Obituaries
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'Lady Chatterley' lawyer Jeremy Hutchinson dies at 102
Nov 14, 2017 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Lawyer Jeremy Hutchinson, a towering legal figure who helped liberalize British laws around sex and freedom of expression, has died. He was 102. Hutchinson...
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French downhill skier David Poisson dies in training crash
Nov 13, 2017 6:00 am - PARIS (AP) - French downhill skier David Poisson, a former medalist at the world championships, died on Monday following a training crash in Canada. He was 35. The Frenc...
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Former Old Dominion coach Jeff Capel Jr. dies of ALS
Nov 13, 2017 6:00 am - FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Former Old Dominion and Fayetteville State coach Jeff Capel Jr. has died, less than two years after being diagnosed with ALS. Fayetteville Stat...
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Liz Smith, syndicated gossip columnist, dies at 94
Nov 12, 2017 6:00 am - Liz Smith, the syndicated gossip columnist whose mixture of banter, barbs, and bon mots about the glitterati helped her climb the A-list as high as many of the celebriti...
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San Francisco's first Chinese-American police officer dies
Nov 11, 2017 6:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Herb Lee, San Francisco's first Chinese-American police officer, has died. He was 84. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Lee died Nov. 1 of co...
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Lou Gehrig biographer Ray Robinson dead at 96
Nov 10, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Ray Robinson, an author and magazine editor best known for a well-regarded biography of his childhood hero Lou Gehrig, has died. Robinson's friend Marty ...
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Karin Dor, would-be assassin in 'You Only Live Twice,' dies
Nov 09, 2017 6:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - German actress Karin Dor, who played an assassin sent by James Bond's nemesis Blofeld to kill the British agent in 1967's "You Only Live Twice," has died. ...
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Former AP Hawaii bureau chief Gordon Sakamoto dies at age 82
Nov 09, 2017 6:00 am - HONOLULU (AP) - Gordon Sakamoto, one of the first Asian-Americans hired to work in a U.S. bureau of an international news service, died Wednesday at 82. Sakamoto, a form...
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'Magnum, P.I.' actor John Hillerman dies at 84
Nov 09, 2017 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - John Hillerman, who played stuffed-shirt Higgins to Tom Selleck's freewheeling detective Thomas Magnum in the 1980s TV series "Magnum, P.I." has died,...
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Pebble Beach golf director RJ Harper dies of cancer at 61
Nov 08, 2017 6:00 am - PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) - R.J. Harper, who rose from a golf course marshal at Pebble Beach to head of golf operations at America's iconic golf resort, has died of panc...