Poynter's St. Petersburg Times
Timothy Roche, who went to jail in 1993 to protect a source and later distinguished himself at the St. Petersburg Times and Time, died Friday after suffering multiple strokes. In his last story for Time magazine in 2002, Roche painstakenly recreated the life of
John Lindh, the American arrested for fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan. "He was our best investigative reporter," says Time news director
Howard Chua-Eoan. || MORE OBITS:
Tim Kaiser, 45; and
Roy Heffelfinger, 72.
