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Ronnie Franklin, jockey for Spectacular Bid, dies at 58

By DAVID GINSBURG
Mar 10, 2018 6:00 am - BALTIMORE (AP) - Ronnie Franklin, who rode Spectacular Bid to victory in the 1979 Kentucky Derby and Preakness before their Triple Crown try was derailed in the Belmont,...
John Sulston, who decoded the human genome, dies at 75

The Associated Press
Mar 09, 2018 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - John Sulston, a Nobel Prize-winning British scientist who helped decode the human genome, has died. He was 75. The Wellcome Sanger Institute, the successor...
Swear, law officer and TV show advisor, dead at 60

The Associated Press
Mar 07, 2018 6:00 am - GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - D'Wayne Swear, a law enforcement officer in Louisiana and Mississippi whose career with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service led to a job as a...
Poet Lucie Brock-Broido dead at 61

The Associated Press
Mar 07, 2018 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Lucie Brock-Broido, a prize-winning poet and educator, has died at age 61. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Wednesday that Brock-Broido died Tuesday a...
Woody Durham, longtime voice of Tar Heels sports, dies at 76

The Associated Press
Mar 07, 2018 6:00 am - CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - Woody Durham, the retired "Voice of the Tar Heels" who called North Carolina football and basketball games for four decades, died Wednesday. He ...
Inventor's firm says creator of the wind-up radio has died

The Associated Press
Mar 05, 2018 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Trevor Baylis, creator of the clockwork or wind-up radio, has died at 80. David Bunting, CEO of Trevor Baylis Brands, says Baylis died Monday after a lengt...
Founder of transformative Tower Records chain dies at 92

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE
Mar 05, 2018 6:00 am - SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Russell Solomon, founder of the Tower Records chain that became a global phenomenon and changed the way people consumed music, has died. He was...
Cyprus FA chief dies after 17 years at post

The Associated Press
Mar 05, 2018 6:00 am - NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - Costakis Koutsokoumnis, the president of the Cyprus Football Association for the last 17 years, has died at 61. The Cyprus FA said on its website ...
Roger Bannister, who broke the 4-minute mile, dies at 88

By CHRIS LEHOURITES
Mar 04, 2018 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Roger Bannister, who as a lanky medical student at Oxford in 1954 electrified the sports world and lifted postwar England's spirits when he became the firs...
'M.A.S.H.' actor David Ogden Stiers dies at age 75

The Associated Press
Mar 04, 2018 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - David Ogden Stiers, a prolific actor best known for playing a surgeon on the "M.A.S.H." television series, has died. He was 75. The actor's agent Mitc...

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