Obituaries
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Ex-Kosovo PM Bajram Rexhepi dies after a stroke at 63
Aug 21, 2017 7:00 am - PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) - Bajram Rexhepi, Kosovo's former prime minister and interior minister, has died in a hospital in Turkey following a stroke. He was 63. Prime Minis...
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Legendary comedian Jerry Lewis knew how to laugh and cry
Aug 21, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Jerry Lewis sometimes didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "There's nothing more dramatic than the comedy I've done," Lewis, who died Sunday at age 91, t...
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Rockabilly pioneer Sonny Burgess dies in Arkansas at 88
Aug 21, 2017 7:00 am - NEWPORT, Ark. (AP) - Albert "Sonny" Burgess, who was an early pioneer of what became known as rockabilly music, has died in his native Arkansas. The Dillinger Funeral Ho...
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Jerry Lewis, Hollywood survivor, showman, dies at 91
Aug 21, 2017 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jerry Lewis epitomized what it meant to be a survivor in Hollywood. Through ups and downs in popularity, health troubles and weight fluctuations and t...
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Comedian, civil rights activist Dick Gregory dies at 84
Aug 20, 2017 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Dick Gregory, the comedian and activist and who broke racial barriers in the 1960s and used his humor to spread messages of social justice and nutriti...
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Jerry Lewis, comedy icon and telethon host dies, at 91
Aug 20, 2017 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES - Jerry Lewis, the manic, rubber-faced showman who jumped and hollered to fame in a lucrative partnership with Dean Martin, settled down to become a self-con...
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Comedians, stars react to death of Jerry Lewis
Aug 20, 2017 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Reaction to the death of comedy legend Jerry Lewis: "That fool was no dummy. Jerry Lewis was an undeniable genius an unfathomable blessing, comedy's a...
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Jerry Lewis, comedy icon and telethon host, dies at 91
Aug 20, 2017 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jerry Lewis, the manic, rubber-faced showman who jumped and hollered to fame in a lucrative partnership with Dean Martin, settled down to become a sel...
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The Latest: France pays homage to 'laughter genius' Lewis
Aug 20, 2017 7:00 am - LAS VEGAS (AP) - The Latest on the death of comedian and filmmaker Jerry Lewis (all times local): 4:45 p.m. France's culture minister is paying homage to the "laughter g...
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Prize-winning Polish-US playwright Janusz Glowacki dies
Aug 19, 2017 7:00 am - WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Renowned Polish-U.S. playwright and screenwriter Janusz Glowacki, who won top prizes for his bitter, ironic analysis of the difficult lives of immi...