Gloria Molina, Chicana who blazed paths across L.A. politics, dies ... died Sunday night after a three-year battle with cancer. Her death at her home in Mount Washington, surrounded by her family, ...
TROY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — A local World War II veteran, who was the last surviving member of Company B from Cohoes, has passed away at age 100. Wilfred Mailloux, better known as Spike, died ...
Alice Young, the first Black school principal in Rochester and a founding trustee of Monroe Community College, died April 24 at age 100. Her death came 10 days after she suffered a stroke ...
Apr. 4—Dayton-area Holocaust survivor Bob Kahn died Tuesday at the age of 100. A funeral is scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday at Temple Israel with Rabbi Bodney-Halasz officiating, according to an ...
Henry Cervantes was a Fresno-born, 19-year-old son of Mexican farmworkers when the Navy told him in 1942 that he could not fight for his country. An enlistment officer sent him home, saying the ...
Civil rights and social justice activist, Rev. Al Sharpton, will deliver the eulogy for Frank Tyson, 53, of Canton who died after repeatedly telling police, "I can't breathe." Civil rights and ...
Shigeichi Negishi, the inventor of the world's first commercially-available karaoke machine, has died in Japan. He was 100 years old. According to the Wall Street Journal, Negishi's daughter Atsumi ...
Wilfred "Spike" Mailloux was wounded in the last-gasp Japanese attempt to hold the island 1,400 miles south of Tokyo in July 1944 Wilfred “Spike” Mailloux, center, in the 1940-41 27th Division ...
A World War Two refugee who fled to Scotland from Germany via the Kindertransport child safety mission, has died. Henry Wuga celebrated his 100th birthday in February. He escaped Germany in May 1939, ...
Dayton-area Holocaust survivor Bob Kahn died Tuesday at the age of 100. Kahn’s survival of the Nazi Holocaust during World War II and his teachings in the Dayton region have been well documented.