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.

The wife of the Mormon church's president shied away from the spotlight, but her lifelong work behind the scenes left a lasting impression on those who knew her.

Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who took power over Argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow citizens in a dirty war to eliminate so-called "subversives," died quietly in his sleep Friday while serving life in prison for crimes against humanity. He was 87.

Billie Corinne Womack was an original from the day she was born — Oct. 1, 1919 — in Little Rock, Ark.

Kenneth Battelle, the hairdresser who gave both Jacqueline Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe their calling-card hairdos in the 1950s and '60s, has died at age 86, said Kevin Lee, creative director of Battelle's company, on Tuesday.

Billie Sol Estes' name was synonymous with Texas-sized schemes, greed and corruption.

Before Dr. Phil and Dr. Drew and Dr. Oz, there was Joyce Brothers.

A 70-year-old woman whose mummified body was recently found in her Santa Fe apartment was identified as a Chicana activist, teacher and author.

Jack Butler, who helped revolutionize the way cornerbacks played in the NFL during his Hall of Fame career with the Pittsburgh Steelers, died Saturday after a lengthy battle with a staph infection. He was 85.

A friend says the grandson of political activist Malcolm X died after he was beaten up during a dispute over a bill at a Mexico City bar.

Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of political activist Malcolm X, died in Mexico City after a violent dispute in a bar, Mexican authorities said Friday. He was 28.

At Hialeah Senior High School, Carl Avery Lewis was known as a veteran biology teacher.

Billie Corinne Womack was an original from the day she was born — Oct. 1, 1919 — in Little Rock, Ark.

At Hialeah Senior High School, Carl Avery Lewis was known as a veteran biology teacher.

Ruth Kassewitz was a powerhouse Miami publicist and glass-ceiling breaker.

Polygraph expert Warren Holmes helped free wrongly convicted men from death row, and was working on a report about the man long believed to have killed a candy heiress.

Few cops anywhere were as tough and dedicated as Miami-Dade Police Officer Rocco.

Gustavo Alberto Noguera Delgado believed he was prenatally programmed to love Ludwig van Beethoven.

Edward Louis “Shorty” Allen built a South Florida dining institution one rib at a time.

Frances Kruvand Greer, Miami-Dade County’s top public health official in the 1980s, championed programs for the needy — because she could relate.

Margarita Chavez Dosal, the flamboyantly fancy, gleefully generous matriarch of a family that reestablished its Cuban tobacco company in Opa-locka after fleeing the Castro regime, died Monday night at her Miami Shores home of complications from diabetes. She was 73.

Well known South Florida architect Barry Sugerman, who designed dozens of capacious luxury homes with tropical touches in a prolific career that spanned more than four decades, died Tuesday.

If toilet training your toddler was a breeze, and if you ever used “time out’’ for attitude adjustment, you have Nathan H. Azrin to thank.

Helen Wyatt Snapp did not want to be called a hero.