Tag: Obituaries

Madeleine LeBeau, 1923-2016

Alice B. Lloyd · May 16, 2016 6:48 pm

Burns served in the Senate from 1989 to 2007 as only the second Republican senator to represent Big Sky Country since 1913. (AP File Photo/Todd Goodrich)

Longest-serving GOP senator in Montana dead at 81

Anna Giaritelli · April 29, 2016 10:52 pm

Residents of Twin Cities, St. Paul, have circulated petitions to name a park, local light rail line after Prince. (Bryan Houlgrave/The Des Moines Register via AP)

Minneapolis weighs Prince Park, Purple Line, Nelson Terminal to honor late local star

Dan Friedman · April 23, 2016 10:08 pm

Pop legend Prince has died

Joshua Axelrod · April 21, 2016 5:38 pm

Ford became notorious when it came to light that the Toronto mayor had smoked crack cocaine. (Darren Calabrese /The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford dead at 46

Kelly Cohen · March 22, 2016 3:36 pm

Nancy Reagan dead at 94

Dan Friedman, Daniel Chaitin · March 6, 2016 4:50 pm

Aubrey McClendon, former CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp., was killed in a car crash in Oklahoma Wednesday, one day after he was indicted on federal charges of conspiring to rig oil and gas lease bids. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Energy and Environment

Energy mogul dies in car crash a day after indictment

John Siciliano · March 2, 2016 8:16 pm

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will go down in history as a great justice, with a profound effect on the law. (Gavin Averill/The Hattiesburg American via AP)

Beltway Confidential

Scalia sacrificed a lot to serve his country

Michael Barone · February 14, 2016 1:55 am

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dead at 79

Kyle Feldscher · February 13, 2016 10:07 pm

Ralph Hauenstein, RIP

The Scrapbook · January 15, 2016 6:25 am

The online version of the unfortunately timed New York Times article has since been amended to reflect David Bowie's death. (AP Photo)

Unlucky timing: NY Times says it’s a ‘good time to be David Bowie’

Becket Adams · January 11, 2016 7:29 pm

David Cohen, longtime "public interest lobbyist," died over the Thanksgiving weekend. He is pictured here at the 2006 Purpose Prize Innovation Summit. (Photo by Flickr user cinesmith.net, used under a Creative Commons license)

Beltway Confidential

David Cohen: R.I.P.

Michael Barone · December 7, 2015 12:16 am