Ex-San Diego Union Publisher Copley Dies
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Helen K. Copley, retired longtime publisher of The San Diego Union, has died. She was 81.
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Mary Rettig Irish, a philanthropist and wife of Hearst Newspapers President George B. Irish, died Sunday after a lengthy battle with cancer. She was 59.
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Travel writer and broadcaster Pete McCarthy has died at the age of 51. McCarthy, author of the best-selling book McCarthy's Bar, died at the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton.
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Veteran publisher Maureen Egen, whose numerous commercial successes have included novels by David Baldacci, Brad Meltzer, and, most famously, Robert James Waller's "The Bridges of Madison County," is stepping down as deputy chair of the Hachette Book Group.
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US comedian Joey Bishop, the last surviving member of Frank Sinatra's "Rat Pack," dies at the age of 89.
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Sidney Sheldon, who won awards in three careers, Broadway theater, movies and television, and who at age 50 turned to writing best-selling novels about stalwart women who triumph in a hostile world of ruthless men, has died. He was 89.
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Author, broadcaster and newspaper columnist Miles Kington has died after a short illness at the age of 66.
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Washington, DC (Sports Network) - Leonard Lindquist, who helped the NFL players organize their first union, died last week. He was 92.
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Joey Bishop, the deadpan comedian, TV host and last of the super-hip team of performers known as the Rat Pack, led by Frank Sinatra, has died at age 89, his publicist said on Thursday.
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Mormon Church president Gordon Hinckley died in Salt Lake City, Utah, late Saturday at the age of 97, church officials said.
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Comedian Joey Bishop, a member of the Rat Pack led by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Peter Lawford, has died at age 89, his longtime friend and publicist Warren Cowan said on Thursday.
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William B. Ziff Jr., the former head of the Ziff-Davis publishing empire, has died at his Pawling, N.Y., home of prostate cancer.  Ziff, who died Saturday, was 76 years old, CNET News.com reported.  He inherited the Ziff-Davis publishing company from his father, William B. Ziff Sr.
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US artist Will Eisner, who revolutionised comic books with gritty newspaper strip The Spirit, dies aged 87.
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Bruce Nelson has left the depot. The chairman and chief executive officer at Delray Beach-based Office Depot (NYSEL ODP) has resigned, which the office supply retailer said was by mutual agreement with the board of directors.
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US musician Danny Flores, who wrote and sang the 1950s hit song Tequila!, has died at the age of 77.
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Gary Webb, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who wrote a controversial series of stories linking the CIA to crack cocaine trafficking in Los Angeles, has died at age 49.
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah  - The head of the Mormon church, Gordon B. Hinckley, died on Sunday at the age of 97, church officials said.