> 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.
Nellie Gray, who in 1974 helped start the annual antiabortion demonstration in Washington called March for Life that attracts thousands to the nation's capital, has died. She was 88. According to The Washington Post, Gene Ruane, a colleague, said that he found Miss Gray dead Monday in her Capitol Hill home and that the chief medical examiner will determine the cause and date of her death.