Obituaries

DeKalb Mayor Frank Van Buer has died at the age of 74. Van Buer, the mayor since 2005, died of pancreatic cancer on Wednesday Van Buer learned he had cancer in April and soon began undergoing chemotherapy.

State police are trying to determine who damaged a memorial for two police officers killed during a charity bike ride in 2006.

Richard Roeper, fresh off announcing that he was leaving the balcony of "At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper," may have put it best.

Dallas police Detective Paul Bentley, who helped arrest presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald at the Texas Theater, had a ready retort for those who didn't accept the official story that Oswald acted alone.

The St. Louis County medical examiner on Wednesday identified remains at the scene of an ambush at a suburban St.

Funeral services for Ellie Mae Brown will be at 10 a.m., Friday, July 25, 2008, in the Heartland Funeral Home Chapel.

Gladys Nederlander, theater and television producer and wife of George Nederlander, died yesterday.

Joseph Johnson had a lifelong dream to learn to fly. Two-and-a-half years ago, at the age of 75, Johnson achieved his dream by getting his pilot's license.

He was 65. The veteran musician died on Sunday in his Woodstock, New York home. Traum enjoyed a long and successful career as a songwriter and guitarist in New York's famed Greenwich Village music scene during ...

A combined funeral service will be held Thursday for the four teenagers from Denton who were killed in a weekend traffic crash.

Actress Estelle Getty has died at the age of 84. Her son, Carl Gettleman, says the co-star of the TV show "The Golden Girls" died early Tuesday at home in Los Angeles.

Funeral services will be held for a slain Fort Myers officer who was shot and killed during a disturbance at a downtown nightclub.

' Longtime Ridgway resident and schoolteacher George Gardner died Saturday evening while solo climbing a route on Wyoming's Grand Teton.

Jerome Holtzman - a longtime baseball writer who was inducted into the Hall of Fame, created the saves rule, and later became Major League Baseball's official historian - died Saturday in Evanston.

Artie Traum, a veteran folk songwriter and guitarist who came out of the famous Greenwich Village music scene of the '60s, is dead.

Associated Press - July 21, 2008 10:45 AM ET GRAND ISLAND, Neb. - Funeral services for a former Grand Island police chief who died over the weekend have not been set.

A grieving Waikato family who thought they had farewelled their mother at her recent funeral had no idea the body in the casket was that of a man they did not know.

June White, 86, Brookville, died Saturday, July 19, 2008. Visitation is Monday, July 21, from 5 p.m. until the 7 p.m. memorial service at Cook Funeral Home there.

William L. Tancredi Sr., 74, of Lawrence Township died on July 11, 2008, at St. Mary's Medical Center in Middletown Township, Pa.

ELSIE M. GLADDEN STALKER, 97, of LAKEWOOD, died Sunday, July 13, at home. Born in New Brunswick, she lived there and in Plainfield before moving to the Leisure Village community in Lakewood in 1969.