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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
'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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