Obituaries

Blondie drummer Clem Burke has died after a battle with cancer, the band announced Monday. The self-proclaimed ‘Rock & Roll survivalist’ was 70.

Barile’s group was a linchpin of the drink-and-drug-shunning straight-edge scene of the early 1980s that also included Washington’s Minor Threat.

The Compton resident was a member of the ‘Triple Nickles,’ a World War II combat-ready unit who trained as some of America’s first ‘smokejumpers.’

Disgraced former Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has died. He was 94.

Hurley, a favorite of Cat Power and Lucinda Williams, was ‘the purveyor of an eccentric genius and compassionate wit.’

Val Kilmer’s family speaks out after the actor’s death Tuesday in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Tom Cruise asks a crowd for a moment of silence in honor of his friend.

Friends and colleagues in Los Angeles are mourning the death of Father Richard Estrada, whose decades of activism were infused with an unconditional commitment to advocating for vulnerable populations.

Norman Miller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who headed national coverage at the Los Angeles Times, died at the age of 90.