Obituaries
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Longtime Iowa sportscaster Bob Brooks dies at age 89
Jun 26, 2016 7:00 am - CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - Longtime Iowa sports broadcaster Bob Brooks, who spent his more than seven-decade career covering everything from high school games to Hawkeyes...
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Former Temple hoops star Hal Lear dies at 81
Jun 26, 2016 7:00 am - WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - Hal Lear, the sweet-shooting guard who starred for the Temple Owls in the 1950s and still holds the school record for points in a season, has d...
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Bernie Worrell, masterful P-Funk keyboardist, dead at 72
Jun 25, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Bernie Worrell, the ingenious "Wizard of Woo" whose amazing array of keyboard sounds and textures helped define the Parliament-Funkadelic musical empire ...
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Bill Cunningham, NY Times fashion photographer, dies at 87
Jun 25, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Bill Cunningham, a longtime fashion photographer for The New York Times known for taking pictures of everyday people on the streets of New York, has died...
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Michael Herr, author of the Vietnam-era 'Dispatches,' dies
Jun 25, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Michael Herr, the author and Oscar-nominated screenplay writer who viscerally documented the ravages of the Vietnam War through his classic nonfiction no...
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Bernie Worrell, masterful P-Funk keyboardist, dead at 72
Jun 24, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Bernie Worrell, the ingenious "Wizard of Woo" whose amazing array of keyboard sounds and textures helped define the Parliament-Funkadelic musical empire ...
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Son of iconic basketball coach Adolph Rupp dies at 75
Jun 24, 2016 7:00 am - LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Adolph "Herky" Rupp Jr., the son of iconic University of Kentucky basketball coach Adolph Rupp, has died. He was 75. Milward funeral home in Lexing...
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Bluegrass music patriarch Ralph Stanley dies at 89
Jun 24, 2016 7:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Ralph Stanley, a patriarch of Appalachian music who with his brother Carter helped expand and popularize the genre that became known as bluegrass...
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Longtime Ohio newspaper publisher John F. Wolfe dies at 72
Jun 24, 2016 7:00 am - COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Longtime Ohio newspaper publisher John F. Wolfe, whose family sold The Columbus Dispatch last year and still owns television and radio stations, ha...
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Michael Herr, author of the Vietnam-era 'Dispatches,' dies
Jun 24, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Michael Herr, the author and Oscar-nominated screenplay writer who viscerally documented the ravages of the Vietnam War through his classic nonfiction no...