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Judge Frank Caprio, beloved for viral court videos, dies at 88

  • Aug 21, 2025

Miss Kings County pageant winner passes away at 19

  • Apr 18, 2025
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North Carolina football player dies from rare lung cancer at 23

  • Oct 13, 2024

O.J. Simpson named longtime lawyer as his executor in his will

  • Apr 14, 2024

Cancer deaths declining, but increase in some types for young adults

  • Jan 17, 2024

DJ Casper, 'Cha Cha Slide' creator, dies at 58: wife

  • Aug 8, 2023

Colon cancer rising among young adults 20-49 years old

  • Mar 29, 2023

Veteran CNN investigative journalist Drew Griffin dead at 60

  • Dec 19, 2022

Latest Videos

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Broadway star Kelli O'Hara sings National Anthem, runs to honor lost loved ones in NYC Marathon

  • Nov 5, 2021
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Popular Central High School football coach loses his battle with cancer

  • Feb 22, 2017
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Fresno art exhibit pays tribute to cancer victim

  • Aug 7, 2015
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Visalia man loses battle with cancer, leaves behind legacy

  • Jul 10, 2015
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Fresno Police Detective Edgar Valle Sandoval loses battle with pancreatic cancer

  • Apr 13, 2015
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Fresno Police Detective Edgar Valle Sandoval loses battle with pancreatic cancer

  • Apr 13, 2015

Latest Stories

Cancer death rates fall, with a few exceptions

Scientific advances and awareness programs have helped fight back cancer deaths, experts say.

  • Jul 9, 2021

Surviving combat only to die at home: This soldier is picking out his coffin at 35

It's the smoldering trash from the massive burn pits on US military bases -- sometimes acres in size -- that will soon kill him.

  • Jun 21, 2021
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Grieving husband tries to donate expensive leftover cancer drugs, but no one will let him

Ed Casaccia's wife Maggie died three weeks ago from breast cancer. He has an unopened box of 21 tablets of her cancer drugs, which he estimates cost $24,000 without insurance. He wants to give the medication to someone who needs it, but that task has proven impossible.

  • Jun 3, 2021

45 is the new 50 for colon cancer screening guidelines, medical task force says

A US medical task force is recommending that people of average risk start getting screened for colon cancer at age 45, rather than 50.

  • May 19, 2021

'She gave me a purpose': Merced mother to set up scholarship in honor of daughter who died from brain cancer

"She fulfilled my life in every way possible. She gave me a purpose." On Valentine's Day, Latisha Tapetillo lost her daughter and best friend, 20-year-old Larayna, to brain cancer.

  • Mar 1, 2021