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Hundreds of city workers and community members went to at San Francisco's City Hall to mourn the death of Mayor Ed Lee and hear acting Mayor London Breed honor Lee. They crowded on a balcony outside the mayor's office on the second floor Tuesday overlooking the building's main floor and swarmed upper floors as Breed gave a short speech honoring Lee as a sweet and humble man who she said never wanted to be a politician.
Ed Lee, San Francisco's 43rd mayor, died early Tuesday at the Zuckerberg general hospital in the city, reports said. He was 65. "It is with profound sadness and terrible grief that we confirm that Mayor Edwin M. Lee passed away on Tuesday, December 12 at 1:11 a.m. at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.
Journalism's response must be to tell the president - politely, with all due respect to the office - to stuff it. Mamie Till Mobley weeps at her son's funeral on Sept.
Kids bike in an area without grid power or running water about two weeks after Hurricane Maria swept through the island on Oct. 5, 2017 in San Isidro, Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico's death toll from Hurricane Maria -- which slammed into the U.S. territory September 20 as a Category 4 storm -- has risen to 64, the island's Department of Public Safety announced Saturday.
The number of people who died in Puerto Rico because of Hurricane Maria has risen to 64, the island's Department of Public Safety said Saturday. The government added two more storm-related deaths to the official total.
Funeral services for Mr. Ronel D. Hawkins, SMSgt , USAF, 79, of New Braunfels, Texas, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 13, in the Lux Funeral Home Chapel in New Braunfels. Interment with full military honors will be held at 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 20, in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.
Martinez and his partner were brutally beaten in Texas' Big Bend sector. A 36-year-old father, Martinez died from head injuries sustained while being battered with rocks; his partner survived, but is reported to be having trouble remembering.
The suspect in the shooting death of a state trooper during a Thanksgiving Day traffic stop in East Texas was charged Friday with capital murder of a law enforcement officer. Dabrett Black, 32, was being held in the Brazos County jail in Bryan, Texas, about 270 miles southwest of Texarkana.
In this Nov. 15, 2017 photo, Dan Welch, 65, of Smithfield, Ill., holds up pictures and military records of his dad, Woodrow "Woody" Welch, who was a 1st Sgt. in the U.S. Army during WWII.
The suspect in the shooting death of a state trooper during a Thanksgiving Day traffic stop in East Texas was charged Friday with capital murder of a law enforcement officer. Dabrett Black, 32, was being held in the Brazos County jail in Bryan, Texas, about 100 miles northwest of Houston.
The suspect in the fatal shooting of a state trooper in East Texas during a Thanksgiving Day traffic stop was charged Friday with capital murder of a law enforcement officer. Dabrett Black, 32, was being held in the Brazos County jail in Bryan, Texas, about 100 miles northwest of Houston.
The Texas Department of Public Safety released a statement on its Twitter account Thursday night identifying the trooper as Damon Allen, 41. DPS said Allen joined the department in 2002 and was married with three children. Allen was shot and killed before 4 p.m. Thursday during a traffic stop on Interstate 45 near Fairfield, about 90 miles south of Dallas, according to DPS.
The Texas Department of Public Safety released a statement on its Twitter account Thursday night identifying the trooper as Damon Allen, 41. DPS said Allen joined the department in 2002 and was married with three children. Allen was shot and killed before 4 p.m. Thursday during a traffic stop on Interstate 45 near Fairfield, about 90 miles south of Dallas, according to DPS.
Former U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, a veteran lawmaker known for pressing to protect the environment during a career that spanned from the era of the Love Canal toxic waste site to the recent debate over natural-gas fracking, has died. He was 79. Hinchey, a Democrat, died Wednesday at his home in Saugerties, in the Hudson Valley, his family said in a statement on his Facebook page.
AMATULLI, Joseph P. 87, went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, November 15, 2017. He was welcomed with open arms by his loving wife Josephine of 63 years and his son Daniel.
It will probably be a couple of days before Charles Manson is laid to rest, assuming they can find someplace willing to allow his cursed body to be lowered into their ground. But he died much as he had lived for most of the last half century imprisoned, but still the focus of an endless media circus which seemed to feed him in some twisted way.
In this May 29, 2017, file photo, Bette Midler, left, and Liz Smith attend the New York Restoration Project's 13th Annual Spring Picnic at Riverside Park in New York. Smith, a gossip columnist whose mixture of banter, barbs, and bon mots about the glitterati helped her climb the A-list as high as many of the celebrities she covered, has died.
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas After a week of sorrow and loss, faith and resolve were reaffirmed in a big tent in a little town. The First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, site of the worst mass shooting in Texas history, held a service Sunday as it has for decades.
By CLAUDIA LAUER, Associated Press SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas - Two silver hearses carrying the bodies of a couple killed in last weekend's shooting at a Texas church were followed by a long procession of vehicles Saturday that avoided passing the small church where more than two dozen people died.
First responders and law enforcement personnel stood with heads bowed Saturday in Sutherland Springs for a Veterans Day ceremony that also was meant to honor the more than two dozen people killed a block away at a church. About 100 people attended the ceremony outside the town's community center, where a wreath was placed near flags to remember those killed in last weekend's mass shooting, nearly half of whom had ties to the Air Force.