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Ernest Borgnine, who won Oscar for 'Marty,' showed comic side in sitcom, dies...

Ernest Borgnine seemed born to play the heavy when he burst onto the Hollywood scene as "Fatso" Judson, a sadistic stockade sergeant who viciously beats a private to death in the 1953 movie "From Here...

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Former Gophers, NFL lineman John Williams dead at 64

John Williams, a former Minnesota Gophers and NFL lineman who became a popular dentist and community leader in north Minneapolis after his football career, died Sunday while out for a walk, according...

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Treme Brass Band singer Lionel Batiste dead at 81

Lionel Batiste, the vocalist, bass drummer and assistant leader of the Treme Brass Band, has died. He was 81.

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Durable Borgnine's motto: 'You gotta go to work'

He was a tubby tough guy with a pug of a mug, as unlikely a big-screen star or a romantic lead as could be imagined.

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Canadian chef Anthony Sedlak dies at age 29

Canadian celebrity chef Anthony Sedlak has died at the age of 29.

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Tony-winning costume designer Pakledinaz dies

Two-time Tony Award winner Martin Pakledinaz, who designed hundreds of costumes for stars such as Sutton Foster and Patti LuPone, has died, his agent said Monday. He was 58.

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Pete Rustan, Acclaimed Scientist In a Top-Secret World

Pete Rustan once devised a way to keep Air Force planes from being damaged by lightning. He led a project to build a spacecraft that performed important scientific experiments on the moon. He earned a...

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Former Stanford basketball captain dies at 35

Former teammates reacted with shock to news of the sudden death of Peter Sauer, captain of Stanford's 1998 Final Four basketball team.

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MediaNews co-founder Richard Scudder dead at 99

Richard B. Scudder, co-founder and former chairman of MediaNews Group Inc., the nation's second-largest newspaper company, who also helped invent a process allowing newsprint to be recycled, died...

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Philip Fradkin, environmental writer who chronicled the West, dies at 77

Philip L. Fradkin, a native New Yorker whose fascination with the West turned him into an astute chronicler of the region's history and environmental legacy in books on such topics as the great San...

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Home cooking expert Marion Cunningham dies at 90

Marion Cunningham, the home-cooking champion whose legacy can be found in the food-spattered pages of "Fannie Farmer" cookbooks in kitchens across America, has died at age 90.

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James McKinley, football coach and prominent businessman, dies at 68

James McKinley, college football coach turned prominent Fort Lauderdale businessman, died Friday. He was 68.

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Marion Cunningham, icon of American cooking, dies at 90

Marion Cunningham's crusade to preserve the nightly supper hour came of her concern that without it children would never learn table manners or the give and take of dinner conversation. Not only that,...

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Bollywood strongman Dara Singh dies at 84

Bollywood action hero Dara Singh, best known for his TV portrayal of the Hindu monkey god Hanuman, died at his Mumbai home on Thursday, days after suffering a heart attack. He was 84.

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Jack Baldwin, former Orange Bowl president, dies

Miami community leader Charles Jackson “Jack’’ Baldwin, the University of Miami’s first mascot and a former president of the Orange Bowl Committee, passed...

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Widow of Nat 'King' Cole dies of cancer at 89

Maria Hawkins Cole, widow of jazz crooner Nat "King" Cole and mother of singer Natalie Cole, has died in South Florida after a short battle with cancer. She was 89.

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Former Maine congressman Peter Kyros dies at 86

Maine's former Democratic U.S. Rep. Peter Kyros has died at age 86.

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Maria Cole, singer who was widow of Nat King Cole, dies at 89

Maria Cole, the widow of music legend Nat King Cole and the mother of singer Natalie Cole whose own singing career included a stint as vocalist for Duke Ellington's orchestra in the mid-1940s, has...

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Joseph B. Platt, founding president of Harvey Mudd College, dies at 96

Launching a new college would "clearly be a great adventure but so is jumping off a bridge," physicist Joseph B. Platt wrote decades after accepting the challenge in 1956 to become the founding...

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Richard Zanuck, legendary film executive, dies at 77

Richard D. Zanuck, one of the most legendary and influential figures in the history of the movie business, died Friday morning at age 77.

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