Queen of Cocaine killed in Colombia at 69

A woman who was known as Colombia "queen of cocaine," was killed in the northwestern city of Medellin, police reported Tuesday.

Griselda Blanco, 69, was killed by two shots at close range - not unlike a violent end to say that the authorities ordered its first year in 1970 and 1980.

Witnesses heard the roar of a motorcycle and two gunshot wounds Monday afternoon, Medellin police spokesman Joe Chavarria said.

When authorities arrived on the scene in Bethlehem, a suburb of Medellin, White was found lying on the floor in a pool of blood.

White, known as the "godmother" and "mother mafia" has gained notoriety in the 1970's and 80's, when, according to authorities, was responsible for sending shipments of several tons of cocaine from Colombia to Miami. It was also the mind, the researchers say, the countless murders. This is also linked to the drug Pablo Escobar.

In 1975, White was charged with conspiracy to Miami for the production, distribution and trafficking of cocaine to the United States.

Over the next ten years, lived in Colombia, using false names and documents to hide from the authorities. The Drug Enforcement Administration arrested White in Irvine, California in 1985.

He was sentenced to six years in prison.

But prosecutors had not finished with her. White was convicted in 1994 of ordering three murders in the Miami area. - The murders, including three years Johnny Castro, who was killed while riding in a car with his father's sight - it happened in 1982.

Speaking of his case when he was accused Singleton's, a sergeant with the Metro Dade Police Department, said police believed that White was responsible for dozens of murders in the Miami area.

"If I had been one of the most prolific traffickers in the Miami area, who clearly was one of the most violent. Already have, cautiously, his estimate of participating in at least 40 murders between Miami, Broward and Queens", which said at the time.

After fulfilling his sentence, Blanco was deported to his native Colombia in 2004, where he lived a quiet life apparently. Local media reported that he was killed as he left a butcher with a pregnant daughter-in-law, who was not injured.

According to a report on CNN affiliate Caracol TV, White was the mother of four children. One of them is still serving a sentence for drug trafficking in the United States, and two died. The fourth life in Colombia.

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Cuban anti-Castro activist Oswaldo Paya dies at 60

Cuba activist Oswaldo Paya, who has spent decades speaking against the communist government of Fidel and Raul Castro and became one of the strongest voices of dissent against the government of his half-century, died Sunday in a car crash in Cuba had 60.

Paya and a man described by the Cuban press as a fellow activist, Harold Cepero Escalante died in a traffic accident in The Seagull, just outside the eastern city of Bayamo, the Cuban authorities said. A Spaniard and a Swede in the car were injured.

Cuba's International Press Centre told the Associated Press reported that witnesses said the driver of the vehicle lost control and struck a tree.

Paya, who draw strength from his Roman Catholic roots, he pressed for the change in his homeland, he again expressed his opposition, after Fidel Castro resigned due to illness in the first months of 2008, calling for the approval of the presidency a disappointment to his younger brother Raul.

Paya has become an activist in late 1980 when he founded the NGO Christian Liberation Movement, which emphasizes the peaceful civic action.

He gained international fame as a top organizer of the Varela Project, a unit of collecting signatures on the authorities to request a referendum on laws guaranteeing civil rights such as freedom of speech and assembly.

Shortly before President Carter visited Cuba in 2002, Paya delivered 11,020 signatures to the parliament of the island in search of this initiative.

He then delivered a second batch of petitions with over 14,000 signatures to the National Assembly, the parliament of Cuba poses a renewed challenge to the socialist island.

The Varela Project was seen as the largest non-violent campaign to change the system greater stability of Castro after the Cuban revolution of 1959.

The government annulled the first set of firms and launched his own successful petition drive to establish the island as a socialist system "irrevocable" in the Cuban Constitution.

Paya has continued its efforts, saying it was important to mobilize human rights in Cuba to ask the government for approval of the project.

However, his influence declined in recent years, particularly its younger activists in the international headlines.

Paya and other former opposition figures are described disparagingly leaked, confidential diplomatic cables Americans as old, divided by petty rivalries and not in contact with young people on the island.

Oswaldo José Paya Sardiñas was born February 29, 1952, the fifth of seven children of a Catholic family.

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Air Force Sergeant Jesse Childress dies at 29

Jesse Childress, a sergeant of the Air Force for 29 years in the area of Palmdale, was one of 12 people who died in the tragedy.

Childress died as a hero to jump in front of a service member to protect his partner from the bullets. Another service member said Childress saved his life.

"I can not even comprehend the immensity of it," said Thomas Maxwell, a family friend.

The sergeant had gone to see "The Dark Knight Rises" with colleagues from Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora.

Childress, who was the town of Lake Los Angeles, was in active service and worked as a computer systems operator. Loved comic books and other sports, said his friends.

"Never heard of this show I feel because I'm so sad," said Laurence Green, a neighbor of the family of Childress. "Nobody should try something."

President Barack Obama has offered comfort to the survivors on Sunday night and the families of the dead, when James Holmes opened fire in a crowded cinema.

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Barbara Jean Carnegie Berwald dies at 94

Barbara Jean Carnegie Berwald, 94, the first wife of media magnate Jack Kent Cooke and sport, the record of a divorce settlement precipitated the sale of the Lakers, Kings and Forum by Jerry Buss, died Friday of heart failure at his home in Purchase, New York, John Kent Cooke his nephew, Jr. said.

Born in 1917 in Port Perry, Canada, and soon after moved with his family in St. Catharines, in the province of Ontario.

Cooke married in 1934, when he was 17 years old and an inclination of 21 years old encyclopedia salesman in case of success.

He moved to California in 1960 and became U.S. citizens. Her husband has acquired the broadcasting, publishing, sports and real estate worth between $ 80 million and $ 100 million when the property was divided in 1979, two years after her divorce.

They were married for 42 years and had two sons, Ralph Kent Cooke and John Kent Cooke.

To finance the liquidation of approximately $ 41,000,000 ordered by Judge Joseph Wapner, Cooke sold his sports teams Los Angeles and Inglewood arena, as well as a cattle ranch in Northern California, in Buss, who still owns the Lakers. The solution was then a U.S. record.

He kept a pair of Bel-Air, was active in charity in Los Angeles and later married Thomas Berwald.

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William D. Pawley Jr. dies at 92

William D. Pawley Jr., 92, a decorated pilot in World War II is often called the first true love, actress Elizabeth Taylor, died July 10 in Florida, his family announced. The cause was not determined.

Pawley, a resident of Pembroke Pines, Florida, was the son of the U.S. ambassador to Brazil and Peru, Mr. William Pawley

He was born June 21, 1920, in Atlanta, Georgia, but grew up in a mansion in Miami Beach from their rich parents. This is where the then 28-year-old veteran of the Army Air Forces began an affair with the actress, then 17 years old.

They met during a visit to Miami for Taylor and his mother in early 1949.

Even if Taylor had been linked with the former football star Glenn Davis in a love story, designed by his mother and his studio, his relation with Pawley was true. But not for long.

The couple announced their engagement in June 1949, but the fall had become the diamond ring given him.

Friends said Taylor is expected to reduce Pawley his career as an actress, once married. The following year she married Nicky Hilton in the first of his eight trips to the altar.

The novel is detailed in more than 60 love letters Taylor wrote Pawley, who has maintained for decades. They were auctioned after his death last year.

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Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv dies at 102

Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, considered one of the most influential religious officials of his generation, died Wednesday Shaa Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. Was 102 and had been in declining health.

Decisions Elyashiv left a deep mark on many Jews who follow their interpretation of religious writings of contemporary problems, for example, whether to keep the patient alive.

Other decisions have influenced Israeli policy, the rabbi was the authority responsible for the Torah of Judaism, a small political party, but powerful.

"The people of Israel has lost a great rabbi, a ruler and a strong man of extraordinary wisdom," said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a statement. "We mourn his death."

Born in Lithuania in 1910 to a line of scholars rabínicos, Elyashiv settled district of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem ultraorthodox after he had moved to Palestine with his family in 1924.

He was mainly self-taught scholar. After taking a seat at the High Rabbinic Court for over two decades, he plunged into the study and who became the ruling most famous rabbi in matters of religious practices.

Respect to its decisions has grown and gained a rare consensus among the orthodox in splinters, the herald of the light as many of the pillars of the Jewish people in modern times.

Elyashiv is considered a literal interpreter of lyrics and a conservative judge. He has challenged colleges for students and scholars of the Torah is opposed to disconnect patients from life support in brain death, saying it was a murder.

Despite the increasing importance, the reputed leader of Lithuanian stream ultraorthodoxy joined his modest lifestyle in the same apartment where he raised his large family and followers received the blessings and seeking answers to religious issues. As was fragile, a small synagogue was erected close to home so you can follow his teachings.

Described as a humble man, Elyashiv not to celebrate a public stand. However, it became a key figure in Israeli politics with the formation of Torah Judaism, an ultra-Orthodox political party, which some governments often key members.

As the supreme authority of the party, Elyashiv ruled government and lawmakers to act on your instructions.

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British keyboardist Jon Lord dies at 71

Jon Lord, 71 years, a British keyboardist Deep Purple and Whitesnake, died in London on Monday of a pulmonary embolism after a battle with pancreatic cancer, according to a statement on their official website.

Lord co-wrote some of the most famous Deep Purple songs like "Smoke on the Water", and later had a successful solo career after his retirement from the band in 2002.

The, the musician born in Leicester, England began playing the piano, before taking classical music lessons before moving on to rock 'n'.

After moving to London to attend drama school, he joined the Artwoods Blues Band in 1964 and then toured with the test men known for their hit "Let's Go to San Francisco" before 'join Deep Purple in 1968,.

Deep Purple, which at its peak with the Lord this singer Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, drummer Ian Paice and bassist Roger Glover was one of the first hard-rock in 1970.

Influenced by classical music, blues and jazz, the Lord took his Hammond organ and distorted its powerful sound effects on songs like "Hush," "Highway Star", "Lazy" and "Child in Time ".

The group has sold over 100 million albums before disbanding in 1976.

God has continued to play hard rock band Whitesnake in the 70 and 80 and later rejoined Deep Purple.

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