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12-year-old daughter of slain agent: "I love you, Daddy."
Sun-Sentinel.comGabriela Pettit tried to tell the hundreds of law enforcement officers present this afternoon how much her father meant to her, and how she felt after seeing him gunned down outside a post office earlier this week. But the 12-year-old daughter of...Tags: Assault, Police, Charlie Crist, Broward Community College, Pembroke Pines
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Folk singer, songwriter whose music included hit song 'Walk Right In' dies at 74
The Associated PressErik Darling, the reedy-voiced guitarist and banjo player who deftly stepped in when Pete Seeger left the pioneering folk music group The Weavers, has died after battling lymphoma. He was 74. He died Sunday in Chapel Hill, not far from Raleigh....Tags: North Carolina, Weston (Fairfield, Connecticut), Music, Harry Belafonte, Music Industry
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U.S. death toll in Afghanistan war reaches 500
KABUL, Afghanistan - The deadliest three months for American forces in Afghanistan have pushed the U.S. death toll to at least 500, forcing a war long overshadowed by Iraq back into the headlines. Faced with larger, more sophisticated militant attacks,... -
Murder charged in shooting death
A Portsmouth man has been arrested and charged in a shooting death from June. Mark Wallace White, 18, has been charged with murder in the death of Montale Maurice Smith, a 27-year-old Portsmouth resident who was shot to death June 14 at a residence on...Tags: Crimes, Police Arrests, Police, Prosecution, Maurice Smith
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Couple's love for pet inspires generosity
Judy and Henry Morris of Newport News have contributed $5,000 to the Peninsula SPCA — one of the largest individual gifts to the group in recent history. The money was given in memory of their pet, Little Bear, who was 11 years old when he died...Tags: Animals, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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Deadliest 3 months for U.S.
KABUL — The deadliest three months for American forces in Afghanistan have pushed the U.S. death toll to at least 500, forcing a war long overshadowed by Iraq back into the headlines. Larger, more sophisticated militant attacks have also caused a...Tags: International Military Interventions, Iraq War, Wars and Interventions
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Folk music songwriter, member of Weavers
Associated PressRALEIGH, N.C. — Erik Darling, the reedy-voiced guitarist and banjo player who deftly stepped in when Pete Seeger left the pioneering folk music group The Weavers, has died after battling lymphoma. He was 74. He died Sunday in Chapel Hill, near...Tags: North Carolina, Music, Folk Music, Pete Seeger
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Musikfest performer Robert Hazard dies
Of The Morning CallRobert Hazard's sudden death on Tuesday at age 59 ends a long love affair with the greater Lehigh Valley. The Philadelphia-raised troubadour, who died in Boston after surgery for pancreatic cancer, was scheduled to play shows today at Musikfest. His 5 p....Tags: Popular Music, Jim Thorpe, Music, Music Industry, Cyndi Lauper
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08/08: Deaths in Central Florida
BREVARD VIRGINIA PENT, 91, Titusville, died Wednesday. North Brevard Funeral Home, Titusville. LEONARD PETKOFF, 91, Melbourne, died Tuesday. Brownlie-Maxwell Funeral Home, Melbourne. DAVID R. RINDGE, 74, Melbourne, died Thursday. Davis-Seawinds...Tags: Lake Mary, Conway, Melbourne, Titusville, Ocoee
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'Chris & Don' is a romance for the ages
(A) The complexities that attended writer Christopher Isherwood and artist Don Bachardy's early romance aren't hard to grasp. There was the three-decade age difference, Isherwood being 49 when he met the 18-year-old Bachardy on a Santa Monica, Calif.,...Tags: Santa Monica, Christopher Isherwood, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Movies, Paul Bowles
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Hundreds Attend Memorial Service For Fallen Fire Chief
A procession of more than 150 fire engines and other emergency vehicles drove from the Puyallup Fairgrounds to the Christian Faith Center in Federal Way for the service for East Pierce County Fire and Rescue Chief Dan Packer.
Along the procession...Tags: Fires, Wildfires
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William McLaughlin, nightclub owner and developer, dies at 82
Chicago Tribune reporterWilliam McLaughlin ran the Club Laurel on Broadway, a swinging Chicago night spot that featured everything from cha-cha nights to sets by such jazz greats as Count Basie and Stan Kenton during its heyday in the 1950s and early '60s. Later a Lake County...Tags: Cancer, Count Basie, Theater, Music Theater, Christianity
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