Obituaries
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BYU All-American tight end Gordon Hudson dies at 59
Oct 07, 2021 7:00 am - PROVO, Utah (AP) - Gordon Hudson, an All-American tight end for BYU and a college football hall of famer, died Sept. 27. He was 59. He died in San Jose, California, the ...
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Robert Altman, 1960s counterculture photographer, dies at 76
Oct 05, 2021 7:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Robert Altman, a photojournalist who captured San Francisco's burgeoning counterculture of the 1960s and became chief staff photographer at Rolling ...
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Alan Kalter, announcer for David Letterman, dies at 78
Oct 05, 2021 7:00 am - STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - Alan Kalter, the quirky, red-headed announcer for David Letterman for two decades who frequently appeared in the show's comedy bits, has died. He ...
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Michael Renzi, former 'Sesame Street' musical director, dies
Oct 04, 2021 7:00 am - NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) - Michael Renzi, who during a storied musical career worked with Peggy Lee, Mel Tormé, Lena Horne and some of the other biggest names in jazz and pop...
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Ex-US Rep. Todd Akin, sunk by '~legitimate rape' remark, dies
Oct 04, 2021 7:00 am - Former U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, a conservative Missouri Republican whose comment that women's bodies have a way of avoiding pregnancies in cases of 'œlegitimate rape'ť sunk ...
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Swedish artist threatened for Muhammad sketch dies in crash
Oct 04, 2021 7:00 am - STOCKHOLM (AP) - Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who had lived under police protection since making a sketch of the Prophet Muhammad with a dog's body in 2007, died in a week...
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Former Marseille president, businessman Bernard Tapie dies
Oct 03, 2021 7:00 am - PARIS (AP) - Bernard Tapie, a flamboyant businessman who was beloved by sports fans for leading French soccer club Marseille to glory but also dogged by legal battles an...
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Transformative St. Viator principal dies at 91Oct 01, 2021 1:00 am - Former St. Viator High School Principal Donald Houde died Wednesday at 91, the high school announced in a news release. Houde served from 1972 to 1979. His tenure as the...
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Remembering a relentless publicist, never too proud to beg
Sep 30, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Some 15 years ago, while working on a story about the New York Post's famous Page Six column, I needed some perspective on the gossip industry. So I soug...
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George Frayne, aka rock star Commander Cody, dead at 77
Sep 29, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - George Frayne, who as leader of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen enjoyed a cult following in the 1970s with such party and concert favorites as ...