Gail Cox, reporter was 59

Gail Diane Cox used to be the Los Angeles bureau chief for the National Law Journal. She also had worked for KPFK, and was living in Forest Falls in the San Bernardino Mountains when she died after a long illness. Today's obituary by Myrna Oliver in the Times recounts Cox's brief episode as a news subject herself when she survived four days in Northern California's Trinity Alps after becoming lost while looking at wildflowers: "I'm very fortunate," Cox said afterward. "I was not going hiking or on a camping trip. I am not an outdoors woman."