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Martin McGuinness, IRA leader turned peacemaker, dies at 66

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK
Mar 21, 2017 7:00 am - DUBLIN (AP) - Martin McGuinness took up arms to fight British soldiers in the streets but ended up shaking hands with Queen Elizabeth II. A militant who long sought to u...
Robert Silvers, edited New York Review of Books, dead at 87

By HILLEL ITALIE
Mar 20, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Robert B. Silvers, the exacting and perpetual editor of The New York Review of Books who responded to private groaning over the state of criticism and he...
Guardian of Rockefeller fortune, philanthropy dies at 101

By DEEPTI HAJELA
Mar 20, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - David Rockefeller was the last of his generation in a famous American family that taught its children that wealth brings great responsibility. Even as ch...
Jimmy Breslin, chronicler of wise guys and underdogs, dies

By VERENA DOBNIK
Mar 19, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Jimmy Breslin scored one of his best-remembered interviews with President John F. Kennedy's grave-digger and once drove straight into a riot where he was...
A talk with Jimmy Breslin, New York's "New Yorkiest" writer

By JERRY SCHWARTZ
Mar 19, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - In May 2002, Associated Press National Writer Jerry Schwartz interviewed the famously blunt-yet-lyric author and columnist Jimmy Breslin about his life a...
Chuck Berry's influence on rock 'n roll was incalculable

By HILLEL ITALIE
Mar 19, 2017 7:00 am - Rock n' roll was more than a new kind of music, but a new story to tell, one for kids with transistor radios in their hands and money in their pockets, beginning to rais...
Rock 'n' roll legend Chuck Berry dies at 90

By HILLEL ITALIE and JIM SUHR
Mar 18, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Chuck Berry, rock 'n' roll's founding guitar hero and storyteller who defined the music's joy and rebellion in such classics as "Johnny B. Goode," ''Swee...
Miloslav Vlk, a clandestine priest during communism, dies

By FRANCES D'EMILIO
Mar 18, 2017 7:00 am - VATICAN CITY (AP) - Prague Cardinal Miloslav Vlk, who ministered clandestinely to Catholics for years while officially working as a window-washer during communist rule i...
Reaction to the death of rock 'n' roll legend Chuck Berry

By The Associated Press
Mar 18, 2017 7:00 am - Reaction to the death of rock 'n' roll legend Chuck Berry at age 90: ___ "I am so sad to hear of Chuck Berry's passing. I want to thank him for all the inspirational mus...
Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, Caribbean poet, dies at 87

By GUY ELLIS and DAVID McFADDEN
Mar 17, 2017 7:00 am - CASTRIES, St. Lucia (AP) - Derek Walcott, a Nobel prize-winning poet known for capturing the essence of his native Caribbean, died Friday on the island of St. Lucia. He ...

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