Obituaries in the News

Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist who was a founding member of The Doors, has died in Germany. He was 74.

Ken Venturi, who overcame dehydration to win the 1964 U.S. Open and spent 35 years in the booth for CBS Sports, died Friday afternoon. He was 82.

Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla died Friday while serving life sentences in prison for crimes against humanity.

Popular psychologist, columnist, and television and film personality Joyce Brothers has died. She was 85.

Bernard Waber, the author of such children's favorites as "The House on East 88th Street" and "Lyle, Lyle Crocodile," has died at his home in New York.

The wife of the president of the Mormon church has died. Frances B. Monson, 85, died early Friday morning at a hospital in Salt Lake City, The Church of Jesus...

Authorities in North Carolina say former NASCAR driver Dick Trickle has died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 71.

E. Robert Kinney, a former chief executive of General Mills who earlier in his career was instrumental in popularizing fish sticks, has died. He was 96.