Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a longtime fixture on the House subcommittee that oversees Pentagon spending, has died following complications from gallbladder surgery, according to his office. He was 77.
A 26-year-old Connecticut woman and her triplets died after she gave birth at home, and it was not immediately clear why the woman didn't go to a hospital.
Robert Parker, the author of the popular "Spenser" novels about a hard-nosed Boston private investigator that inspired the long-running ABC TV show "Spenser: For Hire," has died in Massachusetts. He was 77. Robert B. Parker. - Private investigator. - spen
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Dennis deLeon, former New York City human rights commissioner and long-time AIDS activist, has died, according to the organization he helped launch. He was 61.
Argentine singer Mercedes Sosa, known as "the voice of Latin America" for her songs about the plight of the poor, died Sunday, according to an announcement on her Web site. She was 74.
William Safire, a speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon and a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for The New York Times, dies at a hospice.
Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of WWII Warsaw Ghetto uprising, dies in Warsaw at the age of 90.
AP - John Evander Couey, a convicted sex offender awaiting execution for kidnapping, raping and burying 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford alive, died of natural causes Wednesday.
Atlantic City police are investigating how a hedge fund executive fell to his death from an escalator.
