> 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.
Pioneering female country singer Kitty Wells died today at her home in Madison, Tennessee, due to complications from a stroke, her grandson John Sturdivant Jr. told the New York Times. She was 92. At the time, the then-33-year-old wife and mother was preparing to call it a day in the music industry to become a homemaker.