> 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.
Queen of R&B, Aaliyah, died in a plane crash in the Bahamas at the age of 22 on August 25, 2001 15 of 19 Americaâs golden boy, John F. Kennedy Jr. lost his life in a plane crash on his way to Marthaâs Vineyard on July 16, 1999.