> 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.
Funicello has suffered from MS for many years, and had been open about her fight with the ailment. She was understandably much quieter in the final years of her life, which could lead some to forget that she actually died three years ago. Former Mouseketeer Annette Funicello passed away back in 2013, not just this month: https://t.co/N0COQo2GeH pic.twitter.com/07VA1ELHtP.