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Conductor dies after collapsing during Bach performance
Los Angeles Times
He later died, officials said. Vincent LaGuardia, 68, was the longtime conductor of the Arapahoe Philharmonic, a small classical group in Littleton, Colo. LaGuardia collapsed about two-thirds of the way through the Bach piece, a well-known organ ...
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Los Angeles Times
Zoricic's father after Canadian skier dies in skicross race: 'He was really happy'
Washington Post
The 29-year-old Zoricic died at a World Cup skicross event Saturday in Grindelwald, Switzerland. Zoricic went wide over the final jump and crashed hard into safety nets lining the side of the course. In a statement, Zoricic's father said there were no ...
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7-year-old daughter of Marysville police officer dies after shooting
The Seattle Times
The young daughter of a Marysville police officer died Sunday after her sibling shot her a day earlier with a gun found inside the parents' van. Seattle Times staff and The Associated Press I feel silly having to say this but apparently some people ...
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F. Sherwood Rowland, Nobel Prize winner who warned of CFCs danger, dies at 84
Boston Herald
By Shari Roan / Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — F. Sherwood Rowland, the University of California, Irvine chemistry professor who warned the world that man-made chemicals could erode the ozone layer, has died. He was 84. Rowland, known as Sherry, ...
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Jean Giraud, or Moebius, dies at 73; master comics artist
Chicago Tribune
Jean Giraud, an enduring figure in European comics whose fantasy and sci-fi work — which he signed with his alias, Moebius — deeply influenced alien-world imagery throughout pop culture, has died. He was 73. Giraud died Friday night or Saturday ...
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Chicago Tribune
Nobel scientist who warned of thinning ozone dies
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — F. Sherwood Rowland, the Nobel prize-winning chemist who sounded the alarm on the thinning of the Earth's ozone layer and crusaded against the use of man-made chemicals that were harming earth's atmospheric blanket, hasdied.
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The Associated Press
Japan property tycoon Minoru Mori dies at age 77
USA TODAY
By Mari Yamaguchi, AP TOKYO – Property tycoon Minoru Mori, who was one of Japan's most influential developers and built China's tallest building, has died. By Eugene Hoshiko, AP Built in 2008 by Japan real estate tycoon Minori Mori, China's tallest ...
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USA TODAY
Japan property tycoon Minoru Mori dies at 77
Fox News
TOKYO – Property tycoon Minoru Mori, who was one of Japan's most influential developers and built China's tallest building, hasdied. Company officials said Monday that Mori, chairman of Mori Building Co., died last Thursday of heart failure.
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Baby Dies of Herpes in Ritual Circumcision By Orthodox Jews
WCTI12.com
In 2003 and 2004, three babies, including a set of twins, were infected with Type 1 herpes; the cases were linked to circumcision, and one boy died. The mohel who performed the procedures, Yitzchok Fischer, was later banned from doing circumcisions, ...
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Jay McMullen, CBS Investigative Journalist, Dies at 90
New York Times
Jay McMullen, whose career as an investigative journalist for CBS News included early uses of hidden cameras and undercover reporting, diedSaturday at a hospice in Greenwich, Conn. He was 90. His death was confirmed by his family.
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F. Sherwood Rowland dies at 84; UC Irvine professor won Nobel Prize
Los Angeles Times
(Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times / October 17, 1997) By Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times F. Sherwood Rowland, the UC Irvine chemistry professor who warned the world that man-made chemicals could erode the ozone layer, has died. He was 84.
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Los Angeles Times
Indian teen dies after being beaten
FOXSports.com
An Indian teenager died Sunday after being beaten by a group of boys when he dropped a catch during a game of cricket earlier this month. Saif Ali Shaikh, 16, was returning from visiting a mosque in Mumbai on March 2 when he joined a game of cricket ...
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Moebius, aka comic book artist Jean Giraurd, dies at 73
New York Daily News
PARIS — French comics artist Jean Giraud, known by fans from Hollywood to Japan as Moebius and the creator of unsettling, eye-opening fantasy worlds in print and on film, has died at 73. Publishing house Dargaud announced the death in a statement and ...
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New York Daily News
F. Sherwood Rowland Dead: Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Dies At 84
Huffington Post
LOS ANGELES (AP) — F. Sherwood Rowland, the Nobel prize-winning chemist who sounded the alarm on the thinning of the Earth's ozone layer, hasdied. He was 84. Rowland died Saturday at his home of complications from Parkinson's disease, the dean of the ...
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Man dies, 3 others wounded in Maine shootings
Boston.com
One man has died and three others were wounded as a result shootings outside in a Down East home. Police say 32-year-old Lawrence “Randy'' Sinclair of Ellsworth died Sunday at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, where he was taken with 34-year-old ...
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Newlywed Yakima cancer patient dies
The Seattle Times
A Yakima cancer patient who fell in love with another cancer patient and married has died. The Associated Press No comments have been posted to this article. A Yakima cancer patient who fell in love with another cancer patient and married has died.
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Officer's daughter, 7, dies after being shot
HeraldNet
By Gale Fiege, Herald Writer STANWOOD -- The 7-year-old daughter of a Marysville police officer has died after being shot by a younger sibling. The girldied at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle early Sunday. The shooting happened Saturday afternoon ...
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Oregonian editorial page editor dies
The Associated Press
(AP) — The editorial page editor of The Oregonian, a longtime staff member, has died of a heart attack, the newspaper reported. Robert J. Caldwell, 63, who joined the paper as a copy editor in 1983, died Saturday. The Oregonian (http://bit.ly/xwh3qh) ...
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Miner dies at Alpha mine in West Virginia
Chicago Tribune
Last year, Alpha acquired Massey Energy, which had operated the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia, at which 29 miners died in an explosion in 2010 -- the worst US mine disaster in four decades. According to the federal Mine Safety and Health ...
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Daughter of Washington police officer dies after being shot by sibling: reports
New York Daily News
By Philip Caulfield / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS The daughter of a police officer in Washington State died on Sunday after being accidentally shot by her sibling the day before. A 7-year-old daughter of a Seattle-area cop is dead after being shot on Saturday...
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New York Daily News
Canada's Nik Zoricic Dies After Skicross Cash
ClaimsJournal.com
By GRAHAM DUNBAR | March 12, 2012 A Canadian racer died in a World Cup skicross event Saturday, tumbling through safety nets in what ski authorities called a “freak accident.” It was the second death in less than two months of a freestyle skier from ...
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Minoru Mori, Japanese Real Estate Magnate, Dies
Wall Street Journal
By WILLIAM SPOSATO TOKYO—Minoru Mori, whose entrepreneurial risk-taking helped transform the central Tokyo skyline and which set him apart within Japan's staid real-estate world, has died at age 77, his company said Monday. Mr. Mori had been chairman ...
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Wall Street Journal
Woman Dies Inside Clothing Donation Drop Box
PerezHilton.com
She died with her head outside the box and her body inside. Creepy… Motivations for the attempted theft could have stemmed for a 2007 fire that engulfed her home, leaving her family with very few belongings. She leaves behind a 16 year old son. Whoa!
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Man dies, 3 others wounded in Maine shootings
WGME
Tacy is cq LAMOINE, Maine (AP) -- One man has died and three others were wounded as a result shootings outside in a Down East home. Police say 32-year-old Lawrence "Randy" Sinclair of Ellsworth died Sunday at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, ...
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Longtime MLB umpire Harry Wendelstedt dies at 73
Houston Chronicle
Harry Wendelstedt has died after an extended illness. He was 73. Major League Baseball said Wendelstedt died Friday, March 9, 2012, in Ormond Beach, Fla. He had been diagnosed several years ago with a brain tumor. Photo: Mary Butkus / AP FILE - In this ...
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Japanese Real Estate Magnate Minoru Mori Dies At 77
Wall Street Journal
By William Sposato Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Minoru Mori, whose entrepreneurial risk-taking helped transform the central Tokyo skyline and which set him apart from Japan's staid real-estate world, hasdied at age 77, ...
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Robert Temple Ayres dies at 98; artist created flaming 'Bonanza' map
Washington Post
Mr. Ayres died Feb. 25 at his home in Cherry Valley, Calif., three days after making a final pilgrimage to view his iconic artwork, said his daughter, Sharon Richards. He was 98 and had a heart ailment. Mr. Ayres's original Ponderosa map had hung for ...
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Restaurant owner Chris Madrid dies
WOAI
SAN ANTONIO- The owner of an iconic San Antonio hamburger joint has died. Sixty one year old Chris Madrid died of natural causes at his far north side home. He was pronounced dead shortly before 6am Sunday morning. As news of his death spread his ...
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Lawrence Anthony, Baghdad Zoo Savior, Dies at 61
New York Times
Lawrence Anthony, who abandoned a career in insurance and real estate to play Noah to the world's endangered species, most spectacularly in rushing to the smoldering Baghdad Zoo after the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, died on March 2 in ...
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New York Times
Aqua Caliente tribal leader Milanovich dies at 69
San Francisco Chronicle
(AP) -- Southern California tribal leader Richard Milanovich, who oversaw the Agua Caliente tribe's nearly three-decade rise from poverty to casino riches, has died of cancer at 69. Milanovich died Sunday at a Rancho Mirage hospital.
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Pioneer of Ozone Concern Dies
Daily Beast
The chemistry professor who warned the world that aerosol chemicals were destroying the ozone layer has died at age 84. F. Sherwood Rowland of University of California, Irvine, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995. He discovered—two decades before ...
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Daily Beast
Police officer's daughter dies after being accidentally shot by brother
Fox News
The 7-year-old daughter of a Washington state police officer diedSunday after being accidentally shot by her brother, Q13 Fox reports. The Snohomish County Sheriff's Office said the siblings were in a silver van when the brother found the gun in the ...
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Lockport motorcyclist dies in crash near Channahon
Chicago Tribune
An autopsy is scheduled today for a Lockport motorcyclist who died Sunday night after crashing in southwest suburban Channahon Township in Will County, authorities said. Karl D. Hodges, 24, was driving a motorcycle that crashed on westbound Front ...
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Woman Dies Inside Clothing Donation Drop Box
PerezHilton.com
She died with her head outside the box and her body inside. Creepy… Motivations for the attempted theft could have stemmed for a 2007 fire that engulfed her home, leaving her family with very few belongings. She leaves behind a 16 year old son. Whoa!
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Girl, 5, dies after family hit by motorbikes in Weymouth
BBC News
A five-year-old girl has died after a collision in Dorset which also injured her grandmother and two sisters. The girls, aged five, six and 10, were crossing the A354 in Weymouth with their grandmother, 72, on Sunday when they were struck by two ...
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Harry Wendelstedt, Major League Baseball umpire, dies at 73
Washington Post
Harry Wendelstedt, a retired 33-year major league umpire who also nurtured a new generation of the game's arbiters for more than 30 years, died March 9 at a hospital in Daytona Beach, Fla. He was 73 and had brain cancer. Mr. Wendelstedt, who officiated ...
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French comics artist Jean Giraud, known as Moebius, dies at age 73
TheCelebrityCafe.com
Legendary French comic book artist Jean Giraud, who was best known under the name Moebius, died late last week at the age of 73. The Los Angeles Times reports that Dargaud, which publishes his work, confirmed Giraud's death. He died Friday night or ...
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Indian teen dies after being beaten
FOXSports.com
An Indian teenager died Sunday after being beaten by a group of boys when he dropped ... Six Ohio State women's lacrosse players were taken to the hospital over the weekend f... Titans owner Bud Adams wants to sign Peyton Manning and says he will do ...
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Brooksville man dies after losing control of motorcycle
Tampabay.com
A man died early Sunday after losing control of his motorcycle, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The crash happened around 12:40 am on Dempsey Road, west of the Croom Wildlife Management Area, troopers said. Richard Dale Outten, 50, ...
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Owner of iconic burger joint, Chris Madrid's, dies at 61
KENS 5 TV
by KENS 5 Staff Chris Madrid died on Sunday at his north-side home. Authorities have not yet determined the cause of his death, but they don't suspect foul play. Madrid opened the iconic Blanco Road burger joint in 1977. The news is not only sad but ...
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Counterculture comic Peter Bergman dies at 72
Tulsa World
A longtime Los Angeles resident, Bergman died of complications of leukemia Friday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, according to his former wife, Maryedith Burrell. Bergman was hosting an alternative, late-night talk show on the Los Angeles ...
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Man injured in Midwest storms dies; death toll reaches 13
Weary residents may get some good news Thursday as the monster storm system that already battered many Midwestern states and caused 12 deaths is...
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Scholar known for “Death of God” dies « The Deacon's Bench
And he spent a good deal of the rest of his life — he died on Feb. 28 at 87 — adding air quotes with his fingers around the word God, which was what he had...
www.patheos.com/.../scholar-known-for-death-of-god-dies/
'The Monkees' Singer Davy Jones Dies at 66
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William Hamilton, Known for 'Death of God' Idea, Dies at 87 ...
Taking part in a scholarly discussion among academic theologians won Mr. Hamilton mainstream fame — and notoriety — after a Time magazine cover.
www.nytimes.com/.../william-hamilton-known-for-death-of-g...

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