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Oscar-winning actor Martin Landau died Saturday at age 89 from "unexpected complications" while he was hospitalized at UCLA Medical Center, according to Fox News. NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 24: Actor Martin Landau attends the "The Last Poker Game" Premiere - 2017 Tribeca Film Festival at Regal Battery Park Cinemas on April 24, 2017 in New York City.
Maryam Mirzakhani, the first and only woman to win the prestigious Fields Medal, called the Nobel Prize of math, died on Saturday. Mirzakhani was a professor at Stanford University, which made the announcement, saying she had breast cancer that spread to her bones.
For an elite band of U.S. Marines known as the Raiders, the fiery military plane crash this week in Mississippi represents a second devastating blow during training in less than three years. Six Marines and a Navy corpsman who were part of a Marine Raider unit died this week on their way to training exercises.
John P. Gretka, age 79 of Farwell, passed away Tuesday, July 4, 2017 at his home surrounded by his family. John was born the son of John and Hazel Gretka on July 24, 1938 in Detroit.
He flung dishes at his wife, roared at the television, erupted during an outing at a local brewery. Suzanne Hodgkinson became so concerned with her husband's growing anger that she wrote to his doctor asking for help.
The National Bureau of Investigation has joined the probe into the gruesome killing of five members of the Carlos family in San Jose del Monte, Bulacan last June 27. "Some people wanted the NBI to take a second look at the findings," Department of Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II said yesterday. The Secretary has already issued Department Order No.
Aubrey Whelan is a staff writer assigned to the enterprise team. Since joining the Inquirerin 2012, she has covered crime in Philadelphia and everything in Chester County.
'Mad as hell,' Philando Castile's mother reacts to not guilty verdict "My son loved this city, and this city killed my son," Valerie Castile said. Check out this story on ElPasoTimes.com: https://usat.ly/2szpD0D A Minnesota police officer has been acquitted of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a black motorist.
Alvin Julius Zunker Jr., 89, of San Antonio, died Wednesday, June 7, 2017, at Highland Nursing Home in San Antonio. Mr. Zunker was born Dec. 18, 1927, to Adela and Alvin Julius Zunker Sr. He was a 1945 graduate of Karnes City High School, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and a retired machinist with the Lone Star Brewery in San Antonio.
Driven by her mother's death in 2011, Sheila Van Pelt has become one of the state's most effective citizen lobbyists. From her home in Plymouth, Sheila Van Pelt types on a laptop with two scraps of paper taped below the keypad.
Adam West, Straight-Faced Star of TV's 'Batman,' Dies at 88 - The actor struggled to find work after the campy superhero series was canceled, but he rebounded with voiceover gigs, including one as the mayor of Quahog on 'Family Guy.' - Adam West, the ardent actor who managed to keep Adam West, TV's 'Batman,' Dies at 88 - Adam West - an actor defined and also constrained by his role in the 1960s series "Batman" - died Friday night in Los Angeles.
Leslie grew up in Martinsburg. He graduated from Hedgesville High School. Two years after graduating, he joined the United States Air Force, which he made a career of for 20 years.
Constantine Mitsotakis, the Greek prime minister who strengthened ties with the European Union and attempted unpopular cuts to state spending in the 1990s, has died. He was 98. Mitsotakis became prime minister in April 1990 when his New Democracy party won the right to govern on its own after nine years in opposition or as a coalition partner.
Former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Jim Bunning throws out the ceremonial first pitch before Game 5 of Major League Baseball's World Series in Philadelphia, October 27, 2008. Hall of Fame pitcher and two-term U.S. Senator Jim Bunning has died, members of his family said Saturday.
Former U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski arrives to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 1, 2007. REUTERS/Jim Young/File Photo Zbigniew Brzezinski, the hawkish strategic theorist who was national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter in the tumultuous years of the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the late 1970s, died on Friday at a hospital in Virginia.
David Spencer Ballard, 55, of 74 Ellington Road, Kittrell, died May 17, 2017, at Duke Medicine Pavilion. He was born in Vance County to David Lee Ballard and Carolyn LeMay Ballard.
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A Mississippi state lawmaker who called for the lynching of Louisiana officials for removing pro-slavery era monuments apologized on Monday after his comments sparked a firestorm of criticism. Republican Representative Karl Oliver had taken to Facebook on Saturday to criticize the removal of monuments in New Orleans that city leaders deemed racially offensive.