Obituaries
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Longtime AP sports writer, editor Ben Olan dies at 96
Nov 11, 2019 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Ben Olan, a sports writer and editor at The Associated Press for more than 50 years who was honored by the NHL Hall of Fame, has died. He was 96. Known f...
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Former Spartan, NFL receiver Charles Rogers dies at age 38
Nov 11, 2019 6:00 am - DETROIT (AP) - Former Michigan State star and Detroit Lions receiver Charles Rogers has died at the age of 38. A woman who identified herself as Cathy Rogers, his mother...
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Beatles album cover photographer Robert Freeman dies at 82
Nov 09, 2019 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Photographer Robert Freeman, who helped define the image of The Beatles with some of the band's best-known album covers, has died aged 82. A statement on T...
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Leading intellectual in Benin, Albert Tevoedjre, dies at 89
Nov 06, 2019 6:00 am - COTONOU, Benin (AP) - Albert Tevoedjre, a Benin political scientist and one of former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's most trusted experts on social and economic dev...
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Canadian Olympic basketball star Eli Pasquale dies at 59
Nov 05, 2019 6:00 am - TORONTO (AP) - Canadian Olympic basketball star Eli Pasquale has died at 59. Canada Basketball says in a statement he died Monday of cancer. Pasquale led Canada to a fou...
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Acclaimed novelist Ernest Gaines dies at 86
Nov 05, 2019 6:00 am - NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Novelist Ernest J. Gaines, whose poor childhood on a small Louisiana plantation germinated stories of black struggles that grew into universal tales o...
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Black man who led neo-Nazi group dies amid bid to destroy it
Nov 04, 2019 6:00 am - A black activist who took control of one of the nation's largest neo-Nazi groups - and vowed to dismantle it - has died amid a legal fight over who would lead the group....
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Legendary Puerto Rican astrologer Walter Mercado dies at 88
Nov 03, 2019 6:00 am - SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Television astrologer Walter Mercado, whose glamorous persona made him a star in Latin media and a cherished icon for gay people in most of ...
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Brian Tarantina of 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' dead at 60
Nov 03, 2019 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Brian Tarantina, a character actor who was most recently known for his role in "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," has died in his Manhattan home. He was 60. Th...
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Colorful Columbia Sportswear Co. chairwoman Gert Boyle dies
Nov 03, 2019 6:00 am - PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Gert Boyle, the colorful chairwoman of Oregon-based Columbia Sportswear Co. who starred in ads proclaiming her as "One Tough Mother," died Sunday. ...