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Pierre Berge, magnate and Yves Saint Laurent's partner, dies

By ANGELA CHARLTON
Sep 08, 2017 7:00 am - PARIS (AP) - Pierre Berge, an influential French businessman, philanthropist and gay rights activist who helped build the fashion empire of his longtime lover Yves Saint...
Former Western Kentucky center Jim McDaniels dies at 69

The Associated Press
Sep 08, 2017 7:00 am - BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) - Jim McDaniels, a 7-footer who led Western Kentucky to the NCAA Final Four in 1971 and ranks at or near the top of several statistical categorie...
Troy Gentry of Montgomery Gentry dies in helicopter crash

By MESFIN FEKADU
Sep 08, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - As one half of Montgomery Gentry, Troy Gentry - who died Friday in a helicopter crash - helped the country music duo become a successful act in the genre...
Sugar Ramos, champion shadowed by 2 ring deaths, dies at 75

By TIM DAHLBERG
Sep 07, 2017 7:00 am - Sugar Ramos, the Cuban featherweight champion whose fists led to two ring deaths - one inspiring a Bob Dylan song - has died in Mexico City. He was 75. He died Sunday fr...
Gene Michael, architect of 1990s Yankees dynasty, dies at 79

By RONALD BLUM
Sep 07, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Gene Michael, the slick-fielding shortstop nicknamed Stick who went on to manage the New York Yankees and then as an executive built a power that won fou...
Kate Millett, feminist author of 'Sexual Politics,' dies

By HILLEL ITALIE and ANGELA CHARLTON
Sep 07, 2017 7:00 am - PARIS (AP) - Kate Millett, the activist, artist and educator whose best-selling work "Sexual Politics" was a landmark of cultural criticism and a manifesto for the moder...
German musician Holger Czukay, co-founder of Can, dies at 79

The Associated Press
Sep 06, 2017 7:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - Holger Czukay, the co-founder and bassist of avant-garde band Can and a one-time student of composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, has been found dead. He was 79....
Filmmaker Murray Lerner, who shot Dylan going electric, dies

By MARK KENNEDY
Sep 06, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Murray Lerner, who captured Bob Dylan going electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and preserved legendary music ...
Tower of Power former lead singer Rick Stevens dies at 77

The Associated Press
Sep 05, 2017 7:00 am - OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Rick Stevens, the former lead singer of Oakland's Tower of Power rhythm and blues band who spent 36 years in prison, has died. He was 77. KTVU-TV ...
Leader of team that created McGruff the Crime Dog dies

The Associated Press
Sep 05, 2017 7:00 am - WESTMINSTER, Vt. (AP) - John "Jack" Keil, the advertising executive who led the team that created McGruff the Crime Dog and who voiced the character, has died. Keil died...

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