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‘Dr. Jack’ Ramsay, legendary NBA coach and a voice of the Miami...

Beloved former NBA coach and Heat broadcaster Jack Ramsay succumbed to cancer Monday. ‘The game has lost a giant,’ Heat president Pat Riley said.

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Longtime Southern U band leader Isaac Greggs dies

Southern University says Isaac Greggs, who headed the university's marching band for 36 years, has died.

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Miami businessman, civic leader Walter Etling dies at 88

Think back on many of Miami’s iconic images and chances are Walter Etling had his fingerprints on them.

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‘Dr. Jack’ Ramsay, legendary NBA coach and a voice of the Miami...

Beloved former NBA coach and Heat broadcaster Jack Ramsay succumbed to cancer Monday. ‘The game has lost a giant,’ Heat president Pat Riley said.

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Vermont 'hippie commune' co-founder dies at 94

Isabelle "Barbara" Fiske Calhoun, a New York cartoonist during World War II who moved to Vermont just after the war to co-found what is now described as Vermont's "oldest alternative and artist's...

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Egyptian blogger Bassem Sabry dies

Bassem Sabry, one of Egypt's most respected bloggers and a democracy advocate who chronicled the country's turmoil since the 2011 uprising that ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak, has died. He was 31.

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'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' actor Hoskins dies at 71

Bob Hoskins never lost his Cockney accent, even as he became a global star who charmed and alarmed audiences in a vast range of roles.

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British actor Bob Hoskins dies, aged 71

LONDON - British actor Bob Hoskins, who starred in films such as "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," has died of pneumonia at the age of 71, his family said Wednesday.

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Tough guy British actor Bob Hoskins dies

British actor Bob Hoskins, whose roles ranged from London gangsters to FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover and who starred opposite a cast of cartoon characters in “Who Framed Roger...

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Former Mad magazine editor Al Feldstein dies at 88

Al Feldstein, whose 28 years at the helm of Mad magazine transformed the satirical publication into a pop culture institution, has died. He was 88.

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Al Feldstein, who headed Mad magazine, dies

Al Feldstein, whose 28 years at the helm of Mad magazine transformed the satirical publication into a pop culture institution, has died. He was 88.

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Mad Magazine's Al Feldstein dies at 88

Before "The Daily Show," "The Simpsons" or even "Saturday Night Live," Al Feldstein helped show America how to laugh at authority and giggle at popular culture.

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Iconic Israeli filmmaker Assi Dayan dies at 68

Actor and director Assi Dayan, an Israeli cultural icon who was known for both his trailblazing films and troubled personal life, died on Thursday in his Tel Aviv home. He was 68.

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Walter Walsh, FBI agent and Olympian, dead at 106

Walter R. Walsh, who captured gangsters as an FBI agent in the 1930s and went on to train Marine Corps snipers and become the longest-lived Olympian, has died.

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Miami collage artist Sky Farrell, daughter of ’60s songwriter Wes...

Friends in the art worlds in Miami, Atlanta, New York and Los Angeles took to social media to mourn the death of one of their own: Wynwood artist Sky Farrell.

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Cuban musician Juan Formell of Los Van Van dies

Cuban musician Juan Formell, who for more than four decades was the driving force behind the big band salsa orchestra Los Van Van, died Thursday. He was 71.

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Former 100-yard dash record-holder Frank Budd dies

Olympic sprinter and former 100-yard dash world record-holder Frank Budd died this week at 74.

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Tony-nominated director Nicholas Martin dies

Nicholas Martin, an actor-turned-director who ran two important Massachusetts theater companies and earned a Tony Award nomination for directing "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" on Broadway last...

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Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf founder Herbert Hyman dies

Herbert Hyman, who founded The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in the 1960s and saw the premium coffee chain grow to hundreds of stores around the world, has died in Southern California. He was 82.

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Efrem Zimbalist Jr., star of 'The FBI,' dead at 95

Efrem Zimbalist Jr., the son of famous musical parents who established his own lasting celebrity in two of television's most popular series, "77 Sunset Strip" and "The F.B.I.," died Friday at age 95.

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