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ROSARITO, Mexico (AP) - Coretta Scott King was partially paralyzed and suffering from advanced ovarian cancer when she arrived last week at the alternative medicine clinic where she died early Tuesday, clinic doctors said. They gave the cause of death as respiratory failure, related both to a serious stroke she suffered about three months ago and the cancer they said was diagnosed last year. King, 78, checked into the Santa Monica Health Institute in the Mexican beach resort of Rosarito, 16 miles south of San Diego, on Thursday under another name. The doctors said they did not know who she...

Black Conservatives Mourn the Passing of Coretta Scott King To: National Desk For Release: January 31, 2006 Contact David Almasi, 202-543-4110, ext. 11 or Project21@nationalcenter.org Members of the black leadership network Project 21 are mourning the passing of Coretta Scott King. Project 21 members praise her legacy of exhibiting strong family unity in the face of great personal tragedy and for maintaining her husband's dream of equal rights for all. Mrs. King, the widow of the slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., reportedly died in her sleep. She suffered from a heart attack and a stroke in...

ROSARITO BEACH, Mexico - The Mexican clinic where Coretta Scott King died Tuesday was known for providing alternative treatments to patients with incurable diseases. King, 78, suffered a serious stroke and heart attack last year, but her family and clinic employees declined to release any information about her treatment at the Santa Monica Health Institute. Bishop T.D. Jakes of The Potter's House church in Dallas said he helped King get to Mexico, but he didn't know what kind of treatment she was seeking. "Mrs. King was very health conscious, even before she got ill. I'm not surprised that she would...

I just heard on the news that Mrs. Coretta King has died. Just my personal opinion, but she was a dignified, classy woman who served her country and her late husband's memory quite well.

Coretta Scott King, who turned a life shattered by her husband's assassination into one devoted to enshrining his legacy of human rights and equality, has died. She was 78. Flags at the King Center were lowered to half-staff Tuesday morning. "We appreciate the prayers and condolences from people across the country," the King family said in a statement. The family said she died overnight, but did not say where she died. She suffered a serious stroke and heart attack in 2005.

ATLANTA - Coretta Scott King's daughters beamed as they emerged from a hospital Thursday and announced that more than a month after suffering a stroke and mild heart attack, their mother was coming home. The 78-year-old widow of civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King had been unable to speak and was paralyzed on her right side when she was hospitalized on Aug. 16. Since then, she has made significant progress, said her daughters, Bernice and Yolanda King, and her physician, Dr. Maggie Mermin. "Our prayers have been answered," the Rev. Bernice King said. Mermin said King was making progress...

Widow of MLK Jr. remains hospitalized in fair condition The Associated Press Updated: 2:25 p.m. ET Aug. 17, 2005 ATLANTA - Coretta Scott King remained hospitalized in fair condition Wednesday and a family friend said the 78-year-old widow of Martin Luther King Jr. had suffered a stroke. King was admitted to Piedmont Hospital on Tuesday, and the family released a statement Wednesday saying she was resting comfortably. It expressed thanks for the "outpouring of care and support that's being sent from around the world." Hospital spokeswoman Diana Lewis and the family wouldn't discuss her illness, but the Rev. Joseph Lowery...

The widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was admitted to an Atlanta hospital this morning for an unspecified condition. (AP, 1:21 p.m.)

Martin Luther King's widow gives her support to gay marriage POMONA, N.J. - The widow of Martin Luther King Jr. called gay marriage a civil rights issue, denouncing a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban it. Constitutional amendments should be used to expand freedom, not restrict it, Coretta Scott King said Tuesday. "Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union," she said. "A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages." Last month, President Bush...

Civil Rights Leader Coretta Scott King denounced the Bush Administration Foreign Policy as she accepted an award for her work in the gay community, saying homeland security should focus on domestic problems ranging from hate crimes to homelessness.'A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists and drain as much as 200 Billion taxpayer dollars, which should be used for human development here in America,' the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said.'It seems to me that true homeland security ought to be more about providing health care for every citizen, and less about shuffling bueraucratic agencies...

San Francisco-AP -- Coretta Scott King is speaking out against the possibility of a war on Iraq. She says an attack on Saddam Hussein would increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists and drain as much as 200 billion taxpayer dollars that she says should be invested in America. The civil rights leader and widow of Martin Luther King Junior says homeland security ought to be "more about providing health care for every citizen, and less about reshuffling bureaucratic agencies and undermining our civil liberties." King spoke in San Francisco last night, after receiving an award from the Metropolitan Community Foundation....

ATLANTA (AP) - The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow called Monday for an end to acrimony in politics as Americans paused to remember the slain civil rights leader. Coretta Scott King talked last year about avoiding war in Iraq, and her plea for nonviolence returned this year. "Peaceful ends can only be reached through peaceful means," she said in her annual King Day address. But this year, with the presidential contest looming, Mrs. King also talked about peace at home. "The noblest goal is not conquest of enemies but reconciliation with adversaries. We must remember in this election year...

Coretta Scott King encourages political parties to soften rhetoric; Franklin criticizes Bush The Associated Press The widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. called for peace at home, not just abroad, in her annual speech to commemorate the slain civil rights leader, who would've turned 75 this month. Coretta Scott King talked last year about avoiding war in Iraq, and her plea for nonviolence returned Monday. "Peaceful ends can only be reached through peaceful means," she said. But this year, Mrs. King also talked about the acrimonious tone of politics in America. "The noblest goal is not conquest...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s image has been used to protest a potential war on Iraq, denounce a gay rights law and sell wireless phone service. The trouble, of course, is that the civil rights leader "is not here to speak for himself," said the Rev. Richard Bennett, executive director of the African American Council of Christian Clergy in Miami. On the eve of the holiday commemorating King's birth, some scholars and civil rights leaders say that while it's not much of a stretch to assert that King would have opposed war with Iraq -- he was an advocate of nonviolence...