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Paralympian Marieke Vervoort fulfills wish to take own life

By STEPHEN WADE
Oct 23, 2019 7:00 am - Paralympian Marieke Vervoort said when the day arrived, she had signed the euthanasia papers and was prepared to end her life. That day came Tuesday in her native Belgiu...
Former AP civil rights reporter Kathryn Johnson dies

By ALLEN G. BREED
Oct 23, 2019 7:00 am - Kathryn Johnson, a trailblazing reporter for The Associated Press whose intrepid coverage of the civil rights movement and other major stories led to a string of legenda...
Indianapolis pastor Dixon who defied IRS dead at age 87

The Associated Press
Oct 22, 2019 7:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The Rev. Greg J. Dixon, founder of the Indianapolis Baptist Temple that federal marshals seized in a tax dispute, has died. He was 87. His son and su...
'Jeffersons,' 'Diff'rent Strokes' producer Al Burton dies

The Associated Press
Oct 22, 2019 7:00 am - SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) - Al Burton, a TV producer whose six-decade career included an eclectic mix of beauty pageants, variety and game shows and groundbreaking comedies...
Cummings recalled as powerful orator who took on White House

By BRIAN WITTE and REGINA GARCIA CANO
Oct 18, 2019 7:00 am - BALTIMORE (AP) - Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cumming, who died Thursday at age 68, was remembered as a moral voice of conscience in a divisive era - a leader who fought for ...
Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd is dead at 62

By The Associated Press
Oct 18, 2019 7:00 am - Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd, who led two Silicon Valley giants, has died at 62. Oracle confirmed his death Friday, but gave no cause. Hurd was on medical leave, which Oracle...
'Maude' co-star, character actor Bill Macy dies at 97

By LYNN ELBER
Oct 18, 2019 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Bill Macy, the character actor whose hangdog expression was a perfect match for his role as the long-suffering foil to Bea Arthur's unyielding feminis...
Cummings, powerful congressman leading Trump probe, has died

By BRIAN WITTE and REGINA GARCIA CANO
Oct 17, 2019 7:00 am - BALTIMORE (AP) - Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper's son who rose to become a civil rights champion and the chairman of one of the U.S. House committees l...
'Heartbroken': GOP mourns Cummings as friend, statesman

By MATTHEW DALY
Oct 17, 2019 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - "Heartbroken." That's how North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows, one of the most conservative members of the House, reacted Thursday to the death of Marylan...
Ed Beck, part of Kentucky's 1958 NCAA title team, dies at 83

The Associated Press
Oct 17, 2019 7:00 am - LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Ed Beck, a fierce rebounder for Kentucky's 1958 NCAA championship team nicknamed the "Fiddlin' Five," has died. He was 83. The school said Beck die...

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