Engineer motivated by deep love of sports

• Bill Hoover Sr.: Grosse Pointe teacher had personal touch

  Grosse Pointe --Mechanical things fascinated Bill Hoover Sr., but respect… Full story on DetNews.com

• Sports advocate coached kids

  Tim Doyle was so dedicated to overseeing parks and recreation… Full story on DetNews.com

• OBITUARY: PR expert Frederick Marx focused on clients, family

  Frederick Marx, a metro Detroit public-relations dynamo who co-founded a… Full story on Freep.com

• PR marvel Frederick Marx dies of heart failure

  Frederick Marx, a metro Detroit public relations dynamo who cofounded… Full story on Freep.com

• Fred Marx, of Marx Layne public relations firm, dies at 67

  Farmington Hills -- Fred Marx, co-founding partner of the Marx… Full story on DetNews.com

• Politician loved public service

  Whether serving as a mayor, city councilman, or a Macomb… Full story on DetNews.com

• Engineer loved to explore

  Years after he left his engineering job at Ford Motor… Full story on DetNews.com

• OBITUARY: Leonard Haggerty served his country, city, county

  Leonard Haggerty, a retired Macomb County commissioner and former Roseville… Full story on Freep.com

• Banker, rights activist put family first

  Of Joseph L. Hansknecht's accomplishments, including being a presidential appointee… Full story on DetNews.com

• Inventor who claimed to have seen Nessie dies

  BOSTON (AP) -- Robert H. Rines, a lawyer, composer, inventor and physicist whose discoveries led to sharper resolution in radar, sonar and ultrasound imaging and who claimed to have seen the Loch Ness Monster, has died. He was 87.... Full story

• UAB spokesman: Former NBA player Alan Ogg dies

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Alan Ogg, a 7-foot-2 shotblocker who played for UAB and spent parts of three seasons in the NBA, died Sunday from complications from a staph infection, a university spokesman said. He was 42.... Full story

• Former Iowa football coach Evashevski dies at 91

  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Forest Evashevski, the former Michigan football star coached Iowa to two Rose Bowl victories in the 1950s, has died. He was 91.... Full story

• Father of China's space tech program dies at 98

  BEIJING (AP) -- Qian Xuesen, a rocket scientist known as the father of China's space technology program, died Saturday in Beijing, the official Xinhua News Agency said. He was 98.... Full story

• Former South Korean spy master Lee Hu-rak dies

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Former South Korean spy chief Lee Hu-rak, who brokered the signing of a historic 1972 peace document with North Korea following a secret trip to Pyongyang, died Saturday. He was 85.... Full story

• 'Palimony' figure Michelle Triola Marvin dies

  LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Michelle Triola Marvin whose landmark lawsuit against her former lover, "Dirty Dozen" actor Lee Marvin, placed the word "palimony" into the family law lexicon and changed the legal rights of unmarried cohabiting partners, died Friday at age 76.... Full story

• Lawyer in landmark breast implant lawsuits dies

  HOUSTON (AP) -- Flamboyant lawyer John O'Quinn, who won billions in verdicts against makers of breast implants, pharmaceuticals and tobacco products, died Thursday in a traffic wreck. He was 68.... Full story

• Nicolas Cage's father, August Coppola, dead at 75

  LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Nicolas Cage's father, literature professor August Coppola, has died. He was 75.... Full story

• Summer theater producer John Kenley dies at 103

  CLEVELAND (AP) -- John Kenley, a longtime theater producer who ran a legendary summer stock circuit in Ohio beginning in the 1950s, has died. He was 103.... Full story

• DeCarava, photographer who recorded Harlem, dies

  NEW YORK (AP) -- Roy DeCarava, a photographer whose black and white images captured Harlem's everyday life and the jazz greats who performed there, has died. He was 89.... Full story