An infant found dead on Monday by his baby sitter in a Johnson Ranch-area home day care died of untreated pneumonia, a preliminary autopsy report found.

DETROIT - Eminem is recovering from a bout with pneumonia that sent him to the hospital. "Over the holidays, Marshall Mathers, aka Eminem, was under doctor's care at a Detroit-area hospital for complications due to pneumonia," the rapper's publicist, Dennis Dennehy, said Tuesday. "He has since been released and is doing well recovering at home."

Gov. Janet Napolitano is spending $100,000 to help convince people to get vaccinated against pneumonia.

BANGOR, Maine - Stephen King was expected to remain in a Maine hospital on Thanksgiving as he recovers from pneumonia, a spokesman said.

CHICAGO - Comedian Bernie Mac is in a Chicago hospital with pneumonia.

VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II is breathing on his own and is not suffering from pneumonia, the Vatican said Friday, taking pains to cast his condition in a positive light a day after he was rushed to a hospital and underwent surgery to ease another breathing crisis.

NEW YORK - Luther Vandross contracted pneumonia after suffering a stroke and had to undergo a tracheotomy to help him breathe, but the procedure didn't damage his vocal chords, his representatives said Monday.

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OSLO, Norway - For kids, Keiko the killer whale was the charming hero of "Free Willy." For biologists, he was the focus of fierce debate on whether captive animals could be returned to the wild.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Les Paul, who invented the solid-body electric guitar later wielded by a legion of rock 'n' roll greats, died Thursday of complications from pneumonia. He was 94.

Fatburger founder Lovie Yancey, who opened her first then-called Mr. Fatburger in south-central Los Angeles in 1947, has died of pneumonia at age 96.