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OSS agent who led WWII rescue of 500 dies in NY

George Vujnovich, the intelligence agent who organized a World War II mission to rescue more than 500 U.S. bomber crew members shot down over Nazi-occupied Serbia, has died at his home in New York. He...

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Tomas Borge, last living founder of Nicaragua's Sandinista movement, dies at 81

Tomas Borge, last living founder of Nicaragua's Sandinista movement and one of its most hard-line enforcers as it battled U.S.-backed forces for decades, has died. He was 81.

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Mourners say farewell to famed track coach LeRoy Walker

His grandchildren called him Papa. Olympians he mentored called him Doc. And though he was a Ph.D., a university chancellor and president of the U.S. Olympic Committee, most people called him Coach.

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1950s Hollywood leading lady Patricia Medina dies

The actress who became a leading lady of Hollywood films in the 1950s opposite Glenn Ford, Alan Ladd, Karl Malden and Fernando Lamas has died in Los Angeles. Patricia Medina was 92.

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Police: Junior Seau found dead at California home

Former NFL star Junior Seau was found dead at his home Wednesday, authorities said.

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Former Chargers linebacker Junior Seau dies in apparent suicide

Through her tears, Luisa Seau said that there had been no warning of this. How could her son, Junior, who had so much promise in his life and during a glittery football career, want to kill himself? "I...

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Ex-CBS newsman, journalism prof. Ben Silver dies

Former CBS news correspondent and Arizona State University journalism professor Ben Silver has died. He was 85.

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Patricia Medina, leading lady in string of 1950s Hollywood films, dies at 92

Patricia Medina, a British-born actress whose Hollywood career as a leading lady in the 1950s spanned the talking mule comedy "Francis" and Orson Welles' crime-thriller "Mr. Arkadin," has died. She was...

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Bob Smith, orthodontist invented better ski goggles, dies

At his kitchen table, orthodontist Bob Smith tried to solve a problem that dogged him on the ski slopes in the early 1960s by using dental tools and foam to fashion prototypes of fog-resistant goggles.

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Buddy Havlin, TV producer and radio-station founder, dies

Buddy Havlin, who traveled with big-name rock bands in the 1960s, produced local TV in the ’70s, co-founded Miami’s first community-access radio station in the 1980s, and taught...

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Skatalites' bassist Brevett dies in Jamaica at 80

Lloyd Brevett, a renowned double bassist who helped carry ska music from Jamaica to the world as a founding member of the hugely influential band The Skatalites, died Thursday at age 80.

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Charles Higham, controversial celebrity biographer, dies at 81

Charles Higham, a poet, critic and prolific celebrity biographer who found political and sexual intrigue in the lives of Hollywood icons such as Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich and, most controversially,...

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Celebrity biographer Charles Higham dies at 81

Celebrity biographer Charles Higham, who wrote about the lives of Lucille Ball, Errol Flynn, Katharine Hepburn, Howard Hughes and others, has died in Los Angeles at age 81.

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Adam Yauch, founding member of the Beastie Boys, dies at 47

LOS ANGELES - The Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch, best known the world over as the thoughtful, witty, in-your-face rapper MCA, has died, according to Rolling Stone and the hip-hop website Global Grind, which...

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Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys dies at 47

Adam Yauch, the gravelly voiced Beastie Boys rapper and the most conscientious member of the seminal hip-hop group, has died. He was 47.

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Adam Yauch, founding member of the Beastie Boys, dies at 47

LOS ANGELES - The Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch, best known the world over as the thoughtful, witty, in-your-face rapper MCA, has died.

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Reaction to death of Adam Yauch of Beastie Boys

Reaction to the death Friday of Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys:

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Jim McCrary, photographer who shot Carole King's 'Tapestry' cover, dies at 72

Photographer Jim McCrary was on the verge of shooting one of his most famous images when he stopped to ask singer Carole King if the cat sleeping across the room could be part of the tableau.

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Greek actor and lawmaker Costas Karras dies at 75

Costas Karras, a popular actor and former conservative politician, died Sunday in Athens of complications from cancer, his family announced. He was 75.

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George Lindsey, Goober Pyle on 'The Andy Griffith Show,' dies at 83

George Lindsey, the Southern-born character actor who played dim hayseed Goober Pyle, the genial gas station auto mechanic on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Mayberry R.F.D.," died early Sunday morning....

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