Obituaries
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Robert Bernstein, top publishing executive, dead at 96
May 28, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Robert L. Bernstein, a publishing executive and human rights activist who presided over a generation of dynamic growth at Random House and advocated for ...
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John Gary Williams of R&B group The Mad Lads dies at 73
May 28, 2019 7:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - John Gary Williams, the lead singer for the R&B vocal group The Mad Lads who sung "I Want Someone" and "Don't Have to Shop Around," has died. He ...
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Tony Horwitz, 'Confederates in the Attic' author, dies at 60
May 28, 2019 7:00 am - BOSTON (AP) - Tony Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the best-selling author of "Confederates in the Attic," has died. He was 60. Horwitz died Monday of a...
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Edmund Morris, known for his biography of Reagan, dies at 78
May 27, 2019 7:00 am - DANBURY, Conn. (AP) - Presidential biographer Edmund Morris, best known for writing a book about the life of Ronald Reagan, has died. He was 78. Morris died Friday in a ...
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Former St. John's baseball coach, player Russo dies at 74
May 27, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Former St. John's baseball coach and player Joe Russo, who captained the team to the College World Series in 1966 as a slick-fielding shortstop and retur...
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Nobel-winning physicist Murray Gell-Man dies at 89
May 26, 2019 7:00 am - SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who brought order to the universe by helping discover and classify subatomic particles, has die...
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Auburn announcer Rod Bramblett, wife killed in auto accident
May 26, 2019 7:00 am - AUBURN, Ala. (AP) - Rod Bramblett, the longtime radio announcer for Auburn football and basketball games, and his wife were killed in a two-vehicle accident. Lee County ...
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Former Thai Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda dies at 98
May 26, 2019 7:00 am - BANGKOK (AP) - Prem Tinsulanonda, who as an army commander, prime minister and adviser to the royal palace was one of Thailand's most influential political figures over ...
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Founder of Rosemont Cavaliers, trendsetter for drum and bugle corps diesMay 25, 2019 1:00 am - Don Warren founded the Rosemont Cavaliers and helped guide the drum and bugle corps to more than 20 national titles and seven world championships with Drum Corps Interna...
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WWII Code Talker and longtime NM lawmaker dies at 94
May 24, 2019 7:00 am - SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - John Pinto, a Navajo Code Talker in World War II who became one of the nation's longest serving Native American elected officials as a New Mexico s...