Gavin MacLeod, ‘Love Boat’ captain, dies at 90
LOS ANGELES— Gavin MacLeod, the veteran supporting actor who achieved stardom as Murray Slaughter, the sardonic TV news writer on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” before going on to even bigger fame as the...
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B.J. Thomas, a man who sang so many wonderful songs, has died at 78
B.J. Thomas, the multi-Grammy winner best known for the iconic pop song “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” died on Saturday at his home in Arlington, Texas, due to complications from stage 4 lung...
View ArticleBiden honors war dead at Arlington, implores nation to heal
By Calvin Woodward | Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va. — President Joe Biden honored America’s war dead at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day by laying a wreath at the hallowed burial ground and...
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Photos: Memorial Day remembrances across the nation
Since the founding of America, more than 1 million people have died in service of our country. One of the earliest celebrations is believed to have been organized by a group of freed African Americans...
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Memorial Day: America’s fallen remembered in Bay Area
ALAMEDA — With speeches, prayers, the sounding of taps and a tossing of a wreath into San Franciso Bay, the women and men who died serving this nation were remembered on Memorial Day aboard the USS...
View ArticleRemains of Confederate general, KKK leader moved from Memphis
By Amanda Jackson and Devon M. Sayers | CNN Crews have started to remove the remains of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife from a Memphis park where a monument of him once stood....
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Photos: Chalkboard with messages for VTA shooting victims’ friends and...
HAYWARD — Messages of love, comfort and hope for Santa Clara Valley Transit Authority shooting victims’ families and friends were scrawled on a chalkboard easel at Hayward’s Greenwood Park on Tuesday...
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Photos: Memorial Day in the Bay Area
Despite the hot weather, in the 90s, hundreds of people gathered at events in San Jose and Alameda to honor veterans for Memorial Day. Related Articles Memorial Day: America’s fallen remembered in Bay...
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One year after fatal Vallejo police shooting, family still mourns for Sean...
The 1980 El Camino was discontinued in 1987, but Michelle and Ashley Monterrosa seem to see one on the road all the time. Each time, it takes them back. After all, the model was one their brother Sean...
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San Jose mass shooting: Victims’ families say goodbye, express ‘need to know...
UNION CITY — The inconsolable cries of Taptej Singh’s 3-year-old son keep the two dozen relatives staying at the family home this week awake at night. The boy, Jotsaroop, calls out for his father. “We...
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F. Lee Bailey, attorney who represented O.J. Simpson, dies at 87
By Mark Pratt | Associated Press WALTHAM, Mass. — F. Lee Bailey, the celebrity attorney who defended O.J. Simpson, Patricia Hearst and the alleged Boston Strangler, but whose legal career halted when...
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Slain Santa Cruz county sergeant killed in line of duty honored
SANTA CRUZ — Nearly one year after Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s deputy Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller was killed in the line of duty, a motorcycle brigade roared into the sheriff’s headquarters to honor...
View ArticleClarence Williams III, ‘The Mod Squad’s’ Linc, dies at 81
By Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press Clarence Williams III, who played the cool undercover cop Linc Hayes on the counterculture series “The Mod Squad” and Prince’s father in “Purple Rain,” has died. He...
View ArticleLast of Soviet soldiers who liberated Auschwitz dies at 98
BERLIN (AP) — David Dushman, the last surviving Soviet soldier involved in the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, has died. He was 98. The Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria said...
View ArticleFormer Super Bowl coach, ex-Raiders assistant Fassel dies at 71
Former Raiders assistant coach Jim Fassel, who brought the New York Giants to the Super Bowl and John Elway to Stanford, has died. He was 71. Fassel’s death was confirmed to the Los Angeles Times...
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Saying goodbye to ‘Nun Grandma’: The San Francisco philanthropist, widow and...
Before her death Saturday at 92, Sister Mary Joseph of the Trinity, O.C.D. , was the world’s most unlikely nun — a former millionaire with 10 children, 28 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren....
View ArticleNed Beatty, indelible in ‘Deliverance,’ ‘Network’ dies at 83
By JAKE COYLE | AP Film Write NEW YORK — Ned Beatty, the indelible character actor whose first film role as a genial vacationer brutally raped by a backwoodsman in 1972’s “Deliverance” launched him on...
View ArticleActress Lisa Banes dies after hit-and-run accident in New York
By Anna Sturla and Mark Morales | CNN Actress Lisa Banes, who appeared in numerous television series and films like “Gone Girl,” died Monday after suffering injuries sustained from being hit by a...
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New mural in Oakland’s Montclair spotlights India’s COVID crisis
OAKLAND — When Daniel Swafford became the Montclair Village Association’s executive director in 2011, there was one piece of public art in the district’s cozy commercial hamlet. “It was a very small...
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Ohlone College board member, educator Vivien Larsen dies at 80
Vivien Larsen, a longtime Ohlone Community College District board member, former educator and counselor who dedicated much of her life to helping students, died last week at the age of 80, according to...
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