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New Orleans political patriarch Moon Landrieu has died

By KEVIN McGILL
Sep 05, 2022 7:00 am - NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) - Former New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu - whose early, lonely stand against segregationists in the Louisiana legislature launched a political care...
Sterling Lord, uniquely enduring literary agent, dies at 102

By HILLEL ITALIE
Sep 04, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Sterling Lord, the uniquely enduring literary agent who worked for years to find a publisher for Jack Kerouac's 'œOn the Road'ť and over the following de...
Bed Bath & Beyond chief financial officer Gustavo Arnal dies

By The Associated Press
Sep 04, 2022 7:00 am - UNION, N.J. (AP) - Gustavo Arnal, the chief financial officer of retail chain Bed Bath & Beyond, has died, the company confirmed on Sunday. The company said Arnal died o...
Prominent Indian business leader Cyrus Mistry dies at 54

The Associated Press
Sep 04, 2022 7:00 am - NEW DELHI (AP) - Cyrus Mistry, an Indian-born Irish businessman and former chairman of Indian conglomerate Tata Sons, died in an accident on Sunday after his car crashed...
Earnie Shavers, one of boxing's hardest punchers, dies at 78

By The Associated Press
Sep 02, 2022 7:00 am - Earnie Shavers, whose thunderous punches stopped 68 fighters and earned him heavyweight title fights with Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes, has died. He was 78. Former Brit...
Barbara Ehrenreich, 'myth busting' writer and activist, dies

By The Associated Press
Sep 02, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Barbara Ehrenreich, the author, activist and self-described 'œmyth buster'ť who in such notable works as 'œNickel and Dimed'ť and 'œBait and Switch" chal...
German militants' lawyer and Greens gadfly dies at 83

The Associated Press
Aug 31, 2022 7:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - Hans-Christian Stroebele, a German lawyer who defended members of the far-left Red Army Faction and later became the Green party's first directly elected c...
Lee Thomas, architect of the 1993 Phillies, dies at 86

The Associated Press
Aug 31, 2022 7:00 am - PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Lee Thomas, an All-Star player who eventually became the architect of the 1993 NL champion Philadelphia Phillies, has died. He was 86. Thomas died We...
Mikhail Gorbachev, who steered Soviet breakup, dead at 91

By JIM HEINTZ
Aug 31, 2022 7:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the stat...
Gorbachev, who redirected course of 20th century, dies at 91

By JIM HEINTZ
Aug 30, 2022 7:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - Before Mikhail Gorbachev came along, the Soviet Union seemed an immovable superpower in perpetual antagonism to the United States. With a breathtaking seri...

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