Today’s Headlines
The ALS Assn. says that Pat Quinn, a co-founder of the ice bucket challenge that became popular around the world, has died at the age of 37.
Dolphins safety played in three straight Super Bowls, twice winning a championship ring
Jan Morris, the celebrated journalist, historian, world traveler and fiction writer who became a pioneer of the transgender movement, has died at 94.
Fred “Curly” Morrison, MVP of the 1950 Rose Bowl, an All-Pro NFL running back and former GM of the Los Angeles Express, has died at 94.
Walter C. Miller earned five Emmys, a Peabody Award and the Grammy Trustees Award. He died Nov. 13 at his home in L.A. at age 94.
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With engines strapped to his back, Vincent Reffet had flown over the world’s tallest building and alongside a jumbo jet. He was 36.
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Swedien worked alongside producer Quincy Jones on Michael Jackson’s first three history-making solo albums: “Off the Wall,” “Thriller” and “Bad.”
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Legendary actor had more than 200 movies to his name.
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James L. (Jim) Perzik, the longtime legal counsel of Dr. Jerry Buss and the Lakers, died on Wednesday from complications of COVID 19. He was 91.
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The Green Bay Packers star who played on four championship teams dies at 84.
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Britain’s Prison Service says that serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, who was widely known as the ‘Yorkshire Ripper,’ has died in the hospital.
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Rawlings twice staged coups before bringing stability to the West African nation
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Bahrain’s long-serving prime minister, Prince Khalifa bin Salman Khalifa, has died at 84.
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The Fallbrook TV repairman who gained fame in the KKK and as leader of WAR died last week in Hemet.
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Tommy Heinsohn, who as a Boston Celtics player, coach and broadcaster was with the team for all 17 of its NBA championships, has died. He was 86.
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Arguably the most internationally recognized Palestinian figure for decades, after Yasser Arafat, Erekat contracted COVID-19.
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With “Beloved” and other writings, Toni Morrison gave voice to the silences in the past and created some of the most memorable characters in American literature.
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The ALS Assn. says that Pat Quinn, a co-founder of the ice bucket challenge that became popular around the world, has died at the age of 37.
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Hoyt S. Pardee dies at 91; prominent home builder in Southern California
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The Green Bay Packers star who played on four championship teams dies at 84.
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Herb Lotman, a food industry entrepreneur who founded Keystone Foods and developed a mass-production system for making McDonald’s frozen hamburgers, has died.
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Shi Pei Pu began an affair with Bernard Boursicot, telling Boursicot that he was a woman pretending to be a man. Boursicot took Shi at his word. They later went to prison in France for spying.
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James Baldwin, a renowned writer who spent a lifetime in literature trying to explore his identity as a black and as an American, died Monday night at the age of 63 in his home in St.
