World's oldest man, a New Yorker, dies

GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. -- Guinness World Records says the former musician and coal miner certified as the world's oldest man has died. Salustiano Sanchez-Blazquez was 112.

Guinness consultant Robert Young said Sanchez-Blazquez died Friday at a nursing home in Grand Island.

Nicknamed "Shorty," Sanchez-Blazquez became the world's oldest man when Jiroemon Kimura died in June at age 116.

Sanchez-Blazquez was born June 8, 1901, in the village of El Tejado de Bejar, Spain. He moved to Cuba at 17, then in 1920 to the United States where he worked the coal mines of Lynch, Ky. He eventually moved to the Niagara Falls area.

He had two children, seven grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren. -- AP