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Publicist: Founding member of The Doors dies at 74

Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist who was a founding member of The Doors, has died. He was 74. Publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald says in a news release that Manzarek died Monday at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family. He had been stricken by bile duct cancer. Manzarek founded ...

Bernard Waber, children's author, dies at age 91

Bernard Waber, the author of such children's favorites as "The House on East 88th Street" and "Lyle, Lyle Crocodile," has died. Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced Monday that Waber died May 16 at his Long Island home after a long illness. He was 91. Waber's "warmth, energy, artfulness, elegance, and ...

Ohio newspaper editor David Miller dead at 66

Editor David C. Miller of The (Bowling Green) Sentinel-Tribune newspaper in Ohio died Saturday at a hospital in York, Pa., the paper said in a statement. He was 66. Miller was vacationing at Gettysburg, Pa., in late April when he became ill, according to city editor Harold Brown. Miller joined ...

ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2013 AND THEREAFTER - Mary Blakely clears dirt and grass from a 60-year-old temporary tin marker in the "Babyland" section of Onslow Memorial Park in Jacksonville, N.C. on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. The Marine's daughter scoured this and other graveyards for the names of children who may have died because of contaminated water at nearby Camp Lejeune. (AP Photo/Allen Breed)

Marine daughter seeks dignity for 'Devil Dog pups'

As she flipped through the cemetery register, Mary Blakely's eyes filled with tears. On line after line, the entry read simply "Baby Boy" or "Baby Girl," followed by a surname and a burial date. Like Blakely, many of those buried in this lonely section of Onslow Memorial Park known as ...

File-This June 20, 1964 file photo shows Ken Venturi making the final putt on the 18th green during the U.S. Open Golf Championship at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md. The former U.S. Open champion has died just 12 days after he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. He was 82. His son, Matt Venturi, says he died Friday May 17, 2013 in a hospital in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Venturi had been hospitalized the last two months for a spinal infection, pneumonia and an intestinal infection.  (AP Photo/File)

Venturi, US Open champion and CBS analyst, dies

Ken Venturi, who overcame dehydration to win the 1964 U.S. Open and spent 35 years in the booth for CBS Sports, died Friday afternoon. He was 82. His son, Matt Venturi, said he died in a hospital in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Venturi had been hospitalized the last two months for ...

FILE - In this June 1978 file photo, Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla talks to journalists at the Buenos Aires Government Palace, in Argentina. The former Argentine dictator died of natural causes Friday, May 17, 2013, while serving life sentences at the Marcos Paz prison for crimes against humanity. Videla took power in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow citizens in a dirty war to eliminate "subversives." He was 87. (AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia, File)

Argentine dictator Videla dies in prison at age 87

Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who took power over Argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow citizens in a dirty war to eliminate so-called "subversives," died quietly in his sleep Friday while serving life in prison for crimes against humanity. He ...

FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2006, file photo, former NASCAR driver Dick Trickle attends a driver's meeting for the Bodine Bobsled Challenge at the Olympic Center in Lake Placid, N.Y. Authorities in North Carolina said Thursday, May 16, 2013, that Trickle has died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 71. (AP Photo/Mark Goldman, File)

Sheriff: Ex-NASCAR driver Dick Trickle dead at 71

There is that lasting image of Dick Trickle in the Winston 500 lighting up a cigarette while driving his stock car with his knees during a caution lap. He places the cigarette through a hole he carved in his helmet for a quick toke and exhales. The green flag hits ...

Flamboyant Texas swindler Billie Sol Estes dies

Billie Sol Estes, a flamboyant Texas huckster who became one of the most notorious men in America in 1962 when he was accused of looting a federal crop subsidy program, has died. He was 88. Estes, whose name became synonymous with Texas-sized schemes, greed and corruption, died in his sleep ...

FILE - In this Sept. 30, 1979, file photo, New Orleans Saints running back Chuck Muncie (42) breaks a tackle by New York Giants safety Beasley Reece and heads for the end zone to score a touchdown during an NFL football game at the Superdome in New Orleans. The Saints announced Tuesday, May 14, 2013, that  Muncie, a Pro Bowl running back with both the Saints and San Diego Chargers, has died. He was 60.  (AP Photo/File

Former Saints, Chargers RB Chuck Muncie dead at 60

Chuck Muncie, a Pro Bowl running back with both the New Orleans Saints and San Diego Chargers, has died at age 60, the NFL clubs and a family spokesman said Tuesday. Muncie family spokesman Vintage Foster of AMF Media Group in San Ramon, Calif., said Muncie died at his Los ...

FILE - In this May 23,1962 file photo, Billie Sol Estes, left, and his attorney John Cofer of Austin, Tex. are shown as they arrived at the federal court house in El Paso, Texas. Estes, the flamboyant Texas huckster and con man, has died at age 88. Hood County Sheriff Roger Deed says Estes was found dead in his home in Hood County, Texas, by a caregiver early Tuesday, May 14, 2013.  (AP Photo/Ferd Kaufman, File)

Flamboyant Texas swindler Billie Sol Estes dies

Billie Sol Estes' name was synonymous with Texas-sized schemes, greed and corruption. The flamboyant swindler became one of the most notorious men in America in 1962, when he was accused of looting a federal crop subsidy program. But he reigned as the state's king of con men for nearly 50 ...

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