Obituaries

But in real life it looks like the actual King Richard III of England ended up buried under what later became a parking lot, archaeologists have confirmed in a study.

Haynes Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who migrated from newspapers to television, books and teaching, died Friday.

A federal judge has ruled that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically racially profiled Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols.

Some 300 mourners crowded inside Eagle Heights Baptist Church here Friday to pay their respects to an elementary school student killed when a tornado churned through nearby Moore, Oklahoma.

Dick Evey, a former first-round draft pick who played eight seasons in the NFL, has died at the age of 72.

After their 2-year-old son died of untreated pneumonia in 2009, faith-healing advocates Herbert and Catherine Schaible promised a judge they would not let another sick child go without medical care.

A bouquet of flowers in a can wrapped in a photo is seen as visitors pause along the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington D.C. President Richard Nixon declared Memorial Day a federal holiday on the last Monday in May.

If you thought being found buried under a parking lot was about as unroyal as it could get for King Richard III, think again.

A MAN has been charged with the death of Kyhesha-Lee Joughin, a three-year-old found dead at her Petrie home at Easter this year.

A firefighter walks in front of the burning Sofa Super Store in Charleston, S.C., Monday, June 18, 2007.

Did a rapper fake his own death, using the hip-hop media to announce that he died? It looks like this may be the case as rapper Tim Dog was said to have passed away in February but he may still be walking the earth today.

"We are just heartbroken. I prayed all the way here and I will pray all the way home," said Laurie Amos of St.

Lack of a death certificate or of a burial site and sparse obituary information led to talk in hip-hop circles that rapper Tim Dog, who owes thousands of dollars to women he was convicted of swindling, faked his own death in February.

The Dr. Pepper Snapple Group Inc. of Plano, Texas, which now owns Snapple, on Thursday confirmed Marsh's death.

A massive tornado was carving its way through town. There was no time to hesitate.

A teenager was arrested Thursday in the deaths of his two younger brothers, ages 4 and 10, at the family home in a Utah subdivision of new homes and tidy lawns, police said.

The tragedy at Plaza Towers Elementary took a new turn Thursday with the the first of seven funeral services for the children killed three days earlier when a massive tornado smashed the school to pieces.

Tornado survivors thanked God, sturdy closets and luck in explaining how they lived through the colossal twister that devastated an Oklahoma town and killed 24 people, an astonishingly low toll given the extent of destruction.

A funeral will be held this weekend for a veteran Dallas firefighter who died after being trapped battling a blaze at a condominium complex.

Police from all over Bergen County celebrated the second annual Blue Mass honoring law enforcement officers who gave their lives in the line of duty at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Ridgewood Wednesday morning.