Pauline Gore, Mother of Former VP, Dies
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Pauline Gore, whose son Al became vice president and nearly captured the presidency and whose husband had a long and distinguished career in Congress, died Wednesday. She was 92.
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Julia Child, the grande dame of U.S. television cooking shows whose operatic voice and irreverent attitude brought French haute cuisine into America's humble kitchens, died in her sleep at her California home on Friday at the age of 91.
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Hiram L. Fong, 97, a Hawaii Republican who served in the US Senate from 1959 to 1977 and rose from poverty to become a venerable figure in Pacific politics, died of kidney failure Aug. 18 at his home in Honolulu.
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HARARE  - Zimbabwe&#39;s ruling party elected longtime cabinet minister Joyce Mujuru as the country&#39;s first woman vice-president at the end of a party congress.
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AUSTIN, Texas  - Former Texas first lady Nellie   Connally, who was riding in the limousine with President John   F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in 1963, has died at the   age of 87, a family friend said on Saturday.
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Charles William Maynes, editor of Foreign Policy magazine for 18 years and a former State Department official, died last weekend at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 68.
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Former Texas Governor Ann Richards dies at the age of 73 after battling oesophageal cancer.
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This really makes me miss THK speaking in public on a daily basis. In Lancaster, PA the wife of the democratic presidential candidate showed again why the Kerry campaign has kept her silent for so long.
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Nellie Connally, the former Texas first lady who was riding in President Kennedy's limousine when he was assassinated, has died, a family friend said Saturday. The 87-year-old was the last living person who had been part of that fateful Dallas drive.
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BELLEVUE -- Teresa Heinz Kerry, daughter of a physician and chief executive of a philanthropy funding health-care initiatives, put that experience to work in Bellevue yesterday while on the stump for her presidential-candidate husband at a roundtable
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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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Former Rep. Jennifer Dunn, who became the most powerful Republican woman in Washington state history during six terms representing Seattle's east-side suburbs, died Wednesday after developing a blood clot in her Virginia apartment, her family said. She was 66.
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The 24-year-old son of former Vice  President Al Gore was arrested for drug possession on Wednesday  after he was stopped for allegedly speeding in his hybrid  Toyota Prius, a sheriff&#39;s official said.
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Chancellor Gordon Brown's mother Elizabeth has died in hospital aged 86, it is announced.
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Rose Mary Woods, the devoted secretary to President Nixon who said she inadvertently erased part of a crucial Watergate tape that had an 18 1/2-minute gap, has died. She was 87.
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Former Rep. Jennifer Dunn, R-Wash. who represented Seattle's conservative east-side suburbs for six terms in Congress, died Wednesday, her family said. She was 66.
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Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, died Wednesday, a family spokeswoman said. She was 94.