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Former SF Giants manager Roger Craig dies at 93
Roger Craig, the manager who brought “Humm Baby” to San Francisco Giants lore and turned the franchise around from its lowest point in history, has died, the team announced on Sunday. He was 93. After...
View ArticleConvicted spy Robert Hanssen dies in prison
By Michelle Watson | CNN Robert Philip Hanssen, who received payments of $1.4 million in cash and diamonds for the information he gave the Soviet Union and Russia, has died, the Federal Bureau of...
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Oakland native Jim Hines, once the world’s fastest man, dies at 76
By Matt Foster | CNN Two-time Olympic gold medalist Jim Hines, who was the first man to run 100m in under 10 seconds, passed away on Saturday at the age of 76, according to World Athletics. Hines...
View ArticleFrancoise Gilot, acclaimed painter, Picasso lover, dies at 101
By Jocelyn Noveck | Associated Press NEW YORK — Françoise Gilot, a prolific and acclaimed painter who produced art for well more than a half-century but was nonetheless more famous for her turbulent...
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‘Our daughter is coming home’: Alexis Gabe family prepares to lay her to rest
With officials having wrapped up an autopsy and forensic tests, the family of Alexis Gabe can finally lay their daughter to rest. The remains of the 23-year-old Oakley woman – killed more than a year...
View ArticlePat Robertson, broadcaster who helped make religion central to GOP politics,...
By BEN FINLEY | Associated Press VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Pat Robertson, a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for...
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BMX star Pat Casey dies in crash at Southern California motocross park
BMX professional rider Pat Casey died in an accident Tuesday at a motocross park in San Diego County, the county medical examiner’s office confirmed. Casey, 29, crashed while riding a motorcycle at a...
View ArticleMusician George Winston dies at 73; New Age pianist sold millions of albums
Associated Press NEW YORK — George Winston, the Grammy-winning pianist who blended jazz, classical, folk and other stylings on such million-selling albums as “Autumn,” “Winter Into Spring” and...
View ArticleBook publisher Richard Snyder dies at 90; ‘warrior-king’ was at heart of...
By Hillel Italie | Associated Press NEW YORK — Richard Snyder, a visionary and imperious executive at Simon & Schuster who in bold-faced style presided over the publisher’s exponential rise during...
View ArticleThe Iron Sheik, pro wrestling villain that fans loved to jeer, dies at 81
By Adrian Sainz | Associated Press The Iron Sheik, a former pro wrestler who relished playing a burly, bombastic villain in 1980s battles with some of the sport’s biggest stars and later became a...
View ArticleActor Mike Batayeh dies at 52; played laundromat manager on ‘Breaking Bad’
By Megan Thomas | CNN Mike Batayeh, a comedian and actor who played laundromat manager Dennis Markowski in “Breaking Bad,” has died, his manager confirmed to CNN. He was 52. The news was first reported...
View ArticleTed Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, has died in federal prison at 81
By MICHAEL BALSAMO and LINDSAY WHITEHURST (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and...
View ArticleTed Kaczynski, ‘Unabomber’ who attacked modern life, dies at 81
Theodore J. Kaczynski, the so-called Unabomber, who attacked academics, businesspeople and random civilians with homemade bombs from 1978 to 1995, killing three people and injuring 23 with the stated...
View ArticleSilvio Berlusconi, scandal-scarred ex-Italian leader, dies at 86
By FRANCES D’EMILIO | Associated Press ROME — Silvio Berlusconi, the boastful billionaire media mogul who was Italy’s longest-serving premier despite scandals over his sex-fueled parties and...
View ArticleSilvio Berlusconi draws tributes, even from his critics
Associated Press ROME — Adored, scorned, impossible to ignore in life, former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi in death drew tributes even from his critics, and ever more lavish praise from admirers,...
View Article‘Hair,’ ‘Everwood’ actor Treat Williams killed in Vermont motorcycle crash
DORSET, Vt. — Actor Treat Williams, whose nearly 50-year career included starring roles in the TV series “Everwood” and the movie “Hair,” died Monday after a motorcycle crash in Vermont, state police...
View ArticleOlympic sprinter Tori Bowie was in labor when she died at home
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Olympic champion sprinter Tori Bowie died from complications of childbirth, according to an autopsy report. Bowie, who won three medals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, was...
View ArticleFuneral funds grow for Antioch 18-year-old shot to death at birthday party
ANTIOCH — An online fundraiser seeking $30,000 to cover the funeral and other expenses for an 18-year-old woman killed at a birthday party shooting that also wounded six others went past the halfway...
View ArticleCormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country...
Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who in prose both dense and brittle took readers from the southern Appalachians to the desert Southwest in such novels as “The Road,” “Blood...
View ArticleMarvel’s John Romita Sr., who co-created Wolverine and worked on Spider-Man,...
Peter Sblendorio | New York Daily News (TNS) John Romita Sr., the Brooklyn-born comic book artist who co-created Marvel staples such as Wolverine and Punisher, has died at age 93, his son announced. A...
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