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WWII Navajo Code Talker Samuel Tom Holiday dies at age 94

The Associated Press
Jun 12, 2018 7:00 am - ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) - Samuel Tom Holiday, one of the last surviving Navajo Code Talkers, died in southern Utah Monday surrounded by family members who raised money thr...
Doors biographer Jerry Hopkins dead at 82

The Associated Press
Jun 12, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Jerry Hopkins, a prolific music journalist who co-wrote a million-selling biography of the Doors that Oliver Stone adapted into a feature film, has died....
Neal Boyd, one-Time 'America's Got Talent' winner, dies

The Associated Press
Jun 11, 2018 7:00 am - SIKESTON, Mo. (AP) - Neal Boyd, an opera singer who won NBC's "America's Got Talent" and dabbled in Missouri politics, has died. Scott County Coroner Scott Amick says ...
Dorothy Cotton, civil rights pioneer and MLK colleague, dies

By JEFF MARTIN
Jun 11, 2018 7:00 am - ATLANTA (AP) - Dorothy Cotton, who worked closely with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., taught nonviolence to demonstrators before marches and sometimes calmed tensions ...
'A legend of Mount Prospect': Blind roller derby champion Sammy Skobel dies at 92

By Chacour Koop
Jun 11, 2018 1:00 am - Sammy Skobel lost his eyesight in the beginning of his life. At the end, it was his memory. Yet neither setback stopped him from seizing on a life of love and family, ro...
Brazilian tennis great Maria Bueno dies after cancer battle

By STAN LEHMAN and MAURICIO SAVARESE
Jun 09, 2018 7:00 am - SAO PAULO (AP) - Maria Bueno, a Brazilian tennis great who won three Wimbledon singles titles and four at the U.S. Open in the 1950s and 1960s, and helped usher in moder...
Longtime CBS News correspondent Murray Fromson dies at 88

By MICHAEL BALSAMO
Jun 09, 2018 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Murray Fromson, a longtime CBS News correspondent and former Associated Press reporter, known for his work during the Korean and Vietnam wars, has die...
Holocaust survivor Gena Turgel, consoler of Anne Frank, dies

By DANICA KIRKA
Jun 09, 2018 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Gena Turgel, a Holocaust survivor who comforted Anne Frank at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp before the young diarist's death and the camp's liberati...
Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Danny Kirwan dies at age 68

The Associated Press
Jun 09, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Mick Fleetwood says former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Danny Kirwan has died at age 68. Fleetwood says in a Facebook post that Kirwan died Friday in London. ...
For Bourdain, food was a storytelling tool _ and a passport

By JOCELYN NOVECK
Jun 09, 2018 7:00 am - Many people thought Anthony Bourdain had the most enviable career in existence. He didn't deny it. "I have the best job in the world," the globe-trotting food-taster and...

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