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Norman Mineta, transportation secretary in 9/11 era, dies

By BRIAN WITTE and TERENCE CHEA
May 03, 2022 7:00 am - ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Norman Mineta, who broke racial barriers for Asian Americans serving in high-profile government posts and ordered commercial flights grounded after...
Photographer Ron Galella, sued by Jackie Onassis, dead at 91

By KAREN MATTHEWS
May 03, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Ron Galella, the photographer known for his visceral celebrity shots and his dogged pursuit of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who sued him and won a restrai...
Czech arts collector, patron Meda Mladkova dies at 102

By KAREL JANICEK
May 03, 2022 7:00 am - PRAGUE (AP) - Meda Mladkova, a Czech arts collector, patron and historian who was an impassioned promoter of Frantisek Kupka and supported artists in communist Czechoslo...
Leonard Ignelzi, renowned AP photographer, dies at 74

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and BERNIE WILSON
May 03, 2022 7:00 am - SAN DIEGO (AP) - Leonard Ignelzi, whose knack for being in the right place at the right time produced breathtaking images of Hall of Fame sports figures, devastating wil...
Kathy Boudin, radical imprisoned in fatal heist, dies at 78

By MICHAEL HILL
May 02, 2022 7:00 am - Kathy Boudin, a former Weather Underground radical who served more than two decades behind bars for her role in a fatal 1981 armored truck robbery and spent the latter p...
Krueger, ex-Texas congressman and diplomat, dies at 86

The Associated Press
May 01, 2022 7:00 am - NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas (AP) - Robert C. Krueger, who followed two U.S. House terms with a brief interim appointment to the Senate before launching a sometimes-hazardous di...
ESSAY: For a gay country boy, Naomi Judd did build a bridge

By JEFF McMILLAN
May 01, 2022 7:00 am - Somewhere in Michigan in the early 1990s, a teenage farm boy clings to a chain-link fence at the edge of the county fairgrounds. He is angling for a distant, and free, g...
Ricardo AlarcÃ³n, Castro confidant and top Cuban envoy, dies

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ
May 01, 2022 7:00 am - HAVANA (AP) - Ricardo AlarcÃ³n, who was for years the head of Cuba's parliament and one of the country's most prominent diplomats, has died in Havana, authorities in Cub...
Mower, co-inventor of implantable defibrillator, dies at 89

The Associated Press
May 01, 2022 7:00 am - BALTIMORE (AP) - Dr. Morton Mower, a former Maryland-based cardiologist who helped invent an automatic implantable defibrillator that has helped countless heart patients...
Weather was a passion for Grayslake student killed returning from storm chasing trip

By Steve Zalusky
May 01, 2022 1:00 am - Since he was a boy, Gavin Short was interested in the weather. "Once he discovered the Weather Channel on TV, it was just a passion that grew and grew inside him," his ...

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