Obituaries
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - James Turner Leeson Jr., a Nashville journalist whose recording of a broadcast describing the questionable execution of a black man convicted of raping a white woman in Mississippi led to a book on the subject, has died.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - In a story April 2 about the death of Chief Justice Thomas Moyer, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Ohio State University law professor Marc Spindelman had argued cases before the Ohio Supreme Court.
SPOKANE, Wash. - The oldest Canadian veteran of World War I has died at the age of 109.
NEWARK, N.J. - Sylvia Pressler, a trailblazing judge whose 1973 ruling opened Little League baseball to girls, has died.
LOS ANGELES - Aaron Stovitz, the original prosecutor of Charles Manson and three followers who was removed from the case after a dispute with his boss over out-of-court comments, died Monday of leukemia at the age of 86.
