Obituaries
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Poet laureate Philip Levine dies at age 87Feb 14, 2015 10:00 pm - FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Philip Levine, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose intimate portraits of blue-collar life were grounded in personal experience and political consci...
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Former NHL defenseman Steve Montador dies at 35Feb 14, 2015 10:00 pm - CHICAGO (AP) - Former NHL defenseman Steve Montador was remembered Sunday for being a solid teammate and for his work with the players' union. Montador was found unconsc...
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Notable deaths last weekFeb 14, 2015 12:00 am - • Gary Owens, the droll, mellifluous-voiced announcer on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" and a familiar part of radio, TV and movies for more than six decades, has died. He ...
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Michele Ferrero, maker of Nutella, dies on Valentine's DayFeb 13, 2015 10:00 pm - ROME (AP) - Michele Ferrero, the world's richest candy maker whose Nutella chocolate and hazlenut spread helped raise generations of Europeans and defined Italian sweets...
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NYT columnist David Carr dies at 58Feb 13, 2015 12:00 am - NEW YORK - Media columnist David Carr, who wrote the Media Equation column for The New York Times and penned a memoir about his fight with drug addiction, collapsed at h...
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Los Angeles television news pioneer Stan Chambers dies at 91Feb 12, 2015 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles television news pioneer Stan Chambers, who had a front-row seat to earthquakes, fires and the life of the city since the 1940s, died Frida...
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'Laugh-In' announcer, voiceover vet Gary Owens dies at 80Feb 12, 2015 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gary Owens, the droll, mellifluous-voiced announcer on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" and a familiar part of radio, TV and movies for more than six decad...
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British New Romantic icon Steve Strange dies at 55Feb 12, 2015 10:00 pm - LONDON (AP) - Steve Strange, a singer with the British band Visage and one of the founders of the 1980s' New Romantic style, has died at age 55. August Day Recordings, S...
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Rhonda Glenn, broadcaster and golf historian, diesFeb 12, 2015 10:00 pm - Rhonda Glenn, the first female anchor on ESPN who became a USGA historian and tireless promoter of women's golf, died after a long illness. She was 68. Barbara Romack, a...
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Arlington Heights doctor defied odds his whole lifeFeb 12, 2015 12:00 am - Throughout his life, Dr. Oswald Olivier defied the odds. Not only did he escape his native Haiti during the reign of Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, but he also attended ...