Obituaries
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Bob Friend, pitched most innings for Pirates, dies at 88
Feb 03, 2019 6:00 am - PITTSBURGH (AP) - Bob Friend, who pitched more innings than anyone in Pittsburgh Pirates history, died Sunday. He was 88. The Pirates said Friend died at his home in Pit...
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Final Four ref, Denver radio pioneer Irv Brown dies at 83
Feb 03, 2019 6:00 am - DENVER (AP) - Irv Brown, the Final Four referee who also coached baseball at University of Colorado, did color commentary on ESPN's first college football broadcast and ...
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Ex-NFL QB, assistant coach Wade Wilson dies on 60th birthday
Feb 01, 2019 6:00 am - DALLAS (AP) - Wade Wilson, the quarterback who led the Minnesota Vikings to an NFC championship game and coached the position with the Dallas Cowboys for more than a dec...
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Country Music Hall of Fame guitarist Harold Bradley dies
Jan 31, 2019 6:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Country Music Hall of Fame guitarist Harold Bradley, who played on hundreds of hit country records including "Crazy," ''King of the Road" and "Cr...
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Longtime Canadian sportscaster Bob Picken dies at 86
Jan 31, 2019 6:00 am - WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) - Bob Picken, a decorated Canadian sportscaster whose career spanned more than five decades, has died. He died Wednesday at 86. Picken was the vo...
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Julius Campbell, of 'Remember the Titans' team, dies at 65
Jan 31, 2019 6:00 am - Julius Campbell Jr., a former Virginia high school football star depicted in the movie "Remember the Titans," has died. He was 65. Campbell died Jan. 25 of organ failure...
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James Ingram, Grammy-winning R&B singer, dead at 66
Jan 30, 2019 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - James Ingram, the Grammy-winning singer who launched multiple hits on the R&B and pop charts and earned two Oscar nominations for his songwriting, has di...
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SKoreans mourn death of wartime sex slave who fought Tokyo
Jan 30, 2019 6:00 am - SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A South Korean woman who was forced as a girl into a brothel and sexually enslaved by the Japanese military during World War II was mourned Wed...
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Longtime San Francisco Giants owner Peter Magowan dies
Jan 27, 2019 6:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Peter Magowan, the lifelong Giants fan who formed the ownership group that kept the team in San Francisco with a sparkling waterfront ballpark, died...
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Migrant who founded Indonesian business empire dies
Jan 26, 2019 6:00 am - JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Eka Tjipta Widjaja, patriarch of one of Asia's richest families and the founder of a sprawling Indonesian conglomerate, has died. He was 97. Wi...