Obituaries
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Softball great Joan Joyce, fanned Ted Williams, dies at 81
Mar 27, 2022 7:00 am - BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - Florida Atlantic softball coach Joan Joyce, the only coach in the program's 28-year history whose numerous claims to fame included once striking ...
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Country music singer Jeff Carson dies in Tennessee
Mar 27, 2022 7:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Country music singer and songwriter Jeff Carson, who scored hits with 'œNot On Your Love,'ť and 'œThe Car'ť before becoming a police officer, has...
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Joe Williams, coached Jacksonville to NCAA title game, dies
Mar 26, 2022 7:00 am - Joe Williams, who coached Artis Gilmore and tiny Jacksonville University to the 1970 NCAA Tournament championship game against mighty UCLA, died Saturday. He was 88. Wil...
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Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins dead at 50
Mar 26, 2022 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Taylor Hawkins, for 25 years the drummer for Foo Fighters and best friend of frontman Dave Grohl, has died during a South American tour with the rock ...
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Dagny Carlsson, centenarian blogger, dies at age 109
Mar 25, 2022 7:00 am - STOCKHOLM (AP) - Dagny Carlsson, dubbed the world's oldest blogger, who wrote about her life in Sweden based on the attitude that you should never think you are too old ...
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Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins dead at 50
Mar 25, 2022 1:00 am - LOS ANGELES - Taylor Hawkins, the longtime drummer for the rock band Foo Fighters, has died. He was 50. There were no immediate details about how Hawkins died, though th...
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Stephen Wilhite, inventor of the meme-favorite GIF, has died
Mar 24, 2022 7:00 am - Stephen Wilhite, the inventor of the internet-popular short-video format, the GIF, has died. He was 74. His wife, Kathaleen, said Thursday in a phone interview that he d...
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Ned Johnson, who made Fidelity a fund titan, dies at 91
Mar 24, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Edward 'œNed'ť Johnson III, a businessman who grew Fidelity Investments into the financial giant it is today, has died. He was 91. Johnson's family confi...
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Albright fled the Nazis, climbed to the summit of diplomacy
Mar 24, 2022 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Madeleine Albright fled the Nazis as a child and climbed to the summit of diplomacy and foreign policy in the United States, breaking the glass ceiling...
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Madeleine Albright, 1st female US secretary of state, dies
Mar 23, 2022 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Madeleine Albright, a child refugee from Nazi- and then Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe who rose to become the first female secretary of state and a me...