Obituaries
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Leading Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda dies at 90
Oct 09, 2016 7:00 am - WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Poland's leading filmmaker Andrzej Wajda, whose career maneuvering between a repressive communist government and an audience yearning for freedom w...
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Stylianos Pattakos, Greek military coup figure, dies at 103
Oct 09, 2016 7:00 am - ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Stylianos Pattakos, the last survivor among the leaders of a 1967 coup that ruled Greece for seven years, has died at 103. The state-run Athens New...
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Brooklyn DA Kenneth Thompson dies at 50 from cancer
Oct 09, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson, the first African-American to hold the office and whose career included internationally high-profile cases i...
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Former archdiocese attorney, developer Laidley diesOct 07, 2016 1:00 am - Forrest David Laidley, who was an Archdiocese of Chicago attorney and a developer who built an upscale mall in Lincolnshire and later went to prison for scamming investo...
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Brock Yates, wrote hit film 'The Cannonball Run,' dies at 82
Oct 06, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Brock Yates, a longtime auto racing journalist who helped launch the popular and off-beat Cannonball Run races in the early 1970s and wrote the hit movie...
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NJIT assistant athletic director Tim Camp dies
Oct 06, 2016 7:00 am - NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Tim Camp, the assistant athletic director for sports information at NJIT, has died. He was 59. The school announced his death on Thursday. Camp, who ...
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UFC fighter Josh Samman dies at 28 of probable drug overdose
Oct 05, 2016 7:00 am - HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) - UFC middleweight Josh Samman died Wednesday after spending nearly a week in a Florida hospital following a probable drug overdose. He was 28. Dr. ...
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Michal Kovac, Slovakia's first president, dies at 86
Oct 05, 2016 7:00 am - BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) - Michal Kovac, who served as the first president of Slovakia after it became an independent state in 1993, has died. He was 86. Kovac died Wed...
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Longtime Hawaii sports writer Bill Kwon dies at age 81
Oct 05, 2016 7:00 am - HONOLULU (AP) - Longtime Hawaii sports writer Bill Kwon, who covered generations of golfers from Arnold Palmer to Michelle Wie, has died. He was 81. Kwon's friend and fo...
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'Thriller' songwriter Rod Temperton dies in London at 66
Oct 05, 2016 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Rod Temperton, a British-born musician and songwriter with a singular knack for pop-funk who wrote the Michael Jackson classics "Thriller," ''Rock With You...