LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Longtime college administrator Lew Perkins, who played basketball at Iowa before serving as the athletic director at several universities and taking on an influential role within the NCAA, died Tuesday. He was 78.Perkins' family announced his death in a statement issued ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Funny Cide, the “Gutsy Gelding” who became a fan favorite after winning the Kentucky Derby and Preakness in 2003, has died from complications of colic. He was 23.<a ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Rolfe Neill, a longtime newspaperman and editor who led The Charlotte Observer as its publisher when it won a pair of Pulitzer Prizes for public service, died Friday at age 90.Neill, a North Carolina native whose journalism career included two stops in Charlotte between ...
HONOLULU – A surf photography pioneer who was among the first to shoot his own images as he rode inside massive, barreling waves has died after a surfing accident in Indonesia. Mikala Jones was 44.Jones had gone out into the ocean Sunday morning during a trip to the Mentawai Islands off the ...
LOS ANGELES – C.R. Roberts, whose record-setting performance helped Southern California beat Texas in a 1956 road game played in the segregated state, has died. He was 87.Roberts died of natural causes on Tuesday at a care facility in suburban Norwalk, the university said Wednesday after ...
The suspect in the 1982 Tylenol poisonings that killed seven people in the Chicago area, triggered a nationwide panic, and led to an overhaul in the safety of over-the-counter medication packaging, has died, police said on Monday.Officers, firefighters and EMTs responding to a report of an ...
