Wes Kessenich, running the Charlotte Racefest Half Marathon in 2018. He placed first in the male 55-59 age category in that race. “He wanted to be as good as he could be,” his daughter, Leah, said. Courtesy of family If Wes Kessenich had been a boastful person, he could have […]
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Adlene Harrison, the first woman to serve as Dallas mayor and a key figure in the formation of DART, died Saturday of natural causes in her North Dallas home, according to her family. She was 98. A staunch environmental, mass transit and reproductive-rights advocate with a penchant for not mincing […]
Warm tributes have been paid to the trailblazing radio DJ and regular Top of the Pops presenter Janice Long, who has died at the age of 66. Long was an infectiously cheerful and knowledgable voice on a number of BBC stations for 40 years. The Radio 1 Breakfast show DJ […]
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bell hooks, pictured in 1999 Photo by Margaret Thomas / The The Washington Post / Getty Images Writer bell hooks, a prolific cultural critic, poet and scholar whose works explored issues of Black womanhood, Black masculinity and spirituality, died Wednesday at her home in Berea, Kentucky. She was 69. Berea […]
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Kathi Lipcius, 69, a former Inquirer photo staffer with a passion for travel, died Tuesday, Dec. 7, of heart failure at Riddle Memorial Hospital. The longtime Delaware County resident was born in Philadelphia and raised in Prospect Park and Media. Ms. Lipcius graduated from Nether Providence High School in 1969, […]
In the courtroom, Athina Siringas was a force to be reckoned with, a fierce and fearless advocate for crime victims and their families who relied on the passionate and focused prosecutor to deliver them justice — which she did for two decades. Siringas, a longtime assistant prosecutor at the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office who put […]
Medina Spirit died on Monday while training at Santa Anita Park. (Tommy Gilligan/Reuters/file) Medina Spirit, the Kentucky Derby winner trained by Bob Baffert that tested positive for betamethasone after winning the 2021 Triple Crown race, died on Monday while training at Santa Anita Park. The horse’s owner, Amr Zedan, confirmed […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Mikell Grafton, a trailblazing lawyer who was one of the first two female prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Western District of Kentucky — and who was admired for her zeal and compassion — has died. She was 69. Grafton died Tuesday at the University of […]
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Kabance joined the Women’s Army Corps in 1943. Courtesy of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Julia Kabance, who served during World War II as a member of the Women’s Army Corps (WAC), died last Tuesday at the age of 111. She was the oldest known woman veteran of the conflict […]
Dorene Giacopini holds up a photo of her mother Primetta Giacopini at her home in Richmond, Calif., on Monday. Primetta Giacopini was two years old when she lost her mother to the Spanish flu in 1918. Primetta Giacopini contracted COVID-19 earlier this month and died on Sept. 16. Josh Edelson/AP […]