ARIEL SHARON, FORMER ISRAELI PM, DIES AT 85
By JOSEF FEDERMAN FILE – In this Wednesday Feb. 7, 2001 file photo, Ariel Sharon, then Israel’s Prime Minister-elect, looks up as he touches Judaism holiest site, the Western Wall,…
Obituaries
ACTIVIST POET-PLAYWRIGHT AMIRI BARAKA DIES AT 79
By HILLEL ITALIE FILE – This Oct. 2, 2002 file photo shows Amiri Baraka, New Jersey’s poet laureate during a ceremony at the Newark Public Library in Newark, N.J. Baraka,…
SAXOPHONIST Y– USEF LATEEF DIES AT AGE 93 IN MASS.
FILE – In this Sunday, Sept. 2, 2007, file photo, jazz flutist Yusef Lateef discusses his music in the Jazz Talk Tent at Hart Plaza at the Detroit International Jazz…
BUSINESSMAN, JEWISH ADVOCATE BRONFMAN DIES
FILE – In this Aug. 11, 1999 file photo, President Clinton, right, awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to Edgar M. Bronfman at a ceremony…
NELSON MANDELA, 20TH CENTURY COLOSSUS, DIES AT 95
By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA and MARCUS ELIASON FILE – In this March 17, 1997 file photo, South African President Nelson Mandela, left, shows the way to Britain’s Princess Diana in Cape…
PSYCHIC SYLVIA BROWNE DIES AT 77 IN CALIFORNIA
By JOHN ROGERS and CHANNING JOSEPH This undated image released by HarperOne shows psychic and author Sylvia Browne. Browne, a psychic whose frequent appearances on shows such as “Larry King…
Key Syrian rebel leader dies of wounds
By DIAA HADID In this Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Tawhid Brigade, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Abdul-Qadir Saleh,…
Colo. funeral set for astronaut Carpenter
By DAN ELLIOTTBOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Astronaut Scott Carpenter is being remembered by friends, family members and dignitaries at a funeral service in Colorado on Saturday. Carpenter, who grew up…