Former Texas Gov. Ann Richards dies
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Former Texas Governor Ann Richards, who   sparred with former President George H.W. Bush and later lost   the state's top job to his son, President George W. Bush, died   on Wednesday. She was 73.
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A supervisor at BP Plc's Texas City, Texas, refinery died on Monday of head injuries suffered when a heavy metal lid blew off a unit during a restart, his family's lawyer and BP said on Tuesday.
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Former first lady, Lady Bird Johnson, has died in Texas at the age of 94, less than two weeks after leaving hospital, a family spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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Former Gov. Ann Richards, the witty and flamboyant Democrat who went from homemaker to national political celebrity, died Wednesday night after a battle with cancer, a family spokeswoman said. She was 73.
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Jerry Orbach, who walked the beat on NBC's Law & Order   for the last 12 seasons as sardonic Detective Lennie Briscoe, has died   of prostate cancer, his publicist said Wednesday. He was 69.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man, who became pen  pals with actress Susan Sarandon while on death row, was put to  death by lethal injection on Thursday for murdering a  convenience store clerk during a 1985 robbery.
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Lt. Gov. Win Rockefeller, the unassuming billionaire who last year abandoned a race for Arkansas governor &amp;#151; a post once held by his father &amp;#151; died Sunday after unsuccessful treatments for a blood disorder, his office said. He was 57.
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A dentist from Houston, Texas, has died after becoming infected with a flesh-eating bacteria. Dr. Kenneth Dean Creamer, 52, became infected after suffering a cut to his leg while he was fishing near Port O&#39;Connor, on the Gulf coast, according to ...
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Johnny Oates, the only manager to lead the Texas Rangers to the playoffs, died Friday at the age of 58. Oates was diagnosed with a brain tumor three years ago and doctors at the
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DENTON, Texas An autopsy shows a University of North Texas quarterback who died when his vehicle collided head-on with a truck -- was legally drunk.
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Larry Rawl, who was chairman of oil giant ExxonMobil during the Exxon Valdez disaster, dies, aged 76.
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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan  - Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed in a gun and bomb attack after a rally in the city of Rawalpindi on Thursday, her party said.
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Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson, the wife of former US President Lyndon B Johnson, dies aged 94.
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Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, the televangelist who helped lead the PTL ministry before its collapse in a sex and corruption scandal, has died at age 65, her Web site reported on Saturday.
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Former Gov. Kirk Fordice, a hard-nosed, no-nonsense businessman who became Mississippi's first Republican governor in more than 100 years, died Tuesday of leukemia. He was 70.
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Actor Stan Richards, who starred as gamekeeper Seth Armstrong in the British soap opera "Emmerdale" for 27 years, has died at the age of 74, the show's producers said on Saturday.
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Alberta's much-beloved lieutenant-governor, Lois Hole, has died, the premier's office said Friday.