Obituaries
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BC-CA--California News Digest 1:30 pm, CADec 25, 2014 10:00 pm - Hello! Here's a look at how AP's general news coverage is shaping up in California. Questions about coverage plans are welcome and should be directed to the AP-Los Angel...
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Jazz great Buddy DeFranco dies at age 91Dec 25, 2014 10:00 pm - PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) - Renowned jazz clarinetist Buddy DeFranco, who led the way on his instrument in the transition between the swing and bebop eras, has died at the ...
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Founder of huge defense contractor SAIC diesDec 25, 2014 10:00 pm - SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) - J. Robert Beyster, a scientist-turned-entrepreneur who founded a small technology firm called Science Applications International Corp. and built...
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Longtime Rangers clubhouse man Macko dies at 86Dec 25, 2014 10:00 pm - ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - Joe Macko, who hit 306 home runs in nearly 2,000 minor league games before a long career as a clubhouse manager with the Texas Rangers, has died....
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Former SC Gov. James Edwards dies at age 87Dec 25, 2014 10:00 pm - CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - James B. Edwards, South Carolina's first Republican governor since Reconstruction and later energy secretary for two years in the Reagan administ...
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SD mailman honored for assisting injured womanDec 24, 2014 10:00 pm - LETCHER, S.D. (AP) - Usually a letter carrier brings the mail, but to Norma Fristad earlier this year, it was an angel who made the delivery. Fristad, now 88, fell and b...
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Surgery opens eyelids of 2-year-old from AfricaDec 24, 2014 10:00 pm - FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - When little Nora came to Fort Wayne in October, she could barely see. The 2-year-old from the Ivory Coast was born with closed eyelids, a conditi...
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Text of pope's Christmas Day messageDec 24, 2014 10:00 pm - VATICAN CITY (AP) - Here is the official Vatican English-language translation of Pope Francis' "Urbi et Orbi' Christmas Day message, which he delivered in Italian from t...
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Top Canadian criminal lawyer Greenspan has diedDec 23, 2014 10:00 pm - TORONTO (AP) - Edward Greenspan, one of Canada's most prominent criminal lawyers, was remembered Wednesday as a force to be reckoned with by many in the legal community ...
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Omaha fire victim died at hospital, officials sayDec 23, 2014 10:00 pm - OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - One of two people pulled by Omaha firefighters from the basement of a burning boarding house has died. The Omaha Fire Department says the woman died T...