Thoroughbred owner waged a four-year court battle over the disqualification of Dancer's Image because of a drug found in the colt's system.
Peter Fuller, who never fully accepted the ruling that stripped the 1968 Kentucky Derby crown from his thoroughbred Dancer's Image, died Monday of cancer at a skilled-care facility in Portsmouth, N.H., his family said. He was 89.
NEW YORK — Mary Richardson Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was found dead on the family’s property north of New York City on Wednesday, two years after her husband filed for divorce and following a history of drug and alcohol problems.
A towering literary figure at home and abroad, he was pivotal in raising the profile of the hemisphere's Spanish-language writing in the second half of the 20th century.
If Carlos Fuentes could have invented the perfect character to star in one of his novels, he might have come up with a protagonist named Carlos Fuentes.
By Reed Johnson and Ken Ellingwood, Los Angeles Times
Harold Poling steered the automaker through the recessions of the early 1980s and early '90s. He also approved spending $3 billion to engineer the Taurus.
Harold A. "Red" Poling, a former Ford Motor Co. chairman and chief executive officer who helped lead the automaker through two recessions, has died. He was 86.
As a key part of the integrated house band at Memphis' Stax Records, Dunn set the funky tone for soul hits from Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett and Sam & Dave. He later joined John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd in the Blues Brothers.
As the bass player on dozens of the most soulful hits in the history of pop music, Donald "Duck" Dunn often found himself out on the road playing to fans who had assumed he was black like the stars he supported, notably Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett and Sam & Dave.
Joyce Redman, a veteran of the London and Broadway stage, earned Oscar nominations for 'Othello' and for 'Tom Jones,' in which she had an erotically charged dinner-eating scene opposite Albert Finney.
Joyce Redman, a two-time Oscar-nominated Irish-born actress whose erotically charged dinner-eating scene opposite Albert Finney was a highlight of the bawdy 1963 British film comedy "Tom Jones," has died. She was 96.
His accounts of the rich and famous often were criticized as inaccurate or dishonest, including a book on heiress Barbara Hutton that was recalled. But that didn't keep his other works from making the bestseller list.
C. David Heymann, a bestselling biographer whose titillating accounts of famous lives often were criticized as inaccurate or dishonest, including a book on heiress Barbara Hutton that was recalled because of factual disputes, has died. He was 67.
By Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times
Mon May 14 01:00:00 UTC 2012
KCSG Obituaries
Virginia Mae Cort Hunsicker
(May 1, 1926 - May 14, 2012)
(St. George, UT) - Virginia Mae Cort Hunsicker passed away on May 14, 2012 at the St. George Care and Rehab Center after a brief illness. She was born May 1, 1926 in Detroit, Michigan and graduated...
Dustin Burnett
Oct 30, 1983 - May 13, 2012
(St. George, UT) - Dustin Ray Burnett passed away on May 13, 2012. He was born October 30, 1983 in Price, Utah to James Robert and Karen Allen Burnett. He married Annalee Childs on April 22, 2006 ...
Roger Marquez
(July 22, 1988 - May 12, 2012)
(Overton, NV) - Jose Rogelio “Roger” Marquez, 23, died May 12, 2012, in Overton, Nevada. He was born July 22, 1988 to Jose Marquez and Maria Soccorro Alvarado in Odessa, Texas. Roger moved to Moapa...
Max Verdell Booth
(January 12, 1925 - May 15, 2012)
(ST. GEORGE, UT) - Max Verdell Booth, age 87, passed away Tuesday, May 15, 2012 in St. George, Utah. He was born January 12, 1925 in Provo, Utah to Willard Verdell and LaVaun Nance Booth. Max is ...
Don Ollerton
Oct 01, 1927 - May 07, 2012
(St. George, UT) - Don Ladell Ollerton passed away peacefully on May 7, 2012 in St. George, Utah. Don was born in Fairview, Utah on October 1, 1927. He was the youngest of ten children born to Seth...
Cal Barton Decker
November 7, 1927 - May 7, 2012
(Parowan, UT) - Cal Barton Decker, age 84, died May 7, 2012 in St. George from complications of a stroke. He was born November 7, 1927 in Clearwater, California to Niels Jensen Decker and Imogene P...
Metta Wood Tweedie
(April 9, 1921 - May 5, 2012)
(St. George, UT) - Metta Tweedie, 91, passed away May 5, 2012, in St. George, UT. She was born April 9, 1921 in St. George, to Ether Wood and Augusta Carter Wood and was married in the St. George L...
Philip L Monroe
December 14, 1911 - May 7, 2012
(Cedar City, UT) - Philip L. Monroe- Our beloved Father, Grandfather, Great Grandfather and Great-Great-grandfather peacefully passed away with his family by his side on May 7, 2012. Philip was bo...
Helen Tuft Webster
May 24, 1934 - May 6, 2012
(Cedar City, UT) - Helen Tuft Webster, 77, passed away on May 6, 2012, in Cedar City, Utah. Helen was born May 24, 1934 in Escalante, Utah the third child of Leonard and Bernice Tuft. Her childhoo...