Tag: Obituaries
South Carolina says hoop Hall of Famer Art Whisnant has died
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina basketball Hall of Famer Art Whisnant has died. The school announced Whisnant's death Wednesday.
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Scientist behind coronavirus shot says next target is cancer
BERLIN — The scientist who won the race to deliver the first widely used coronavirus vaccine says people can rest assured the shots are...
Famed Tiffany jewelry designer Elsa Peretti dead at age 80
NEW YORK — Elsa Peretti, who went from Halston model and Studio 54 regular in the 1960s and '70s to one of the world's...
Beloved Coachella priest’s death spurs migrant vaccinations
THERMAL, Calif. (RNS) — As Luz Gallegos hosted a workshop Thursday (March 18) informing agricultural workers about the COVID-19 vaccine, she held up two...
South Carolina says hoop Hall of Famer Art Whisnant has died
<p>COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina basketball Hall of Famer Art Whisnant has died. The school announced Whisnant's death Wednesday.</p>
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Sabine Schmitz, pioneering German race driver, dies at 51
NÜRBURG, Germany — Sabine Schmitz, the first and only female race car driver to win the annual 24-hour race on the famed Nürburgring circuit...
Dick Hoyt, who pushed son in multiple Boston Marathons, dies
BOSTON — Dick Hoyt, who inspired thousands of runners, fathers and disabled athletes by pushing his son, Rick, in a wheelchair in dozens of...
Sabine Schmitz, pioneering German race driver, dies at 51
<p>NÜRBURG, Germany — Sabine Schmitz, the first and only female race car driver to win the annual 24-hour race on the famed Nürburgring circuit...
McLaughlin, nun who exposed abuses in Rhodesia, dies at 79
JOHANNESBURG — Sister Janice McLaughlin, a Maryknoll Sisters nun who was jailed and later deported by white minority-ruled Rhodesia for exposing human rights abuses,...
Lost to mountain, Japanese internee’s bones return home
<p>SANTA MONICA, Calif. — When Giichi Matsumura arrived at his final resting place in late December, the people who knew him best when he...