Obituaries
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NYT columnist David Carr dies at 58Feb 13, 2015 12:00 am - NEW YORK - Media columnist David Carr, who wrote the Media Equation column for The New York Times and penned a memoir about his fight with drug addiction, collapsed at h...
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Los Angeles television news pioneer Stan Chambers dies at 91Feb 12, 2015 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles television news pioneer Stan Chambers, who had a front-row seat to earthquakes, fires and the life of the city since the 1940s, died Frida...
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'Laugh-In' announcer, voiceover vet Gary Owens dies at 80Feb 12, 2015 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gary Owens, the droll, mellifluous-voiced announcer on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" and a familiar part of radio, TV and movies for more than six decad...
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British New Romantic icon Steve Strange dies at 55Feb 12, 2015 10:00 pm - LONDON (AP) - Steve Strange, a singer with the British band Visage and one of the founders of the 1980s' New Romantic style, has died at age 55. August Day Recordings, S...
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Rhonda Glenn, broadcaster and golf historian, diesFeb 12, 2015 10:00 pm - Rhonda Glenn, the first female anchor on ESPN who became a USGA historian and tireless promoter of women's golf, died after a long illness. She was 68. Barbara Romack, a...
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Arlington Heights doctor defied odds his whole lifeFeb 12, 2015 12:00 am - Throughout his life, Dr. Oswald Olivier defied the odds. Not only did he escape his native Haiti during the reign of Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, but he also attended ...
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CBS '60 Minutes' correspondent Bob Simon dies in car crashFeb 11, 2015 10:00 pm - NEW YORK (AP) - Longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent Bob Simon, who covered most major overseas conflicts and news stories since the late 1960s during a five-decade caree...
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Hall of Fame basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian dies in VegasFeb 11, 2015 10:00 pm - LAS VEGAS (AP) - He couldn't stop fighting the NCAA any more than he could give up chewing towels courtside. Jerry Tarkanian built a basketball dynasty in the desert, bu...
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Correction: Obit-Carr storyFeb 11, 2015 10:00 pm - NEW YORK (AP) - In some versions of a story Feb. 13 about the death of media columnist David Carr, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of the college at B...
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'60 Minutes' correspondent Bob Simon killed in crashFeb 11, 2015 12:00 am - NEW YORK - Longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent Bob Simon, who covered riots, Academy Award-nominated movies and wars and was held captive for more than a month in Iraq t...