» Rep. Murtha, a force on Hill, dies
02/09/10 12:23
John P. Murtha, 77, the powerful dean of Pennsylvania's congressional delegation who survived scandal and seismic political shifts to become the longest-serving House member from the state, died yesterday at a hospital in Arlington, Va., af..

» Pa. Dem Murtha remembered as military advocate (AP)
02/09/10 11:22
AP - Rep. John Murtha, who said the Bush administration's handling of the war in Iraq was based on "flawed policy wrapped in illusion" and called for a withdrawal of U.S. troops there, is being remembered as an advocate on Capitol Hil..

» Charles V. Trofe | Yeadon police chief, 79
02/09/10 08:02
Charles V. Trofe, 79, of Downingtown, a retired Yeadon Borough police chief, died of heart failure Thursday at Brandywine Hospital.

» Joseph A. Regan Jr., 76, Phila. policeman
02/09/10 08:02
Joseph A. Regan Jr., 76, of Mayfair, who won numerous accolades during his 36-year career as a Philadelphia police officer, died of heart failure Friday at Aria Health-Torresdale Campus.

» Yolanda 'Yo' DiRocco, 78, former Gibbsboro mayor
02/09/10 08:02
Yolanda "Yo" DiRocco, 78, a longtime Gibbsboro resident who rose through the ranks of the local women's club, was elected to the Borough Council, and served as mayor for four years, died Thursday of cancer at Vitas Inpatient Hospice Unit in..

» Violet Johnson, woman of many talents, dies at 94.
02/09/10 07:35
VIOLET B. JOHNSON was a multitalented woman of many interests and accomplishments, but her abiding interest in her long life was overcoming the barriers that kept women, especially African-American women, from pursuing meaningful careers.

» Ian Carmichael | Comic actor, 89
02/09/10 07:34
Ian Carmichael, 89, a British comic actor who starred in I'm All Right Jack on the silver screen and played Bertie Wooster and Lord Peter Wimsey on TV, died Friday at his home in Grosmont in northern England, his family said. The cause of d..

» Felice Quinto | 'King of paparazzi,' 80
02/09/10 07:34
Felice Quinto, 80, a celebrity photographer and the likely model for the character Paparazzo in Federico Fellini's 1960 film, La Dolce Vita , died of pneumonia Jan. 16 in Rockville, Md., his wife, Geraldine, said yesterday.

» Beth Shulman, 60, dies; fought for low-wage workers
02/09/10 05:00
Beth Shulman, 60, a lawyer, author and union leader who fought for improving conditions for low-wage workers throughout her career, died Feb. 5 of complications from brain cancer at Georgetown University Medical Center. She lived in Washin..

» African activist Raymond Almeida dies at 66
02/09/10 05:00
Raymond "Ray" Almeida, 66, who worked for more than 30 years on development issues in the Cape Verde islands off western Africa and throughout the African continent, died Jan. 30 at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston of complications a..

» John Murtha dies; longtime congressman was master of pork-barrel politics
02/09/10 05:00
Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), a Vietnam War veteran who staunchly supported military spending and became a master of pork-barrel politics, died Monday at Virginia Hospital Center. The 19-term lawmaker died from complications of gallbladder ..

» John Murtha, 77; congressman became foe of Iraq war
02/09/10 03:43
WASHINGTON - Representative John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania, a gruff former Marine who used his immense power in military spending to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to his hard-luck district and who became an outspoken critic of the ..

» Bob Pickett; football coach at UMass for six seasons; 77
02/09/10 03:43
As his University of Massachusetts football team sat in the locker room before the 1978 national semifinal game at top-ranked and undefeated University of Nevada-Reno, head coach Bob Pickett decided to play the waiting game.

» Carl Kaysen, 89, MIT professor, economist, and JFK adviser
02/09/10 03:43
Twenty years ago, as the crumbling of the Berlin Wall signaled the end of the Cold War, Carl Kaysen wrote an essay whose title asked: “Is War Obsolete?’’ Coming from someone else, the question might have seemed rhetorical ..

» Celebrity photographer Felice Quinto dies at 80 (AP)
02/08/10 21:37
AP - Felice Quinto, a renowned celebrity photographer and the likely model for the character Paparazzo in Federico Fellini's 1960 film "La Dolce Vita," has died. He was 80.

» British comic actor Ian Carmichael dies at 89 (AP)
02/08/10 15:24
AP - Ian Carmichael, a British comic actor who starred in "I'm All Right Jack" on the silver screen and played Bertie Wooster and Lord Peter Wimsey on TV, has died. He was 89.

» Poland's 1st post-communist foreign minister dies (AP)
02/08/10 13:29
AP - Poland's government says Krzysztof Skubiszewski, a legal expert who became Poland's first foreign minister after communism's collapse and helped the country chart a pro-Western course, has died. He was 83.

» Francis P. Thomas Jr., 83
02/08/10 12:45
Francis P. Thomas Jr., 83, who rose from driving gasoline trucks to helping design control rooms in nuclear power plants, died of pneumonia Feb. 3 at St. Mary Manor in Lansdale, where he had lived since 2007.

» Vanessa Barnett, 55, ace swimming teacher
02/08/10 08:03
SO YOUR KID can't swim, huh? Apparently he or she never met Vanessa Ellen Barnett. Vanessa liked to boast that she could teach anyone to swim. And she proved that over and over in a career as a lifeguard at Kelly Pool in Fairmount Park and ..

» Hugh B. Brown, 93, advertising representative
02/08/10 08:02
Hugh B. Brown, 93, a former Philadelphia newspaper advertising representative, died of heart failure Jan. 22 at the Artman Lutheran Home in Ambler, where he had lived for the last 10 years.

» Sir John Dankworth | Jazz musician, 82
02/08/10 08:02
Sir John Dankworth, 82, the British jazz composer, saxophonist, and band leader, died Saturday in a London hospital after an illness.

» John R. Hatcher services
02/08/10 07:34
Funeral services for John R. Hatcher, operator of an iron business who died Jan. 27, will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at St. Phillip's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 53rd Street and Wyalusing Avenue. Friends may call at 9 a.m. Burial will be ..

» Ralph McInerny | Father Dowling author, 80
02/08/10 07:33
Ralph McInerny, 80, a longtime professor of philosophy and medieval studies at the University of Notre Dame and a popular mystery writer best known for his Father Dowling series of novels, died Jan. 29 at Our Lady of Peace Hospital in Misha..

» Geoffrey Burbidge | Physicist, 84
02/08/10 07:33
Geoffrey Burbidge, 84, an English physicist who became a towering figure in astronomy by helping to explain how people and everything else are made of stardust, died Jan. 26 at Scripps Memorial Hospital in San Diego.

» Obituaries
02/08/10 05:00
Roger C. Dixon, 95, a retired Foreign Service officer who helped negotiate the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and later served in the U.S. embassies in Copenhagen and Paris, died Jan. 30 after a cerebral hemorrhage at the Collingto..

» Obituaries
02/08/10 05:00
Conrad Donahue, 85, a retired U.S. Navy commander who worked for 17 years developing information systems for the Defense Communications Agency, died Dec. 23 of respiratory failure at Stafford Hospital Center in Stafford.

» 'Bullet Bill' Dudley dies; U-Va. star, NFL Hall of Famer
02/08/10 05:00
William M. "Bullet Bill" Dudley, 88, one of the most storied football players in Virginia history who later had a Hall of Fame career in the National Football League, died Feb. 4 of a stroke at a hospital in Lynchburg, Va.

» Frank N. Magid dies at 78, created news anchor 'happy talk'
02/08/10 05:00
Frank N. Magid, 78, the television "news doctor" whose survey research and advice to local television stations in the 1970s resulted in co-anchors who chatted between stories, fast-paced graphics, sports tickers and live shots, and a heavy..

» Physicist Geoffrey Burbidge, Big Bang theory skeptic; 84
02/08/10 03:59
NEW YORK - Geoffrey Burbidge, an English physicist who became a towering figure in astronomy by helping to explain how people and everything else are made of stardust, died Jan. 26 in San Diego. He was 84.

» Sir John Dankworth, at 82; jazz composer, saxophonist
02/08/10 03:59
LONDON - Sir John Dankworth, the British jazz composer, saxophonist, and band leader, has died. He was 82.