Hal Sanders was the epitome of the small-town boy who makes good, except he wasn't even from a small town. He grew up poor, surrounded by cornfields in rural Illinois, and went on to become a hospital executive who, in retirement, became a champion of single-payer health care on the local and national level. Mr. (Yesterday)

When the Schenley High School basketball team won a state championship in 1978, Calvin Kane was one of the main catalysts for the Spartans. Mr. Kane was the team's starting point guard and helped the Spartans march through the state tournament, culminating with a 51-50 victory against Lebanon High School in the PIAA Class AAA title game. Lebanon featured 7-foot star Sam Bowie. Mr. (Yesterday)

Magazine distributor Robert B. Cohen, who built the Hudson News chain of newsstands from one store at New York's LaGuardia Airport and changed the way travelers spend their downtime, has died at age 86. (02/10/2012)

Nearly every week of his adult life, the Rev. Ed DeLair wrote notes. The Rev. Betty Angelini, executive director of the Crestfield Camp & Conference Center in Slippery Rock, got one recently, in which Rev. DeLair told her that God had called her to raise enough money for camp improvements. (02/09/2012)

The last veteran of World War I was a waitress, and for 90 years no one knew her name. Florence Green, a member of Britain's Royal Air Force who was afraid of flying, died Saturday in England, two weeks shy of her 111th birthday. (02/09/2012)