at restaurants and diners nearly two years before the...
View ArticleLynn Mintz, worked for bicycle safety
On March 7, 1984, a man driving a 1979 Ford knocked Lynn Mintz’s world off its axis.
View ArticleHershel K. Swinger, founder of program to aid urban fathers, dies at 72
Hershel K. Swinger, a children's advocate who was nationally recognized for his work helping disadvantaged fathers develop better parenting skills, died May 23 at his Baldwin Hills home in the Los...
View ArticleAlan Rubin, Blues Brothers trumpeter, dies at 68
Trumpet player Alan Rubin was recruited to join the Blues Brothers after backing up John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd in the "Saturday Night Live" television skits that spawned the band in the late 1970s.
View ArticleCoretta Scott King's older sister dies in Pa.
Edythe Scott Bagley, the older sister of Coretta Scott King, died in her Pennsylvania home, the family said Sunday. She was 86.
View ArticleCorrection: Obit-Windham
In a June 12 obituary about Kathryn Tucker Windham, The Associated Press erroneously reported that she had two children. Windham had three children: Two daughters, one of whom preceded her in death,...
View ArticleRobert Helliwell, engineer who expanded understanding of atmosphere, dies at 90
Robert Helliwell, a Stanford electrical engineer whose study of radio waves emitted by lightning opened a new window to understanding the upper layers of the Earth's atmosphere, died May 3 in Palo...
View ArticleGunnar Fischer, cinematographer known for work on Bergman films, dies at 100
Gunnar Fischer, a cinematographer best known for films he made with Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman including 1957's "The Seventh Seal," has died. He was 100.
View ArticleCarl Gardner, Coasters lead singer, dies at 83
Carl Gardner, original lead singer of the R&B group the Coasters, has died in Florida. He was 83.
View Article1st Libertarian presidential nominee Hospers dies
John Hospers, a philosophy professor who in 1972 became the Libertarian Party's first presidential candidate, died in Los Angeles. He was 93.
View ArticleLaura Ziskin, producer of 'Spider-Man' movies, dies at 61
When disagreements between some of Hollywood's most powerful people began to roil plans for a fourth "Spider-Man" movie several years ago, some in the entertainment industry were advising filmmakers to...
View ArticleGordon Foster, helped desegregate schools, dies
Gordon Foster lived to help those who could not help themselves.
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