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Correction: Music-Brubeck Tribute story

NEW YORK (AP) — In a May 12 story about a tribute to the late jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, The Associated Press incorrectly gave the name of the Brubeck son who performed on cello. His name is Matthew Brubeck, not Michael Brubeck. Michael Brubeck, the jazz legend's second-oldest son, died ...

Correction: Music-Brubeck Tribute story

In a May 12 story about a tribute to the late jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, The Associated Press incorrectly gave the name of the Brubeck son who performed on cello. His name is Matthew Brubeck, not Michael Brubeck. Michael Brubeck, the jazz legend's second-oldest son, died of a heart attack ...

Longtime head of girls athletic union dies at 90

The longtime head of the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union has died at age 90. The organization announced that E. Wayne Cooley died Saturday. Cooley became executive secretary of the athletic union in 1954. Over the next 48 years, he led an expansion of interscholastic activities from the single ...

FILE - In July 29, 1999 file photo, Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of political activist Malcolm X, leaves Family Court in Yonkers, N.Y., after a detention hearing. In 1997, Shabazz, then 12, set a fire at the Yonkers home of his grandmother, Betty Shabazz, Malcolm Xís widow. She died from severe burns. U.S. officials say Shabazz was killed Thursday, May 10, 2013 in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin, File)

Grandson of Malcolm X killed in Mexico City

Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of political activist Malcolm X, died in Mexico City after a violent dispute in a bar, Mexican authorities said Friday. He was 28. City prosecutors are investigating the attack that sent Shabazz to a nearby hospital where he died Thursday of blunt-force trauma injuries. United States officials ...

This undated image provided by Dow Jones shows Alan Abelson. Alan Abelson, an editor and columnist at the business publication Barron’s for 57 years, died Thursday, May 9, 2013, at the age of 87.

Longtime Barron's writer Alan Abelson dies at 87

Alan Abelson, who spent 57 years as a writer, editor and chief columnist for financial news publication Barron's, has died at the age of 87. The author of the long-running Up and Down Wall Street column died Thursday of a heart attack, according to Sara Blask, a spokeswoman for Dow ...

Former Pa. Gov. George Leader dies at 95

Former Pennsylvania Gov. George M. Leader, the son of a chicken farmer who was elected to the state's highest office before he turned 40, died Thursday after a brief illness. He was 95. Two grandchildren were at Leader's side when he died at 5 a.m. at his home at the ...

FILE -  In this Feb. 27, 2011 file photo Ottavio Missoni, right, and his daughter Angela acknowledge the applause of the audience after presenting their Missoni Fall/Winter 2011 collection, in Milan, Italy. Italian fashion company Missoni says its co-founder, Ottavio Missoni, has died in his home earlier on Thursday, May 9, 2013 in northern Italy. Missoni, who was 92, founded the iconic fashion brand of zigzagged-patterned knitwear along with his wife, Rosita, in 1953. The Missonis are a family fashion dynasty, with the couple’s children and their offspring involved in expanding the brand. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

Patriarch of fashion brand Missoni dies in Italy

Ottavio Missoni, the patriarch of the iconic fashion brand of zigzag-patterned knitwear that helped launch Italian ready-to-wear and turn Milan into a fashion mecca, died Thursday just months after his eldest son disappeared without a trace. He was 92. Missoni "passed away serenely" in his home in the town of ...

Alyne Payton dies after long illness

Alyne S. Payton, the mother of the late NFL Hall of Fame running back and Chicago Bears star Walter Payton, died Monday at Baptist Medical Center in Jackson. She was 87. Family members say she died after a long illness. Officials with Westhaven Memorial Funeral Home say services are scheduled ...

In this 1966 file photo, cast members of the television show "The Monkees," from top left, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, from lower left, Micky Dolenz, and Peter Tork pose next to their customized Pontiac GTO. The television show originally ran from Sept. 12, 1966 to March 25, 1968 and made the stars of the series teenage heartthrobs.

'Monkeemobile' designer Dean Jeffries dies at 80

A celebrated car customizer who painted James Dean's Porsche and made the "Monkeemobile" for "The Monkees" TV show has died. Dean Jeffries was 80. His son, Kevin, tells the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/1913hRl ) that Jeffries died in his sleep on Saturday at his Hollywood home. In 1955, Jeffries custom ...

'Young and Restless' star Jeanne Cooper dies at 84

Jeanne Cooper, the enduring soap opera star who played grande dame Katherine Chancellor for nearly four decades on "The Young and the Restless," has died. She was 84. Cooper died Wednesday morning in her sleep, her son the actor Corbin Bernsen wrote on Facebook. The family confirmed the death to ...

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