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Willie Garson dies at 57; actor was best known for role on ‘Sex and the City’
By Sandra Gonzalez | CNN Actor Willie Garson, known for his role on the “Sex and the City” series and films, has died, according to his son, Nathen Garson. He was 57. “I love you so much papa. Rest In...
View ArticleRaiders’ Black Hole co-founder ‘Raider Rob’ Rivera dies of COVID-19
Rob Rivera, known as “Raider Rob” to the fans of the iconic south end zone at the Coliseum — the Black Hole — has died of COVID-19. Rivera, who was his 50s, according to ESPN, was known as the...
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Melvin Van Peebles dies at 89; director was considered the godfather of Black...
By Jake Coyle | Associated Press NEW YORK — Melvin Van Peebles, the groundbreaking playwright, musician and movie director whose work ushered in the “Blaxploitation” wave of the 1970s and influenced...
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Photos: Loved ones, Lafayette school community mourn ‘heroic’ crossing guard
Neighbors, teachers, students and family members of Ashley Dias, gathered Wednesday to celebrate his life on the field at Lafayette’s Stanley Middle School — the same school he attended as child. Dias,...
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He may have been the last person who knew what happened to art from famous...
Robert V. Gentile, a Connecticut gangster who died last week, had been suspected for years of concealing clues to the world’s richest art heist. The 85-year-old Gentile, who died Sept. 17 in a Hartford...
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Sex and the City star Willie Garson’s cause of death revealed
By Lisa Respers France | CNN Willie Garson’s family has shared how he died. In a New York Times obituary published Thursday, his family wrote that the 57-year-old actor, whose legal name was William...
View ArticleAutopsy: ‘The Wire’ star Michael K. Williams died of accidental overdose
Associated Press NEW YORK — Actor Michael K. Williams died of acute drug intoxication in what New York City’s medical examiner said Friday was an accidental death. Williams, known for playing Omar...
View ArticleNebraska billionaire, philanthropist Walter Scott dies at 90
By Josh Funk | Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. — Billionaire Walter Scott, the past top executive of Peter Kiewit Sons Inc. construction firm who helped oversee Warren Buffett’s conglomerate and donated...
View ArticleJohn Artis, co-defendant of ‘Hurricane’ Carter, dies at 75
HAMPTON, Va. (AP) — John Artis, who was wrongly convicted with boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter in a triple murder case made famous in a 1975 song by Bob Dylan and a 1999 film staring Denzel Washington,...
View ArticleHard-hitting Hall of Fame linebacker Sam Huff dies at 87
By Tom Canavan | Associated Press Sam Huff, the hard-hitting Hall of Fame linebacker who helped the New York Giants reach six NFL title games from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s and later became a...
View ArticleActor Heath Freeman dies at 41; had roles on ‘NCIS’ and ‘Bones’
By Megan Thomas | CNN Heath Freeman, an actor who appeared in numerous television series including “Bones,” “NCIS” and “The Closer,” has died, according to his manager. He was 41. “We are truly...
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Rapper Young Dolph slain in Tennessee shooting
By Adrian Sainz | Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Rapper Young Dolph was shot and killed Wednesday at a cookie shop in his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, and a search is underway for the shooter,...
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‘Charlie’s Meadow’ dedicated to honor fallen hotshot firefighter from 2020 El...
An azure sky loomed over the now-golden meadow at the Boy Scouts’ Camp Tahquitz. Mid-morning sunshine cascaded through the shimmering pines towering above, with fall-flecked mountainsides gazing down...
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SpongeBob voice actors help celebrate memorial at California school for...
Prior to inventing the denizens of the under-water city of Bikini Bottom for the iconic animated series “SpongeBob SquarePants,” Stephen Hillenburg was a student at Savanna High School in Anaheim. On...
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Longtime El Cerrito, East Bay journalist and historian Treadway dies at 66
EL CERRITO — Chris Treadway, a longtime champion of East Bay news and history, died Nov. 11 of pancreatic cancer. He was 66. In a 35-year journalism career that began in 1986, Treadway started out as a...
View ArticleFormer South Korean coup leader Chun Doo-hwan dead at 90
By Hyung-Jin Kim | Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea — Former South Korean military strongman Chun Doo-hwan, who took power in a 1979 coup and brutally crushed pro-democracy protests before going to...
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Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim dies at 91
By Mark Kennedy | Associated Press NEW YORK — Stephen Sondheim, the songwriter who reshaped the American musical theater in the second half of the 20th century with his intelligent, intricately rhymed...
View ArticleFashion designer Virgil Abloh dies of cancer at 41
By Jake Coyle | Associated Press NEW YORK — Virgil Abloh, a leading designer whose groundbreaking fusions of streetwear and high couture made him one of the most celebrated tastemakers in fashion and...
View ArticleLee Elder, 1st Black golfer to play Masters, dies at age 87
Lee Elder, who broke down racial barriers as the first Black golfer to play in the Masters and paved the way for Tiger Woods and others to follow, has died at the age of 87. The PGA Tour announced...
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Carrie Meek, pioneering Black congresswoman from Florida, dies at 95
By Freida Frisaro | Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Carrie Meek, the grandchild of a slave and a sharecropper’s daughter who became one of the first Black Floridians elected to Congress since...
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