Obituaries
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Former Liverpool captain and coach Ronnie Moran dies at 83
Mar 22, 2017 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Ronnie Moran, a former Liverpool captain whose later coaching prowess helped the club dominate European and English soccer in the 1970s and 80s, has died. ...
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Colin Dexter, creator of Inspector Morse, dies at 86
Mar 21, 2017 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Colin Dexter, the unassuming British writer who created curmudgeonly, music-loving Oxford detective Inspector Morse, has died aged 86. Publisher Pan Macmil...
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The Latest: McGuinness' coffin carried through streets
Mar 21, 2017 7:00 am - DUBLIN (AP) - The Latest on the death of former IRA commander and former Deputy First Minister in Northern Ireland Martin McGuinness (all times local): 5:40 p.m. The bod...
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Martin McGuinness, IRA leader turned peacemaker, dies at 66
Mar 21, 2017 7:00 am - DUBLIN (AP) - Martin McGuinness took up arms to fight British soldiers in the streets but ended up shaking hands with Queen Elizabeth II. A militant who long sought to u...
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Robert Silvers, edited New York Review of Books, dead at 87
Mar 20, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Robert B. Silvers, the exacting and perpetual editor of The New York Review of Books who responded to private groaning over the state of criticism and he...
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Guardian of Rockefeller fortune, philanthropy dies at 101
Mar 20, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - David Rockefeller was the last of his generation in a famous American family that taught its children that wealth brings great responsibility. Even as ch...
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Jimmy Breslin, chronicler of wise guys and underdogs, dies
Mar 19, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Jimmy Breslin scored one of his best-remembered interviews with President John F. Kennedy's grave-digger and once drove straight into a riot where he was...
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A talk with Jimmy Breslin, New York's "New Yorkiest" writer
Mar 19, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - In May 2002, Associated Press National Writer Jerry Schwartz interviewed the famously blunt-yet-lyric author and columnist Jimmy Breslin about his life a...
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Chuck Berry's influence on rock 'n roll was incalculable
Mar 19, 2017 7:00 am - Rock n' roll was more than a new kind of music, but a new story to tell, one for kids with transistor radios in their hands and money in their pockets, beginning to rais...
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Rock 'n' roll legend Chuck Berry dies at 90
Mar 18, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Chuck Berry, rock 'n' roll's founding guitar hero and storyteller who defined the music's joy and rebellion in such classics as "Johnny B. Goode," ''Swee...