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Sydney Brenner, who helped decipher genetic code, dies at 92

The Associated Press
Apr 06, 2019 7:00 am - LA JOLLA, Calif. (AP) - Sydney Brenner, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist who helped decipher the genetic code and whose research on a roundworm sparked a new field of hum...
Friends, colleagues mourn former state Sen. Don Totten

By Eric Peterson
Apr 05, 2019 1:00 am - Friends, longtime colleagues and political protégés are mourning the death of Don Totten - former Illinois state senator, Cook County Republican Party chairman and Schau...
Artist who created first paint-by-numbers pictures dies

By JOHN SEEWER
Apr 04, 2019 7:00 am - TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Dan Robbins, an artist who created the first paint-by-numbers pictures and helped turn the kits into an American sensation during the 1950s, has died...
Iranian media report veteran actor Mashayekhi dead at 84

The Associated Press
Apr 02, 2019 7:00 am - TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranian media are reporting that veteran film and theater actor Jamshid Mashayekhi has died at age 84. A Tuesday report by the semi-official ISNA new...
Grammy-nominated rapper Nipsey Hussle shot and killed at 33

By MESFIN FEKADU and ANDREW DALTON
Apr 01, 2019 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Rapper Nipsey Hussle was fatally shot outside the clothing store he founded to help rebuild his troubled South Los Angeles neighborhood, police said, ...
Rihanna, Snoop, Ice Cube react to death of Nipsey Hussle

By The Associated Press
Apr 01, 2019 7:00 am - Reaction to the death of rapper Nipsey Hussle, who was shot and killed on Sunday in Los Angeles. ___ - "This doesn't make any sense! My spirit is shaken by this! Dear Go...
Rockabilly Hall of Famer Billy Adams dies at 79

By KRISTIN M. HALL
Apr 01, 2019 7:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Rockabilly Hall of Famer Billy Adams, who wrote and recorded the rockabilly staple "Rock, Pretty Mama," has died. He was 79. Adams died Saturday ...
Ken Gibson, first black Northeast major city mayor, dies

The Associated Press
Mar 31, 2019 7:00 am - NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Ken Gibson, who became the first black mayor of a major Northeast city when he ascended to power in riot-torn Newark almost five decades ago, died. H...
Agnes Varda, French New Wave pioneer, dies at 90

By JAKE COYLE and SAMUEL PETREQUIN
Mar 29, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Agnes Varda, the French New Wave pioneer who for decades beguiled, challenged and charmed moviegoers in films that inspired generations of filmmakers, ha...
Motorist hit in face by frozen turkey dies years later at 59

The Associated Press
Mar 28, 2019 7:00 am - LAKE RONKONKOMA, N.Y. (AP) - A New Yorker who urged leniency for the teenager who nearly killed her in 2004 by throwing a frozen turkey through her car windshield has di...

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