
Carmine Persico, Colombo Crime Family Boss, Is Dead at 85
Mr. Persico, nicknamed the Snake, died in prison. He was serving a combined 139-year sentence after being convicted of leading a vast and violent criminal enterprise.
By Selwyn Raab
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Mr. Persico, nicknamed the Snake, died in prison. He was serving a combined 139-year sentence after being convicted of leading a vast and violent criminal enterprise.
By Selwyn Raab

The Babe’s adopted daughter was a tireless promoter of baseball, and of her father’s legacy.
By Richard Goldstein

Ms. Grant, who was the wife of one Times publisher, mother of another and grandmother of a third, devoted much of her life to volunteerism.
By The New York Times

Mr. Jenkins, an early star at Sports Illustrated, pressed the limits of irreverence in novels often about good old boys.
By Bruce Weber

Mr. Vincent was seen frequently in movies and on TV in the 1970s and ’80s. But his career later foundered, in part because of drug and alcohol abuse.
By Daniel E. Slotnik

Mr. Sheinberg helped turn the studio into a behemoth with theme parks, record companies, television production and, above all, movie blockbusters.
By Brooks Barnes

She drew notice for a story of a gay attraction that threatens a marriage and a fictional diary of a woman in Nazi Germany that some took to be true.
By Neil Genzlinger

His condemnation of the educational bureaucracy, in a book published during a dispute over decentralization in 1968, fueled the movement that led to mayoral control.
By Sam Roberts

“If you made a wrong move or did not do what you were supposed to do,” he said of protecting the president, “it would ruin your life.”
By Richard Sandomir

Morgan, who was the first woman to earn an architect’s license in California, was a prolific designer of hundreds of buildings, namely the Hearst Castle at San Simeon.

Donald Joseph White, considered a legend before “street art” became popular, turned New York City’s subways into rolling canvases of color, humor and social commentary.

Bolden adapted the organizing techniques she learned as a civil rights activist to secure protections for domestic workers, a largely unregulated part of the work force.

Randall, a poet and librarian, started the press out of his home, eventually publishing the work of about 200 writers amid Detroit’s flowering Black Arts Movement.

Grammer’s self-run adoption agency made it possible for unwanted mixed-race children in Germany to find homes after World War II.
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