Obituaries in the News

Best-selling author Vince Flynn, who wrote the Mitch Rapp counterterrorism thriller series, died Wednesday in Minnesota after a battle with prostate cancer. He...

Former New York Giants punter and radio analyst Dave Jennings has died. He was 61.

Jim Holshouser, who was North Carolina's first Republican governor of the 20th century, has died. He was 78.

Bernard "Bernie" Sahlins, who co-founded Chicago's Second City theater and who nurtured the early careers of many of "Saturday Night Live's" biggest stars over...

Country singer Slim Whitman, the high-pitched yodeler who sold millions of records and whose song saved the world in the film comedy "Mars Attacks!," died...

Award-winning journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings died early Tuesday in a car accident in Los Angeles, his employer and family said.

Tennis great Gene Mako, who won four major doubles titles and was ranked in the world top 10 during the 1930s, has died in Southern California. He was 97 years...

Thomas Penfield Jackson, who as a federal judge in Washington presided over a Microsoft antitrust case and the drug possession trial of former Mayor Marion...