Obituaries in the News

A monstrous tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school. At least 24 people...

Mack Emerman, the founder of Criteria Recording Studios where acts including Eric Clapton, James Brown and the Bee Gees made some of their most famous records,...

Boruch Spiegel, one of the last remaining survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazi German force that occupied Poland, has died. He was 93.

The wife of the president of the Mormon church has died. Frances B. Monson, 85, died early Friday morning at a hospital in Salt Lake City, The Church of Jesus...

Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist who was a founding member of The Doors, has died in Germany. He was 74.

Bernard Waber, the author of such children's favorites as "The House on East 88th Street" and "Lyle, Lyle Crocodile," has died at his home in New York.

Ken Venturi, who overcame dehydration to win the 1964 U.S. Open and spent 35 years in the booth for CBS Sports, died Friday afternoon. He was 82.

Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla died Friday while serving life sentences in prison for crimes against humanity.