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Gospel music star Monroe Hopper dies in NC
One of the founding members of the North Carolina gospel group The Hopper Brothers has died. Group publicist Aaron Crisler said that 86-year-old Monroe Hopper died Friday in Madison. No cause of death was given. Claude Hopper founded the group in 1957, bringing in Monroe Hopper and three more of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Longtime Royals broadcaster White dies
Longtime Kansas City Royals broadcaster Fred White died Wednesday of complications from cancer. He was 76. The Royals were informed of White's passing by his son, Joe. White died in hospice one day after the team announced his retirement after 40 years working for the organization. White was the sports ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Irish stage actor Dowling dead at age 83
Stage actor Vincent G. Dowling, who had a long-time association with Ireland's national theater company and performed several times in the Reagan White House, has died in Massachusetts at age 83. His wife, Olwen O'Herlihy Dowling, said Dowling died Friday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston after complications following surgery. ...
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