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Japanese arcade pioneer and 'Father of Pac-Man' has died

By YURI KAGEYAMA
Jan 30, 2017 6:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - Masaya Nakamura, the "Father of Pac-Man" who founded the Japanese video game company behind the hit creature-gobbling game, has died. He was 91. Nakamura, w...
'Perry Mason' actress Barbara Hale dies at 94

By LYNN ELBER
Jan 29, 2017 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Barbara Hale, a movie actress who found her most famous role on television as steadfast secretary Della Street in the long-running "Perry Mason" serie...
Academy-award winning sound engineer and film professor dies

The Associated Press
Jan 29, 2017 6:00 am - TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Richard Portman, a veteran sound engineer who won an Academy Award for his work on "The Deer Hunter" and later became a film school professor, h...
Oscar-nominated Emmanuelle Riva dies in Paris, age 89

The Associated Press
Jan 28, 2017 6:00 am - PARIS (AP) - Emmanuelle Riva, a French star of screen and stage who was nominated for an Academy Award for best actress in 2013, has died. She was 89. Riva died Friday a...
Pearl Harbor Navy salvage diver dies at 103

The Associated Press
Jan 28, 2017 6:00 am - SAN DIEGO (AP) - Ken Hartle, who as a Navy diver during World War II had the grim task of retrieving bodies from ships sunk by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, has died. He...
Pearl Harbor Navy salvage diver dies at 103

The Associated Press
Jan 28, 2017 6:00 am - SAN DIEGO (AP) - Ken Hartle, who as a Navy diver during World War II had the grim task of retrieving bodies from ships sunk by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, has died. He...
'A truly magnificent talent:' actor John Hurt dies at 77

By LYNNE O'DONNELL and SHAWN POGATCHNIK
Jan 28, 2017 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - As a self-described "old drunk," the actor John Hurt nonetheless had a half-century career highlighted with memorable performances, two Oscar nominations, ...
John Hurt, Oscar nominated for "The Elephant Man" dies at 77

By LINDSEY BAHR
Jan 28, 2017 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - The versatile actor Sir John Hurt, who could move audiences to tears in "The Elephant Man," terrify them in "Alien," and spoof that very same scene in...
Ex-NC State basketball star Charles Shackleford found dead

The Associated Press
Jan 27, 2017 6:00 am - KINSTON, N.C. (AP) - Charles Shackleford, a North Carolina State basketball star in the 1980s who spent six seasons in the NBA, was found dead in his home Friday. He was...
Pioneering TV actress Mary Tyler Moore dies at 80

By LYNN ELBER
Jan 26, 2017 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mary Tyler Moore didn't have it all on her 1970s sitcom, but what she had was enough. A husband and kids, long the stock TV recipe for female contentm...

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