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Larry Kramer used voice, pen to raise consciousness on AIDS

By MARK KENNEDY
May 27, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Time never softened the urgency of Larry Kramer's demands. Theatergoers leaving a celebrated revival of Kramer's 'œThe Normal Heart'ť in 2011 were greete...
Reaction to the death of AIDS activist, writer Larry Kramer

By The Associated Press
May 27, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Reaction to the death of Larry Kramer, the AIDS activist and playwright who turned his fury into mass protests and helped raise the profile of the diseas...
Robb Forman Dew, prize-winning novelist, dead at 73

The Associated Press
May 27, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Robb Forman Dew, a prize-winning fiction writer who drew upon her small-town Ohio background for such novels as 'œDale Loves Sophie to Death'ť and 'œThe ...
Larry Kramer, playwright and AIDS activist, dies at 84

By MARK KENNEDY
May 27, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Larry Kramer, the playwright whose angry voice and pen raised theatergoers' consciousness about AIDS and roused thousands to militant protests in the ear...
Stanley Ho, who built Macao's gambling industry, dies at 98

By ZEN SOO and KELVIN CHAN
May 26, 2020 7:00 am - HONG KONG (AP) - Casino tycoon Stanley Ho, whose business empire dominated the Portuguese gambling enclave of Macao for decades, died Tuesday in Hong Kong at age 98. Con...
Jimmy Cobb, 'Kind of Blue' drummer for Miles Davis, dies

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS
May 26, 2020 7:00 am - Jimmy Cobb, a percussionist and the last surviving member of Miles Davis' 1959 'œKind of Blue'ť groundbreaking jazz album which transformed the genre and sparked several...
'Visionary' Elk Grove parks leader Jack Claes dies at 96

By Kevin Schmit
May 26, 2020 1:00 am - Jack Claes grew up in New Jersey, captivated by views of the Manhattan skyline and Palisades Amusement Park. A lifetime was born in those moments. The first park distric...
William Small, 'hero to journalism' at CBS, NBC, dies at 93

By JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK
May 25, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Longtime broadcast news executive William J. Small, who led CBS News' Washington coverage during the civil rights movement, Vietnam War and Watergate and...
Former Brazil women's soccer coach Alvarez dies at 63

By MAURICIO SAVARESE
May 25, 2020 7:00 am - SAO PAULO (AP) - Oswaldo Alvarez, who coached Brazil at the last two Women's World Cups, died in a Sao Paulo hospital on Monday. He was 63. Alvarez recently said he was ...
Eddie Sutton, Hall of Fame basketball coach, dies at 84

By CLIFF BRUNT
May 24, 2020 7:00 am - Eddie Sutton waited so long to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He couldn't hang on long enough to make it to the ceremony. The man who l...

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