Obituaries
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Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Cady dies unexpectedly
Nov 16, 2019 6:00 am - DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Mark Cady, the soft-spoken chief justice of the Iowa Supreme Court who wrote key decisions on gay marriage and abortion access that rankled socia...
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'œSchindler's List'ť producer Branko Lustig dies at 87
Nov 14, 2019 6:00 am - ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) - Branko Lustig, an Oscar-winning Croatian film producer and Holocaust survivor, died Thursday. He was 87. The Yad Vashem center in Jerusalem said L...
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Tour de France '~eternal runner-up' Poulidor dies at 83
Nov 13, 2019 6:00 am - BRUSSELS (AP) - Raymond Poulidor, the 'œeternal runner-up'ť whose repeated failure to win the Tour de France helped him conquer French hearts and become the country's al...
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Longtime AP sports writer, editor Ben Olan dies at 96
Nov 11, 2019 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Ben Olan, a sports writer and editor at The Associated Press for more than 50 years who was honored by the NHL Hall of Fame, has died. He was 96. Known f...
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Former Spartan, NFL receiver Charles Rogers dies at age 38
Nov 11, 2019 6:00 am - DETROIT (AP) - Former Michigan State star and Detroit Lions receiver Charles Rogers has died at the age of 38. A woman who identified herself as Cathy Rogers, his mother...
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Beatles album cover photographer Robert Freeman dies at 82
Nov 09, 2019 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Photographer Robert Freeman, who helped define the image of The Beatles with some of the band's best-known album covers, has died aged 82. A statement on T...
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Leading intellectual in Benin, Albert Tevoedjre, dies at 89
Nov 06, 2019 6:00 am - COTONOU, Benin (AP) - Albert Tevoedjre, a Benin political scientist and one of former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's most trusted experts on social and economic dev...
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Canadian Olympic basketball star Eli Pasquale dies at 59
Nov 05, 2019 6:00 am - TORONTO (AP) - Canadian Olympic basketball star Eli Pasquale has died at 59. Canada Basketball says in a statement he died Monday of cancer. Pasquale led Canada to a fou...
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Acclaimed novelist Ernest Gaines dies at 86
Nov 05, 2019 6:00 am - NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Novelist Ernest J. Gaines, whose poor childhood on a small Louisiana plantation germinated stories of black struggles that grew into universal tales o...
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Black man who led neo-Nazi group dies amid bid to destroy it
Nov 04, 2019 6:00 am - A black activist who took control of one of the nation's largest neo-Nazi groups - and vowed to dismantle it - has died amid a legal fight over who would lead the group....