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Kobe Bryant’s path to greatness in the NBA seemed assured. But it would not be easy.
During his 40-year career in Congress representing the East Bay, Fortney ‘Pete’ Stark helped craft the Affordable Care Act. He died Friday at 88.
Karlen also appeared in ‘Hill Street Blues’ and ‘The Streets of San Francisco’
Former Republican Rep. Thomas Railsback, who said he had to support Nixon’s impeachment because “the evidence was there,” dies at 87.
Jim Lehrer, co-host and later host of the nightly ‘PBS NewsHour’ that for decades offered a thoughtful take on current events, has died, PBS said. He was 85.
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Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the independent-minded jurist whose bright bow ties and courteous manner symbolized an old-fashioned style of integrity, died Tuesday after suffering a stroke a day earlier. He was 99. -
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Bill Buckner played 22 major league seasons, including eight with the Dodgers and two with the California Angels.
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Jones’ agent says he died Tuesday evening. In a statement, his family said he died “after a long, extremely brave but always good-humored battle with a rare form of dementia, FTD.”
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Folk singer wrote songs recorded by Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris, among others
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Frieda Caplan, the first woman to own and run a produce company in the U.S. and is credited for introducing hundreds of exotic fruits and veggies to American markets, is dead. She was 96.
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Christopher Tolkien helped edit and publish much of J.R.R. Tolkien’s work after the science fiction and fantasy writer died in 1973.
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Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson adopted his nickname from his father
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Over half a century in two countries, with vastly different cultures and filmmaking languages, Passer directed a steady series of much-admired and often underappreciated films of economy, fidelity, humor and subtle beauty, among them “Intimate Lighting,” “Cutter’s Way,” “Stalin,” “Haunted Summer” and “Born to Win.”
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Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the Mideast’s longest-ruling monarch who seized power in a 1970 palace coup, has died.
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The drummer and lyricist for beloved Canadian hard-rock trio Rush was widely considered one of rock’s most skilled instrumentalists.
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He cut short drug-related suspensions of players, including former Dodger pitcher Steve Howe
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Australian actor Harry Hains,who appeared in “American Horror Story,” “The OA” and “Sneaky Pete,” has died at 27.
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Edd Byrnes, who played Kookie on the hit TV show “77 Sunset Strip” and appeared in the 1978 movie “Grease,” has died at 87.
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Judy Garland, who paid a tragic price for the life of the show-business superstar, died in London Sunday.
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Frieda Caplan, the first woman to own and run a produce company in the U.S. and is credited for introducing hundreds of exotic fruits and veggies to American markets, is dead. She was 96.
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Walter Brennan, for more than 50 years one of Hollywood’s most renown character actors, died Saturday at St.
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Carmen Miranda, 46, the explosive Brazilian star who set the hips of the nation swinging to the samba, was found dead yesterday in a hallway of her palatial home at 616 N.
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