Robert Hecht Jr., controversial dealer in classical antiquities, dies at 92 in Paris

When Robert E. Hecht Jr. arrived at the loading platform of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in the fall of 1972, he was carrying a large wooden box and was escorted by an armed guard.

DEATHS

Ronald L. Smith, horn player for K.C. and the Sunshine Band, dies after years of being comatose

Ronnie Smith, a Miami horn player who spent five booty-shaking years with K.C. and the Sunshine Band, then wrote Jimmie “Bo’’ Horne’s 1978 disco smash, Spank, has died at age 59.

Creator of Lemonheads candy dies at age 93

Candy company executive Nello Ferrara lived a sweet life.

Robert A. Citron, engineer who pioneered commercializing space, dies at 79

Robert A. Citron, an aerospace engineer and intrepid entrepreneur, whose boyhood fantasy of traveling beyond Earth inspired pioneering ventures to commercialize space, died Jan. 31 at his home in Bellevue, Wash. He was 79.

Patricia Stephens Due, civil rights figure, dead at 72

Patricia Stephens Due, a lifelong Florida civil rights crusader who led 1960s-era demonstrations and voter-registration drives, went to jail for trying to integrate a lunch counter, and suffered permanent eye damage from a police assault, died Tuesday. She was 72.

Patricia Stephens Due, civil rights figure, 72

An activist since childhood, Due played a key role in transforming a state divided by racial segregation

Shuttle astronaut Janice Voss dies of cancer at 55

NASA astronaut Janice Voss, who first worked for the space agency as a teenager and flew five shuttle missions in seven years, has died. She was 55.