Obituaries
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SD mailman honored for assisting injured womanDec 24, 2014 10:00 pm - LETCHER, S.D. (AP) - Usually a letter carrier brings the mail, but to Norma Fristad earlier this year, it was an angel who made the delivery. Fristad, now 88, fell and b...
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Surgery opens eyelids of 2-year-old from AfricaDec 24, 2014 10:00 pm - FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - When little Nora came to Fort Wayne in October, she could barely see. The 2-year-old from the Ivory Coast was born with closed eyelids, a conditi...
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Text of pope's Christmas Day messageDec 24, 2014 10:00 pm - VATICAN CITY (AP) - Here is the official Vatican English-language translation of Pope Francis' "Urbi et Orbi' Christmas Day message, which he delivered in Italian from t...
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Top Canadian criminal lawyer Greenspan has diedDec 23, 2014 10:00 pm - TORONTO (AP) - Edward Greenspan, one of Canada's most prominent criminal lawyers, was remembered Wednesday as a force to be reckoned with by many in the legal community ...
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Omaha fire victim died at hospital, officials sayDec 23, 2014 10:00 pm - OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - One of two people pulled by Omaha firefighters from the basement of a burning boarding house has died. The Omaha Fire Department says the woman died T...
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Former state Rep. Alphonse Jackson dead at 87Dec 23, 2014 10:00 pm - BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Former state Rep. Alphonse Jackson, a civil rights activist and charter member of the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus, has died. Jackson died ...
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Owen Johnson, longtime NY state senator, diesDec 23, 2014 10:00 pm - ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A former New York state senator who represented Long Island for 40 years has died. Owen Johnson died early Wednesday at his home in West Bablyon. He ...
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Inscription links Vanderbilts to Lillian's ListDec 23, 2014 10:00 pm - RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A simple inscription written in 1900 in a Bible discovered earlier this year carries with it much of the history of progressive politics in western ...
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New Jersey Democratic powerbroker Ray Durkin diesDec 23, 2014 10:00 pm - TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A longtime New Jersey Democratic powerbroker who helped elect the state's first black member of Congress has died. Raymond Durkin was 78. Durkin die...
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Oldest verified man in US dies at 110Dec 23, 2014 10:00 pm - ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) - A northern Illinois resident recognized as the oldest man in the U.S. has died at 110. The Rockford Register Star (http://bit.ly/1JQe1am ) reports ...