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Prominent black journalist, publisher George Curry has died

By BEN NUCKOLS
Aug 21, 2016 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - George E. Curry, a journalist, civil rights activist and publisher whose syndicated column ran in hundreds of black-owned newspapers around the United ...
Founding guitarist of 3 Doors Down Matt Roberts dies

The Associated Press
Aug 21, 2016 7:00 am - WEST BEND, Wis. (AP) - Guitarist Matt Roberts, a founding member of the rock band 3 Doors Down, has died in Wisconsin. The 38-year-old was in West Bend to perform at a b...
Italian soprano Daniela Dessi dies at 59 after brief illness

The Associated Press
Aug 21, 2016 7:00 am - MILAN (AP) - Italy's La Scala opera house says soprano Daniela Dessi has died. She was 59. Last month, Dessi wrote to her fans on Facebook saying she had to cancel all h...
British comic actor, mental health campaigner Brian Rix dies

The Associated Press
Aug 20, 2016 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - A British charity says Brian Rix, a comic actor who used his fame to draw attention to the struggles of people with learning disabilities, has died. He was...
British comic actor, mental health campaigner Brian Rix dies

The Associated Press
Aug 20, 2016 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Brian Rix, a comic actor who used his fame to draw attention to the struggles of people with learning disabilities, died Saturday, a British charity said. ...
Prize-winning author Joyce Carol Thomas dead at 78

The Associated Press
Aug 20, 2016 7:00 am - STANFORD, Calif. (AP) - Joyce Carol Thomas, a prize-winning children's author and champion of multiculturalism, has died. She was 78. Thomas died Aug. 13 at Stanford Uni...
Former chairman of joint chiefs Gen. John Vessey dies at 94

By STEVE KARNOWSKI
Aug 19, 2016 7:00 am - MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Retired Army Gen. John W. Vessey, who rose through the ranks in a 46-year military career to become chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and help ove...
Former Travelers CEO Jay Fishman dies at 63 after ALS battle

By PAT EATON-ROBB
Aug 19, 2016 7:00 am - HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Former Travelers Group insurance company chief executive Jay Fishman, who became a national advocate for research into Lou Gehrig's disease after ...
Jack Riley, Mr. Carlin on 'The Bob Newhart Show,' dies at 80

The Associated Press
Aug 19, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Jack Riley, who played a counseling client on "The Bob Newhart Show" and also voiced a character on Nickelodeon's animated "Rugrats," died Friday. The 80...
Prominent German historian Ernst Nolte dies at 93

The Associated Press
Aug 18, 2016 7:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - Ernst Nolte, a German historian who set off a dispute among his peers by arguing three decades ago that Nazism was a reaction to an "existential threat" to...

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