Tag: death
GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) — A 30-year-old Garden City man died at a Tyson Fresh Meats plant in western Kansas, authorities said. Kendrick Gregory was doing maintenance work on an assembly line early Monday at…
CAIRO (AP) — Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian leader who was the autocratic face of stability in the Middle East for nearly 30 years before being forced from power in an Arab Spring uprising, died today,…
Former Allen County Sheriff Ron Moore died Saturday at a Wichita hospital, following an extended illness. Moore’s 28-year career in law enforcement included a 20-year stint as sheriff. He retired from law enforcement in 2000.…
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) An actress who had a small role in the movie Captain America: The First Avenger is accused of fatally stabbing her mother inside a suburban Kansas City home. Mollie Fitzgerald, 38,…
HIAWATHA, Kan. (AP) The family of a 9-year-old Kansas girl say she has died after being diagnosed with influenza in neighboring Nebraska. The family of Leighya Marie DeLong, of Hiawatha, confirmed to Topeka television…
Sesame Street icon Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who played Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch during his nearly five decades on the childrens show, died Sunday at 85. His death was announced by the Sesame…
Its official: Americans are dying earlier. Preliminary signals of declining health were neither a false alarm nor a statistical fluke. A reversal of American life expectancy, a downward trend that has now been sustained for…
WASHINGTON (TNS) Signs of declining health for American men abound in the National Center for Health Statistics latest annual report. Life expectancy at birth for males declined to 76.1 years in 2017 from 76.5…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) Authorities say a horticulturalist was slain outside his Kansas office, and a man in a vehicle that was linked to the original homicide scene killed himself hours later in Missouri…
BERLIN (AP) Authorities in Germany say theyve arrested a 55-year-old man on suspicion of killing his mother by drowning her in a well. Police and prosecutors in Muenster said Tuesday that an autopsy showed…
