> Highest paid employee: Bob Stoops. > Position: College football coach. > Salary: $5.25 million. Oklahomaâs head coach Bob Stoops received a raise last summer after his team beat the Alabama Crimson Tide â coached by Nick Saban, the highest-paid state employee â in an upset victory in the Sugar Bowl. Stoops is set to earn $5.25 million this season, up from the $5 million in his previous contract.
AP. SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 7â Amanda Blake, the actress who played Miss Kitty on the long-running television series ''Gunsmoke,'' died of AIDS-related complications and not, as a hospital and her friends reported at the time, of cancer, her doctor says.
Best friend Julie Rotondi told People magazine that after she died in a peaceful manner, the most remarkable thing happened. Read: MTV Reality Star Diem Brown Dies at 32. Brown died at 10:22 a.m., exactly the same time she was born in 1982. Soon after, the hospital's fire alarm triggered. There were strobe lights, and it was so loud â like a dance club, Rotondi said. All of our hearts stopped. It was classic Diem. She was up there having her dance off.