Obituaries
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British singer Joe Cocker dies of lung cancerDec 21, 2014 10:00 pm - NEW YORK (AP) - Joe Cocker, the raspy-voiced British singer known for his frenzied cover of "With a Little Help From My Friends," the teary ballad "You Are So Beautiful"...
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New generation now operating Natchez cemeteryDec 20, 2014 10:00 pm - NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) - Every summer when she was growing up, Page Beasley Brown would come up from Baker, Louisiana, and spend a week with her grandmother in Natchez. But...
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Former Houston mayor Bob Lanier dies at 89Dec 20, 2014 10:00 pm - HOUSTON (AP) - Former Houston Mayor Bob Lanier, who was elected on promises to deal with the city's crime rate, died Saturday. He was 89. The Harris County Medical Exami...
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German-language pop superstar Udo Juergens diesDec 20, 2014 10:00 pm - BERLIN (AP) - Udo Juergens, an Austrian-born star who dominated pop music in the German-speaking world and sold more than 100 million records in a career spanning five d...
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Longtime Nashville radio personality Teddy Bart dead at 78Dec 20, 2014 10:00 pm - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Longtime Nashville radio personality Teddy Bart, who was recently inducted into the Tennessee Radio Hall of Fame, has died at the age of 78. In a...
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Questions remain in death of Dustin SelfDec 20, 2014 10:00 pm - BEND, Ore. (AP) - What exactly drove an Oklahoma teenager to travel to Oregon, leave his truck and survival gear behind and disappear on Steens Mountain will remain a my...
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Mokrzycki, former AP polling director, dies at 52Dec 20, 2014 10:00 pm - WEST NEWBURY, Mass. (AP) - Mike Mokrzycki, a former journalist and election polling specialist at The Associated Press who later started his own survey research business...
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Notable deaths last weekDec 20, 2014 12:01 am - • Lowell Steward, a former member of the Tuskegee Airmen who flew well over 100 missions over Europe during World War II, has died in California. He was 95. After gradu...
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New Giants 3B McGehee eager to play back homeDec 19, 2014 10:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Casey McGehee knows how much Pablo Sandoval meant to the Giants and the city of San Francisco. Even living across the country in Miami, he understoo...
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Christmas 1914: The day even WWI showed humanityDec 19, 2014 10:00 pm - PLOEGSTEERT, Belgium (AP) - With British and German forces separated only by a no-man's land littered with fallen comrades, sounds of a German Christmas carol suddenly d...