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Ed Miller dies at 87; longtime D.A. for San Diego County

2013-03-05 18:23:00

Ed Miller, who served as San Diego County district attorney for 24 years and, beginning in the scandal-ridden 1970s, was a major figure in reforming the city's political, business and law enforcement establishment, has died. He was 87. Miller died...

On Dr. Seuss' birthday, a parent says thank you

2013-03-02 05:00:00

In commemoration of Dr. Seuss’ birthday, I sat on the floor of my 8-year-old daughter’s room, before her bookcase. Theodor Seuss Geisel, who died in 1991, took the pen name Dr. Seuss when he was a student at Dartmouth College in the 1920s....

C. Everett Koop dies at 96; former U.S. surgeon general

2013-02-25 00:00:00

In the mid-1980s, the emerging AIDS epidemic was a high-profile target of vocal conservatives. Politicians and the religious right called for sweeping measures against those diagnosed with AIDS, including quarantine of patients, mandatory screening of...

Tips for ski season injury prevention

2013-02-16 00:00:00

Nothing ruins a skiing or snowboarding weekend like having to hitchhike down the hill in a ski patroller's sled — or in an ambulance. Fortunately, the overall rate of skiing injuries has declined by 50% since the 1970s, according to the National Ski...

PASSINGS: Cliff Osmond

2012-12-31 00:00:00

Cliff Osmond, 75, a character actor who was a regular presence in director Billy Wilder's comedies of the 1960s and '70s and appeared in dozens of TV series into the 1990s, died Dec. 22 of pancreatic cancer at his home in Pacific Palisades, said his...

R. Palmer Beasley dies at 76; linked hepatitis B to liver cancer

2012-08-28 00:00:00

Dr. R. Palmer Beasley, an epidemiologist whose pivotal research on hepatitis B in Taiwan first linked the virus to liver cancer, died Saturday of pancreatic cancer at his home in Houston. He was 76. His death was announced by the University of Texas...

PASSINGS: Jimmy Ellis, Jay McMullen

2012-03-10 20:41:00

Jimmy Ellis Frontman for the R&B band Trammps Jimmy Ellis, 74, the frontman for the Trammps R&B group who belted out the refrain "Burn, baby, burn!" in a 1970s-era disco hit, died Thursday at a nursing home in Rock Hill, S.C., according to the Bass-...

Mike Melvoin dies at 74; studio musician, composer

2012-02-24 00:00:00

Mike Melvoin, a pianist/composer/arranger whose credits reach from Stan Getz and Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson and the Beach Boys, and who was the first active musician to serve as national president of the Recording Academy, has died. He was 74. A...

As more choose nursing, shortage less likely, study finds

2011-12-05 14:00:00

Digitally altered photos and body image: Look at the retouching

2011-11-29 17:01:00

Herman Cain gaining on Mitt Romney in New Hampshire

2011-10-10 10:40:00

New Hampshire is still Mitt Romney country, but Herman Cain is rising fast, according to two new surveys of Republican voters in the first-in-the-nation primary state. A poll released Monday from the Institutes of Politics at Harvard University and St....

Live coverage: GOP debate at Dartmouth College

2011-10-11 21:35:21

Peter Roberts has been promoted to chief strategy officer at Jones Lang LaSalle. He previously served a chief executive officer, Americas. Roberts joined Jones Lang LaSalle in 1986.

2012-11-30 11:57:00

Todd M. Young has been appointed to Hinshaw & Culbertson's management committee. The seven-member committee is Hinshaw�s highest governing body. Young serves on the firm�s executive committee and was previously a co-leader of Hinshaw�s commercial transactions practice group.

2012-07-26 12:03:00

Dr. Christopher Loftus has been named chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine effective Aug. 1.

2012-04-20 00:00:00