LOS ANGELES - Slim Whitman, a country pop singer whose forlorn wail influenced a generation of vocalists in the early 1950s, has died at age 90. » read more

MINNEAPOLIS - Vince Flynn, the New York Times best-selling author of 14 thrillers and mysteries, has died of prostate cancer. He was 47. » read more

Michael Hastings, an aggressive and iconoclastic journalist whose reporting exposed the vagaries of the war in Iraq and helped bring down the top U.S. general in Afghanistan, died early Tuesday in a car crash in Los Angeles, according to two of his employers. He was 33. » read more

For Bob Meistrell, there was always something about the water. » read more

James Eubert Holshouser Jr., the first Republican governor of the 20th century who championed education, the environment and health care, died Monday after a prolonged illness. He was 78. » read more

With a click of the camera pressed against her forehead, the photojournalist broke ground in a way her male colleagues never could. » read more

When Walt Arfons first strapped a jet engine onto a hot rod, experts thought the car would melt, explode or spin wildly out of control. » read more

CHICAGO -Bernie Sahlins, co-founder and former owner of Second City and a crucial and essential innovator in American comedy, died Sunday at his home, his wife Jane Nicholl Sahlins said. He was 90. » read more