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Kevin Curran, longtime writer for 'The Simpsons,' dies at 59

By The Associated Press
Oct 25, 2016 7:00 am - A comedy writer and producer who spent 15 years on "The Simpsons" has died in Los Angeles after a long illness. Kevin Curran was 59. Spokeswoman Antonia Coffman says Cur...
Oscar-nominated costume designer Janet Patterson has died

By LINDSEY BAHR
Oct 25, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Costume designer Janet Patterson, a four-time Oscar nominee for period films like "Bright Star," ''The Portrait of a Lady" and "The Piano," has died. ...
Tom Hayden, '60s activist and liberal statesman, dead at 76

By JOHN ROGERS and LINDA DEUTSCH
Oct 24, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - In one of the most dramatic personal transformations in American political history, Tom Hayden went from being a famed 1960s and 1970s student radical...
Christian cartoon tract creator Jack Chick dies at 92

By ROBERT JABLON
Oct 24, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jack T. Chick, whose cartoon tracts preached fundamentalist Christianity while vilifying secular society, evolution, homosexuality, and the beliefs of...
Former Uruguayan President Jorge Batlle dies at 88

By LEONARDO HABERKORN
Oct 24, 2016 7:00 am - MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) - Former President Jorge Batlle, an extroverted and irreverent politician who was a force in Uruguayan politics for half a century and led it du...
1960s pop singer Bobby Vee has died at age 73

By JEFF BAENEN
Oct 24, 2016 7:00 am - MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Pop idol Bobby Vee, the boyish, grinning 1960s singer whose career was born when he took a Midwestern stage as a teenager to fill in after the 1959 pl...
Through his life, Tom Hayden dedicated to changing the world

By LINDA DEUTSCH and TAREK HAMADA
Oct 24, 2016 7:00 am - SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - During more than 50 years in the public eye, Tom Hayden went from firebrand college liberal to mainstream politician to elder political state...
Chicago DJ Herb Kent dies after 7-decade career in radio

The Associated Press
Oct 23, 2016 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - One of Chicago's earliest African-American disc jockeys, Herb Kent, has died at age 88 after a seven-decade career. The radio station where Kent worked, i...
Sheikh Khalifa, deposed former ruler of Qatar, dies at 84

By ADAM SCHRECK
Oct 23, 2016 7:00 am - Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the former emir of the tiny Gulf nation of Qatar who was deposed by his son in a bloodless palace coup, died on Sunday. The emiri diwa...
Simone Schaller, Olympic hurdler in '32 and '36, dies at 104

The Associated Press
Oct 22, 2016 7:00 am - ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) - Simone Schaller, an American hurdler who competed at the 1932 and 1936 Summer Games and was believed to be the oldest living Olympian, has died. S...

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