Obituaries
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Mali opposition leader Cissé dies after contracting COVID-19
Dec 25, 2020 6:00 am - BAMAKO, Mali (AP) - Soumaila Cissé, Mali's main opposition leader who was held hostage for six months earlier this year by jihadis and was considered a leading contende...
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Leslie West, guitarist of rock band Mountain, has died at 75
Dec 24, 2020 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Leslie West, an iconic guitarist-vocalist who was behind several '70s rock anthems including 'œMississippi Queen'ť with the popular band Mountain, has...
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British model, fashion muse Stella Tennant dies at 50
Dec 23, 2020 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Stella Tennant, the aristocratic British model who was a muse to designers such as Karl Lagerfeld and Gianni Versace, died suddenly at the age of 50, her f...
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Tony-nominated Broadway star Rebecca Luker dies at 59
Dec 23, 2020 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Soprano Rebecca Luker, a three-time Tony nominated actor who starred in some of the biggest Broadway hits of the past three decades, died Wednesday. S...
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Classic car enthusiast's life 'not bad for a guy from Buffalo'Dec 22, 2020 4:30 am - A force and a character, my father-in-law, Paul TerHorst, died Friday at age 85, with Daughter No. 1 (Cheryl) and Daughter No. 2 (Karen) holding his hands while Daughter...
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Chicago-area man who helped inspire Special Olympics dies
Dec 21, 2020 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Michael 'œMoose'ť Cusack, a Chicago-area man who helped inspire the Special Olympics movement and who won multiple medals at the athletic event over years...
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K.T. Oslin, country singer of '~80's Ladies,' dies at 78
Dec 21, 2020 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Country singer K.T. Oslin, who hit it big with the 1987 hit 'œ80'²s Ladies'ť and won three Grammy awards, has died. She was 78. Oslin's friend Robert...
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Ezra Vogel, renowned Asia scholar and biographer, dies at 90
Dec 21, 2020 6:00 am - CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - A leading U.S. scholar on East Asia whose biography of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping won acclaim and awards has died. Ezra F. Vogel was 90. Vogel ...
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Ex-Tuskegee Airman Alfred Thomas Farrar dies at age 99
Dec 20, 2020 6:00 am - LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) - Alfred Thomas Farrar, a former Tuskegee Airman, died on Thursday in Virginia only days before a ceremony planned to honor his service in the progra...
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Longtime Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Abrahamson dies
Dec 20, 2020 6:00 am - MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Shirley Abrahamson, the longest-serving Wisconsin Supreme Court justice in state history and the first woman to serve on the high court, has died. S...