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Roberts joined ABC News in 1988 and was co-anchor with Sam Donaldson of the Sunday political show “This Week” from 1996 to 2002.
Obituary: Ric Okasek, the singer, guitarist and songwriter for the Cars, helped define the sound of the angled-haircut 1980s with songs including “Just What I Needed,” “Shake It Up” and more.
John Ralston, a former Cal player who guided Stanford to two Rose Bowl victories and later coached the Denver Broncos, has died. He was 92.
Phyllis Newman, who won the 1962 Tony for best supporting actress in the musical “Subways Are for Sleeping,” later went on to lead causes fighting diseases and issues relating to women’s health.
Ric Ocasek, founder and frontman of pop band the Cars, is dead at 75
Gloria Vanderbilt: 1934-2019
Gloria Vanderbilt experienced both loss and triumph on a grand scale.
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Fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt died Monday morning at age 95 of stomach cancer.
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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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Former Los Angeles Times reporter and columnist Robert A. Jones, who applied an erudite voice to California’s environmental battles and in retirement guided raft trips down the Colorado, has died.
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Juanita Abernathy wrote the business plan for the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, hosted Freedom Riders and marched on Washington in support of the Civil Rights Act.
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Singer-songwriter Eddie Money, whose hits include “Two Tickets to Paradise” and “Baby Hold On,” has died of cancer at age 70.
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Avant-garde architect and set designer Laszlo Rajk, who became a leader in Hungary’s dissident movement, has died at 70.
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Lee Salem edited and developed some of America’s best comic strips.
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The Austin, Texas-based Johnston, known for his childlike, homemade recordings, counted Kurt Cobain and Sonic Youth as fans, while battling mental illness throughout his career.
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The oil tycoon led bids to take over Gulf, Phillips and Unocal, and late in his career became a champion of renewable energy.
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Development of the small-craft harbor -- the largest in the country -- changed Los Angeles’ coastline forever.
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Alabama musician Jimmy Johnson, who played on or engineered dozens of R&B, soul and rock hits of the 1960s and ‘70s, has died at 76.
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Fiercely independent photographer and filmmaker whose bleak yet poetic book “The Americans” jolted the nation’s self-image and sparked a photographic revolution
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Al Carmichael, who played at USC, Green Bay and Denver and was the first player to score a touchdown in the AFL, has died at age 90.
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Roberts joined ABC News in 1988 and was co-anchor with Sam Donaldson of the Sunday political show “This Week” from 1996 to 2002.
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Lee Salem edited and developed some of America’s best comic strips.
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Kary Mullis was an unconventional and often controversial Nobel laureate.
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If you like to customize your hamburger order — hold the bun, extra Sriracha and pimento cheese, please — you might have Marilyn Lewis to thank.
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Ric Ocasek, founder and frontman of pop band the Cars, is dead at 75
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Kenneth Price was among the first generation of iconoclastic L.A. artists to attain international stature. His work with glazed and painted clay was ‘resolutely original’ and redefined contemporary sculpture, an observer says.
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