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Louis Sheldon’s Traditional Values Coalition was designated as an anti-LGBTQ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Denny Holt died on Feb. 8 in Hawaii at the age of 84; guided Monroe to two City titles.
Herbert Stempel, a whistleblower of early television whose confession to deliberately losing on a ‘50s quiz show helped drive a national scandal, dies.
Christo’s 1991 installations of more than 1,000 colorful umbrellas in Southern California and Japan resulted in tragedy. Christo created ephemeral projects across the globe
Led CBS News’ Washington coverage during the civil rights movement, Vietnam War and Watergate
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A surfer inspired by the properties of water and light, Alexander was one of the Light and Space artists who imbued minimalism with SoCal buoyancy. -
Joseph Yamada and Elizabeth Kikuchi were born two days apart, but they didn’t meet until they were both were sent to the World War II incarceration camp in Poston, Ariz.
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Kramer, whose 1985 drama ‘The Normal Heart’ about the early years of the AIDS crisis was an angry indictment of inaction by officials, has died at 84.
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Stanley Ho, the Macao casino tycoon considered the father of modern gambling in China, has died at age 98.
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Cobb was the last surviving member of Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue,” a groundbreaking 1959 jazz album that transformed the genre.
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Orange County real estate magnate William Lyon, who built more than 100,000 homes nationwide and helped shape suburban America, has died at 97.
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Jerry Sloan, the coach who took the Utah Jazz to the NBA Finals in 1997 and 1998 on his way to a spot in the Basketball Hall of Fame, has died at 78.
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The conscience of black L.A., Aubry wrote a column for the Los Angeles Sentinel for 33 years.
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Thrust into the spotlight when her husband became the first American to orbit Earth, she shied away from the media attention because of a severe stutter.
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French actor Michel Piccoli, a prolific screen star who appeared in landmark films by directors such as Luis Bunuel and Jean-Luc Godard, has died.
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Eddie Haskell stood out among many memorable characters on the classic family sitcom that had a decades-long life of reruns and revivals.
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Christo’s 1991 installations of more than 1,000 colorful umbrellas in Southern California and Japan resulted in tragedy. Christo created ephemeral projects across the globe
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Vivien Leigh, the tiny, frail actress from the Himalaya Mountains who won enduring fame for her fiery film performance as Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone With the Wind,” died Saturday in London.
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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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Bettie Page, the brunet pinup queen with a shoulder-length pageboy hairdo and kitschy bangs whose saucy photos helped usher in the sexual revolution of the 1960s, has died.
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Joseph A. Dear, who joined CalPERS in 2009, led the country’s largest public pension fund out of the Great Recession. The fund’s investments more than recouped their recessionary losses during his tenure.
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Genevieve Waite, the South African actress, singer and model who became a quintessential face and voice of the 1960s when, for a brief time, she seemed as omnipresent as Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol or the other fixtures of the era, has died in Los Angeles.
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