Donald “Donnie” Chin, 59, who since his youth worked to help people in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District — aiding in medical emergencies, checking on the elderly, assisting the homeless — and who worked most of his life at the International District Emergency Center there, was shot and killed in the ID early Thursday; police are investigating.
E.L. Doctorow, 84, author of “Ragtime,” “Billy Bathgate” and other novels, whose best-known works wove historical figures into imaginative retellings of a distinctly American tale of class, race and fragile truths, died of lung cancer Tuesday in New York City.