Obituaries
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Barbara Bush brought plainspoken, grandmotherly style to DC
Apr 18, 2018 7:00 am - HOUSTON (AP) - Barbara Bush didn't hesitate to tell people that her trademark pearl necklaces were fake. Americans liked that everything else about the snowy-haired firs...
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Reaction to the death of former first lady Barbara Bush
Apr 18, 2018 7:00 am - Here is some reaction to the death of former first lady Barbara Bush, whom a family spokesman says died Tuesday: "My dear mother has passed on at age 92. Laura, Barbara,...
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Professional wrestling great Bruno Sammartino dies at 82
Apr 18, 2018 7:00 am - He was professional wrestling's ultimate good guy. The son of Italian immigrants, Bruno Sammartino fled the Nazis as a child and built a career beating a string of bad g...
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Newscaster Carl Kasell of NPR's 'Morning Edition' dies at 84
Apr 17, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Newscaster Carl Kasell, a signature voice of NPR who brought his gravitas to "Morning Edition" and later his wit to "Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" has d...
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Former first lady Barbara Bush dies at age 92
Apr 17, 2018 7:00 am - HOUSTON (AP) - Barbara Bush, the snowy-haired first lady and mother of a president whose plainspoken manner and utter lack of pretense made her more popular at times tha...
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The Latest: Trump orders flags flown at half-staff
Apr 17, 2018 7:00 am - HOUSTON (AP) - The Latest on the death of former first lady Barbara Bush (all times local): 10 p.m. President Donald Trump is ordering U.S. flags to be flown at half-sta...
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Poet-publisher-activist Sam Hamill dies at age 74
Apr 17, 2018 7:00 am - PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. (AP) - Sam Hamill, a poet, translator and anti-war activist who as co-founder of Copper Canyon Press published works by Pablo Neruda, W.S. Merwin an...
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Barbara Bush brought plainspoken, grandmotherly style to DC
Apr 17, 2018 7:00 am - HOUSTON (AP) - Barbara Bush didn't hesitate to tell people that her trademark pearl necklaces were fake. Americans liked that everything else about the snowy-haired firs...
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Richard Blystone, correspondent at AP, later CNN, dies at 81
Apr 17, 2018 7:00 am - Richard M. Blystone, a longtime Associated Press correspondent who covered the Vietnam War and went on to become one of the first journalists at the CNN network even bef...
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Former first lady Barbara Bush dies at age 92Apr 17, 2018 1:00 am - HOUSTON - Barbara Bush, the snowy-haired first lady whose plainspoken manner and utter lack of pretense made her more popular at times than her husband, President George...