Posts in category Obituaries

Staff Report NORTH MIAMI, Fla. – In a surprise visit to North Miami, Melky Jean, recording artist Wyclef Jean’s younger sister, and her mother transformed …

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Family and friends of Evelyn Dieckhaus, one of three children who were killed in a school shooting in Nashville this week, …

BOSTON (AP) – Longtime Boston civil rights activist Mel King, whose 1983 campaign for mayor helped the city begin to repair some of the racial …

PITTSBURGH (AP) – Scattered in crates, dirty and difficult to read, the gospel music of composer Charles Henry Pace sat packed away, unorganized – and …

Irvo Otieno had realized his passion: making hip-hop. He could write a song in less than five minutes. And he was streaming his music under …

NEW YORK (AP) – Lance Reddick, a character actor who specialized in intense, icy and possibly sinister authority figures on TV and film, including "The …

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century …

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – James Abourezk, a South Dakota Democrat who grew up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, became the first Arab American U.S. …

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – Gérard Latortue, a former interim prime minister of Haiti who helped rebuild and unite the country after a violent …

MANKER FUNERAL HOME  Rudolph Fred Collier, 58, construction worker, died February 16 at his residence. Memorial service 3pm Saturday. Jaelani Heiress Joe-St Luc, 2 hours …