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Longtime Memphis sports broadcaster George Lapides dies

The Associated Press
Jun 18, 2016 7:00 am - MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A funeral home says George Lapides, a longtime fixture in the Memphis sports scene as a newspaper reporter, broadcaster and team executive, has die...
Ronnie Claire Edwards, Corabeth on 'Waltons,' dies at 83

By LYNN ELBER
Jun 17, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ronnie Claire Edwards, who played grocer Ike Godsey's prickly wife, Corabeth, on "The Waltons," has died. She was 83. Edwards died at her Dallas home,...
Des Plaines police chief during Gacy investigation dies at 92

By Christopher Placek
Jun 17, 2016 1:00 am - Former Des Plaines Police Chief Lee Alfano, who led the department during the John Wayne Gacy investigation, died this week in Arizona, a friend said Friday. Alfano, 92,...
'I Know What You Did Last Summer' author Lois Duncan dies

By MORGAN LEE
Jun 16, 2016 7:00 am - SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Lois Duncan was perhaps best-known for her pioneering suspense novels that captivated more than one generation of young readers, including "I Know ...
Richard O. Linke, Andy Griffith's longtime manager, dies

The Associated Press
Jun 16, 2016 7:00 am - HONOLULU (AP) - Richard O. Linke, longtime personal manager for Andy Griffith and an associate producer of the TV series "The Andy Griffith Show," has died. He was 98. L...
Jo Cox remembered as tireless campaigner and aid worker

By KARL RITTER
Jun 16, 2016 7:00 am - Jo Cox fought against poverty and discrimination in developing countries, worked in Parliament for a solution to the civil war in Syria and campaigned for Britain to rem...
Ann Morgan Guilbert, Millie on 'Dick Van Dyke Show,' dies

By FRAZIER MOORE
Jun 15, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Ann Morgan Guilbert, beloved as the next-door neighbor on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and seen recently on CBS' comedy "Life in Pieces," has died. Guilbert ...
Bob Paine, ecologist who introduced 'keystone species,' dies

By PHUONG LE
Jun 14, 2016 7:00 am - SEATTLE (AP) - Robert "Bob" Paine, an influential ecologist best known for introducing the concept of "keystone species" and who nurtured a generation of scientists, has...
Gregory Rabassa, translator of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, dies

By HILLEL ITALIE
Jun 14, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Gregory Rabassa, a translator of worldwide influence and esteem who helped introduce Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julio Cortazar and other Latin American auth...
Elvis Presley producer Lincoln 'Chips' Moman dies at 79

By KRISTIN M. HALL
Jun 14, 2016 7:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Lincoln "Chips" Moman, a Memphis producer, musician and songwriter who helped Elvis Presley engineer a musical comeback in the late '60s and then...

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