Dies

North Carolina farmer Eva Haynes turned the centuries-old Moravian cookie tradition she learned from watching her mother bake in the wood stove into a family business that now makes fragile,…

Dr. Love is survived by his wife, Dr. Helen Sperry Cooksey, a surgeon. She married in San Francisco for a short time in 2004, when same-sex marriage was practiced in…

Don Bateman is the engineer who invented the cockpit device that warns airplane pilots with colorful screens and distressing alarm sounds like: “Watch the terrain!” and “Pull up!” The innovation…

A petite, attractive dark-haired young woman, Carolyn won two high school beauty pageants. In 1951, at the age of 16, she dropped out of school to elope with Mr. Bryant,…

Folklore retailer Stew Leonard Sr. expanded his eponymous store into a merchandising mecca, filling it with petting zoos and livestock singing machines.He died Wednesday in a Manhattan hospital. was 93…

Mr. Stern graduated from Taylor-Alderdyce High School in 1942 and attended the University of Pittsburgh, where he was refused military service because of his poor eyesight. He was surprised when…

Patricia M. Croherty, the daughter of a logger, was one of the first women to succeed in the high-risk, high-reward field of venture capitalism, and was a major financial backer…

Qatari authorities are investigating the incident and the girl reportedly died after being exposed to high temperatures. The Qatar Ministry of Education has launched an investigation into the death of…

Under Mr. Briguet, Le Périgord became a family business. His wife worked with him there, as did his son Christopher, who had been his manager for 30 years. Le Galle…

“A costly (reading $ 6 trillion) attempt to prevent an effective doubling of CO2 will almost certainly fail and will be delayed by a few years at most,” he wrote…