A man who served with the all-black Tuskegee Airmen during World War II and was a longtime New York City educator has died. Roscoe Brown Jr. was 94. His granddaughter Lisa Bodine says he died Saturday at a hospital in the Bronx. She says he recently fell and broke his hip. In 2007, Brown and five other airmen accepted the…
Authorities and relatives say an Alabama woman standing atop a hay bale was attacked by fire ants and died the day after her mother died. A joint funeral was held Thursday in Selma for the women, 29-year-old Kalyn Rolan and 53-year-old Roberta Lynn Duke, both of Prattville. Rolan’s mother-in-law, Sheila Rolan, says Duke had died of lung disease and the…
Authorities say a 12-year-old girl has died after collapsing at a school in Pell City. Pell City police spokesman Don Newton tells Al.com the girl was participating in field day activities at Williams Intermediate School when she collapsed. Chief Greg Turley says the girl had been playing tug-of-war when she fell to the ground. Newton says nurses began CPR and…
Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world’s oldest person, has died in New York at age 116. She was born in Lowndes County, Alabama in 1899. Robert Young, a senior consultant for the Gerontology Research Group, says Jones died at a senior home in Brooklyn Thursday night. He said she had been ill for the past 10 days. Jones was born in…
