National Obituaries

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegrated in the 1940s has died. She was 104.

ORLANDO, Fla.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, died late Tuesday. He was 65.

NEW YORK (AP) — Garth Hudson, the Band's virtuoso keyboardist and all-around musician who drew from a unique palette of sounds and styles to add a conversational touch to such rock standards as "Up on Cripple Creek," “The Weight” and "Rag Mama Rag,"

Garth Hudson, a masterful Canadian multi-instrumentalist whose prowess on the organ and roots-rock hits with the Band helped define an era, has died. Hudson died early Tuesday morning at age 87 in a nursing home in Woodstock, N.Y.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Pete Medhurst, a longtime radio broadcaster for Navy athletics, has died. He was 55. Navy's athletic department, which spoke with Medhurst's family, announced his death on social media Tuesday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose prolific output ranged from a long-running comic strip to plays, screenplays and children's books, died Friday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Jules Feiffer, an Oscar- and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose prolific output ranged from a long-running comic strip to plays, screenplays and children's books, died Friday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Garth Hudson, the Band's virtuoso keyboardist and all-around musician who drew from a unique palette of sounds and styles to add a conversational touch to such rock standards as "Up on Cripple Creek," “The Weight” and "Rag Mama Rag,"

NEW YORK (AP) — Garth Hudson, the Band's virtuoso keyboardist and all-around musician who drew from a unique palette of sounds and styles to add a conversational touch to such rock standards as "Up on Cripple Creek," “The Weight” and "Rag Mama Rag,"