LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Nick Counter, a longtime negotiator for Hollywood producers who led the studios through two grueling writers' strikes last year and in 1988, has died. He was 69....

NATICK, Mass (AP) -- Dr. Donald Baim, a renowned cardiologist and medical device executive, died Friday following surgery to treat a form of cancer, his family said in a statement. He was 60....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Art D'Lugoff (Duh-LOO'-guhf), who owned the famed Village Gate nightclub in New York City, has died. He was 85....

PANAMA CITY (AP) -- Manuel Solis, who served briefly as president during Manuel Noriega's military regime, died Friday. He was 91....

PRAGUE (AP) -- Otomar Krejca, a renowned theater director in the Czech Republic, has died at the age of 87....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Lou Filippo, a World Boxing Hall of Famer who judged 85 world champion fights and had small roles in the "Rocky" movies, has died. He was 83....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Sheldon Dorf, who founded the world famous Comic-Con International comic book convention, has died. He was 76....

PARIS (AP) -- After weeks crossing the high seas, Claude Levi-Strauss breathed in his first lungful of the New World, a perfume tinged with pepper or tobacco. The sensory awakening was the start of a journey that turned a young Parisian scholar into a founder of modern anthropology....

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Bernerd Harding, a World War II pilot from New Hampshire who went on a quest to find his buried pilot's wings in Germany 65 years after his B-24 bomber was shot down, died Tuesday at age 90....

MADRID (AP) -- Francisco Ayala, a novelist, sociologist and one of Spain's leading scholars, died Tuesday at age 103 after outliving the dictatorship that led him to flee into exile....

BOSTON (AP) -- Robert H. Rines, a lawyer, composer, inventor and physicist whose discoveries led to sharper resolution in radar, sonar and ultrasound imaging and who claimed to have seen the Loch Ness Monster, has died. He was 87....

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Alan Ogg, a 7-foot-2 shotblocker who played for UAB and spent parts of three seasons in the NBA, died Sunday from complications from a staph infection, a university spokesman said. He was 42....

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Forest Evashevski, the former Michigan football star coached Iowa to two Rose Bowl victories in the 1950s, has died. He was 91....

BEIJING (AP) -- Qian Xuesen, a rocket scientist known as the father of China's space technology program, died Saturday in Beijing, the official Xinhua News Agency said. He was 98....

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Former South Korean spy chief Lee Hu-rak, who brokered the signing of a historic 1972 peace document with North Korea following a secret trip to Pyongyang, died Saturday. He was 85....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Michelle Triola Marvin whose landmark lawsuit against her former lover, "Dirty Dozen" actor Lee Marvin, placed the word "palimony" into the family law lexicon and changed the legal rights of unmarried cohabiting partners, died Friday at age 76....

HOUSTON (AP) -- Flamboyant lawyer John O'Quinn, who won billions in verdicts against makers of breast implants, pharmaceuticals and tobacco products, died Thursday in a traffic wreck. He was 68....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Nicolas Cage's father, literature professor August Coppola, has died. He was 75....

CLEVELAND (AP) -- John Kenley, a longtime theater producer who ran a legendary summer stock circuit in Ohio beginning in the 1950s, has died. He was 103....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Roy DeCarava, a photographer whose black and white images captured Harlem's everyday life and the jazz greats who performed there, has died. He was 89....

GENEVA (AP) -- Swiss historian Jean-Francois Bergier, who led a highly critical probe of Switzerland's conduct during World War II, has died. He was 77....

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) -- The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about former Minnesota Vikings strong safety Orlando Thomas dying of Lou Gehrig's Disease. The team - the source of the incorrect information - and Thomas' agent now say Thomas has not died. A corrected story will follow....

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Troy N. Smith, the founder of a drive-in chain that became Sonic restaurants, has died in Oklahoma City. He was 87....

CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (AP) -- Donovan Kramer Sr., longtime publisher of the Casa Grande Dispatch and owner of several weekly community newspapers in Arizona, died Sunday. He was 84....

GENEVA (AP) -- Hanns Neuerbourg, a roving Associated Press correspondent in eastern Europe who also covered the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and interviewed Elvis Presley, has died in Switzerland. He was 88....

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Mike McQueen, chief of bureau for The Associated Press in Louisiana and Mississippi, has died. He was 52....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Actor Lou Jacobi, who was known for comic roles and won praise in dramatic ones over a long career in the theater and movies, has died. He was 95....

ROME (AP) -- The longtime chief bodyguard of the late Pope John Paul II, who accompanied him in trips abroad and was nearby during the 1981 attempted assassination of the pontiff, has died in Rome at 83....

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York Mets minor league pitcher Rafael Castro has died of an apparent heart attack. He was 18....

CUTCHOGUE, N.Y. (AP) -- Bill "The Big Whistle" Chadwick, the first U.S.-born official in NHL history who was later a popular broadcaster for the New York Rangers, died Saturday. He was 94....

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Shiloh Pepin, a girl who was born with fused legs, a rare condition often called "mermaid syndrome," and gained a wide following on the Internet and national television, has died. She was 10....

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Ray Browne, an Ohio university professor who was credited with coining the phrase "popular culture" and pioneering the study of things such as bumper stickers and cartoons, has died. He was 87....

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Jack Poole, the man who brought the 2010 Winter Olympics to Vancouver, has died. He was 76....

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- The man who brought the 2010 Winter Games to Vancouver has died....

DETROIT (AP) -- Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Betty Gallagher, the wife of a former Associated Press general manager and president who helped him run the Berlin bureau after World War II, died Thursday. She was 93....

BOSTON (AP) -- Theodore Ryland Sizer, a passionate leader in education reform who led Ivy League education departments and progressive high schools, has died after a long battle with colon cancer. He was 77....

HIGHLANDS, N.C. (AP) -- Actress Collin Wilcox-Paxton, who portrayed the false accuser in the movie classic "To Kill a Mockingbird," died of brain cancer just months after the diagnosis. She was 74....

SYDNEY (AP) -- Don Lane, an American song-and-dance man who became an enduring television celebrity in Australia known as "The Lanky Yank," died Thursday. He was 75....

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A funeral home is giving people one last chance to have their name in lights....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Feminist artist Nancy Spero, whose works have been included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, has died. She was 83....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jack Nelson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who covered the civil rights movement and the Watergate scandal for the Los Angeles Times and was the paper's Washington bureau chief for 20 years, died Wednesday. He was 80....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Joseph Wiseman, an actor who played the sinister scientist and title character of Dr. No in the first James Bond feature film, has died. He was 91....

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- Former Wyoming governor and U.S. Sen Clifford Hansen, a rancher who rode his agricultural background to political success in Cheyenne and Washington, D.C., died Tuesday night. He was 97....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Vic Mizzy, a songwriter who composed the catchy themes for the 1960s sit-coms "The Addams Family" and "Green Acres," has died. He was 93....

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Howard Barton Unruh, who killed 13 people as he walked the streets of Camden in a psychotic 1949 shooting spree that was the nation's worst mass murder at the time, died Monday. He was 88....

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- A University of Iowa doctor who perfected a nonsurgical treatment for curing clubfoot in infants has died....

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Former Wisconsin Rep. Jay Johnson, who spent three decades as a television journalist before jumping into politics and heading the U.S. Mint, has died. He was 66....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Daniel Melnick, the producer who brought gutsy, smart movies like "Straw Dogs," "Network" and "Midnight Express" to the big screen, has died at his home in Los Angeles. He was 77....

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) -- Elizabeth Clare Prophet, the spiritual leader of the Church Universal and Triumphant, which gained notoriety in the late 1980s for its followers' elaborate preparations for nuclear Armageddon, has died. She was 70....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Cullen Bryant, who spent 11 seasons with the Los Angeles Rams, was a running back on their 1980 Super Bowl team and fought the NFL's trading rules to remain in town, has died. He was 58....

DETROIT (AP) -- Former Michigan congressman Bob Davis, who represented northern Lower Michigan and the Upper Peninsula for seven terms in Congress, has died. He was 77....

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- A co-founder of Oregon's Dutch Bros. coffee stand chain has died from Lou Gehrig's Disease....

Bruce Wasserstein, the CEO of Lazard Ltd. and a prominent Wall Street dealmaker who helped negotiate some of the largest corporate takeovers in history, died Wednesday. He was 61. The death of the driving force behind Lazard raises questions about the future of one of Wall Street's top mergers and acquisitions advisory firms....

PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) -- Willard Varnell Oliver, a member of the Navajo Code Talkers who confounded the Japanese during World War II by transmitting messages in their native language, died Wednesday. He was 88....

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice, whose rulings shattered old Texas by changing the way the state educated children, treated prisoners and housed its poorest and most vulnerable citizens, has died. He was 89....

NEW YORK (AP) -- "Captain" Lou Albano, who became one of the most recognized professional wrestlers of the 1980s after appearing in Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" music video, died Wednesday. He was 76....

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) -- Nan Robertson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter who wrote a book about female employees' fight for equal treatment at the newspaper, has died. She was 83....

SPRINGFIELD, Pa. (AP) -- Singer Al Martino, who played the Frank Sinatra-type role of Johnny Fontane in "The Godfather," died Tuesday afternoon at his childhood home. He was 82....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Richard W. Sonnenfeldt, the chief interpreter for American prosecutors at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, has died. He was 86....

VERBOORT, Ore. (AP) -- Larry Jansen, the winning pitcher for the New York Giants in the 1951 playoff game decided by Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round the World," has died. He was 89....

ROME (AP) -- Alberto Castagnetti, the longtime coach of Italy's swim team, has died. He was 66....

PORT D'ANDRATX, Mallorca (AP) -- Stephen Gately, a singer with the Irish boy band Boyzone who made headlines when he came out as gay a decade ago, has died while on vacation in Spain, the group said on its Web site. He was 33....

BRIDGEVILLE, Pa. (AP) -- Donna Mae Mims, the first woman to win a Sports Car Club of America national championship in 1963, has died. She was 82....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Lionel Pincus, founder and chairman of New York-based private equity firm Warburg Pincus, has died, according to a spokesman for his longtime partner, Princess Firyal of Jordan. He was 78....

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Marvin Fishman, one of the original owners of the Milwaukee Bucks, died Friday at a southeast Wisconsin hospital following a stroke, his daughter said Saturday. He was 84....

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Raymond A. Brown, a veteran New Jersey defense lawyer whose high-profile clients included former boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, has died. He was 94....

MADRID (AP) -- Luis Aguile, an Argentine singer-songwriter whose career blossomed after he moved to Spain, died in a Madrid hospital on Saturday, his manager said. He was 73....

YVERDON-LES-BAINS, Switzerland (AP) -- Jacques Chessex, one of French-speaking Switzerland's leading novelists and the first non-Frenchman to receive the prestigious Prix Goncourt, has died, officials said Saturday. He was 75....

LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) -- Bluesman Abu Talib, who recorded and toured with Ray Charles and Little Walter under his given name, Freddy Robinson, has died. He was 70....

RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Dr. Frederick "Fred" Wirth Jr., the physician to America's first test-tube baby, has died, his family said Friday. He was 68....

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Israel Gelfand, who was considered one of the world's top mathematicians and did work that was important in the development of medical imaging devices, has died at age 96....

MOSCOW (AP) -- Vyacheslav Ivankov, a Russian crime boss who spent nearly 10 years in a U.S. prison, died Friday in a Moscow hospital, two months after being shot several times coming out of a restaurant. He was 69....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Leon Clarke, a two-time Pro Bowl wide receiver in the NFL who played for Southern California in the 1955 Rose Bowl, has died at 76....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ben Ali, the founder of Ben's Chili Bowl diner, a landmark in Washington's black business and entertainment district and a frequent stop for politicians and celebrities, has died. He was 82....