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Award-winning Barbadian-born author Austin Clarke dies at 81

The Associated Press
Jun 26, 2016 7:00 am - TORONTO (AP) - Austin Clarke, the award-winning Barbadian-born author who wrote about the immigrant experience and being black in Canada, died Sunday at age 81. His publ...
Longtime Iowa sportscaster Bob Brooks dies at age 89

The Associated Press
Jun 26, 2016 7:00 am - CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - Longtime Iowa sports broadcaster Bob Brooks, who spent his more than seven-decade career covering everything from high school games to Hawkeyes...
Former Temple hoops star Hal Lear dies at 81

The Associated Press
Jun 26, 2016 7:00 am - WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - Hal Lear, the sweet-shooting guard who starred for the Temple Owls in the 1950s and still holds the school record for points in a season, has d...
Bernie Worrell, masterful P-Funk keyboardist, dead at 72

By HILLEL ITALIE
Jun 25, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Bernie Worrell, the ingenious "Wizard of Woo" whose amazing array of keyboard sounds and textures helped define the Parliament-Funkadelic musical empire ...
Bill Cunningham, NY Times fashion photographer, dies at 87

By MICHAEL BALSAMO
Jun 25, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Bill Cunningham, a longtime fashion photographer for The New York Times known for taking pictures of everyday people on the streets of New York, has died...
Michael Herr, author of the Vietnam-era 'Dispatches,' dies

By HILLEL ITALIE
Jun 25, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Michael Herr, the author and Oscar-nominated screenplay writer who viscerally documented the ravages of the Vietnam War through his classic nonfiction no...
Bernie Worrell, masterful P-Funk keyboardist, dead at 72

By HILLEL ITALIE
Jun 24, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Bernie Worrell, the ingenious "Wizard of Woo" whose amazing array of keyboard sounds and textures helped define the Parliament-Funkadelic musical empire ...
Son of iconic basketball coach Adolph Rupp dies at 75

The Associated Press
Jun 24, 2016 7:00 am - LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Adolph "Herky" Rupp Jr., the son of iconic University of Kentucky basketball coach Adolph Rupp, has died. He was 75. Milward funeral home in Lexing...
Bluegrass music patriarch Ralph Stanley dies at 89

By KRISTIN M. HALL
Jun 24, 2016 7:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Ralph Stanley, a patriarch of Appalachian music who with his brother Carter helped expand and popularize the genre that became known as bluegrass...
Longtime Ohio newspaper publisher John F. Wolfe dies at 72

The Associated Press
Jun 24, 2016 7:00 am - COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Longtime Ohio newspaper publisher John F. Wolfe, whose family sold The Columbus Dispatch last year and still owns television and radio stations, ha...

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