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Rap pioneer Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest dies at 45

By MESFIN FEKADU
Mar 23, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Phife Dawg, a masterful lyricist whose witty wordplay was a linchpin of the groundbreaking hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, died Tuesday from complica...
Infamous ex-Toronto mayor Rob Ford dies after cancer fight

By ROB GILLIES
Mar 22, 2016 7:00 am - TORONTO (AP) - Knocking over a grandmother while rushing to the defense of his brother, who was insulting spectators in the City Council chamber. Threatening "murder" in...
Veteran actress Rita Gam dies at age 88

The Associated Press
Mar 22, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Rita Gam, who had a lengthy acting career on film, television and stage, has died. Publicist Nancy Willen says the actress died in Los Angeles of resp...
Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford dies after fighting cancer

By ROB GILLIES
Mar 22, 2016 7:00 am - TORONTO (AP) - Rob Ford, the pugnacious, populist former mayor of Toronto whose career crashed in a drug-driven, obscenity-laced debacle, died Tuesday after fighting can...
Schwab: Worked as transplant advocate after basketball

The Associated Press
Mar 21, 2016 7:00 am - MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A former Marquette men's basketball assistant who later worked as an advocate for the University of Wisconsin organ donor program has died, 12 years...
Ex-Intel CEO Andy Grove dies at age 79

The Associated Press
Mar 21, 2016 7:00 am - SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) - Andy Grove, the former Intel Corp. chief executive whose youth under Nazi occupation and escape from the Iron Curtain inspired an "only the pa...
Anker Joergensen, Danish former prime minister, dies at 93

By JAN M. OLSEN
Mar 20, 2016 7:00 am - COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Anker Joergensen, a former prime minister loved by many Danes for his down-to-earth character but criticized for his handling of economic prob...
Czech filmmaker Jan Nemec dies at 79

The Associated Press
Mar 19, 2016 7:00 am - PRAGUE (AP) - Film director Jan Nemec, a representative of the new wave of Czechoslovak cinema in the 1960s, has died. He was 79. Czech public television, citing his wif...
Ravens CB Tray Walker dies of dirt bike crash injuries

By DAVID GINSBURG
Mar 18, 2016 7:00 am - BALTIMORE (AP) - Baltimore Ravens cornerback Tray Walker, who played one season in the NFL, died Friday of injuries from a dirt bike crash in Miami. His godmother confir...
'Rockford Files' star Joe Santos dies at 84

The Associated Press
Mar 18, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Joe Santos, who played Lieutenant Dennis Becker on "The Rockford Files," has died at 84. Santos died Friday in Santa Monica, California, after a heart at...

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