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2001 Kentucky Derby winner Monarchos dies at 18

By GARY B. GRAVES
Oct 25, 2016 7:00 am - MIDWAY, Ky. (AP) - Monarchos, whose Kentucky Derby-winning time in 2001 was second only to Secretariat, has died. He was 18. Nuckols Farm owner Charles Nuckols III confi...
Top pilot who stole plane to escape WWII prison camp dies

By JOHN ANTCZAK
Oct 25, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Robert A. "Bob" Hoover, a World War II fighter pilot who became an aviation legend for his flying skills in testing aircraft and demonstrating their c...
Award-winning poet and essayist Lucia Perillo dies at 58

The Associated Press
Oct 25, 2016 7:00 am - OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Lucia Perillo, an award-winning author and Pulitzer Prize finalist, has died at the age of 58. The publishing company Copper Canyon Press reported ...
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...

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