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US-based actor Jan Triska dies after fall from Prague bridge

The Associated Press
Sep 25, 2017 7:00 am - PRAGUE (AP) - Jan Triska, an actor who moved to the U.S. after being banned by the Czechoslovak Communist regime, has died, more than a day after he fell from Prague's i...
Soul singer Charles Bradley dead at 68

By The Associated Press
Sep 23, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Charles Bradley, known as the "Screaming Eagle of Soul" for a powerful, raspy style that evoked one of his musical heroes, James Brown, died Saturday at ...
Former leader of Muslim Brotherhood Mahdi Akef dies at 89

By MAGGIE MICHAEL
Sep 22, 2017 7:00 am - CAIRO (AP) - Former leader of Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group Mahdi Akef, who had been detained since 2013, has died of complications from cancer and other hea...
Bernie Casey, pro football player turned actor, dies

By LINDSEY BAHR
Sep 21, 2017 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Bernie Casey, a professional football player turned poet, painter and actor known for parts in films such as "Revenge of the Nerds" and "I'm Gonna Git...
L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt dies at age 94

By SYLVIE CORBET
Sep 21, 2017 7:00 am - PARIS (AP) - Liliane Bettencourt, the L'Oreal cosmetics heiress and the world's richest woman, has died at her home in a chic Parisian suburb. She was 94. Bettencourt's ...
Sports car owner-driver Bruce Leven dies at 79

The Associated Press
Sep 21, 2017 7:00 am - SEATTLE (AP) - Bruce Leven, a self-made businessman whose sports car race teams won the Twelve Hours of Sebring three times in the 1980s, has died at 79. Leven died Sept...
Lillian Ross, longtime New Yorker writer, dead at 99

By HILLEL ITALIE
Sep 20, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Lillian Ross, the ever-watchful New Yorker reporter whose close narrative style defined a memorable and influential 70-year career, including a revealing...
Allman Brothers producer Johnny Sandlin dead at 72

The Associated Press
Sep 20, 2017 7:00 am - DECATUR, Ala. (AP) - An Alabama musician and recording engineer who produced songs for groups including the Allman Brothers Band has died. A funeral home obituary says J...
Jake LaMotta, boxer who inspired 'Raging Bull,' dies at 95

By TIM DAHLBERG
Sep 20, 2017 7:00 am - Jake LaMotta, an iron-fisted battler who brawled his way to a middleweight title and was later memorialized by Robert De Niro in the film "Raging Bull," has died. He was...
Stanislav Petrov, who averted nuclear war, dies at 77

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Sep 19, 2017 7:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - Stanislav Petrov, a former Soviet military officer known in the West as "the man who saved the world" for his role in averting a nuclear war over a false m...

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