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Little Rock 9 member Jefferson Thomas dies in Ohio (AP)
AP – Jefferson Thomas, who as a teenager was among nine black students to integrate a Little Rock high school in the nation’s first major battle over school segregation, has died. He was 68.
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Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Paul Conrad dies at 86 (AP)
AP – Paul Conrad used his pencil like a weapon. His long lines and jagged angles seemed to point directly at the leaders he deemed charlatans and fools in need of deflating.
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William Saxbe, attorney general under Nixon, dies (AP)
AP – William Saxbe, a Republican maverick who became the fourth attorney general to serve under President Richard M. Nixon and presided during the Watergate investigation, died Tuesday. He was 94.
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Giants hero Thomson dies after long illness
Bobby Thomson, whose “shot heard ’round the world” capped a best-of-three playoff and the Giants’ miracle comeback to win the 1951 National League pennant over the Dodgers, died Monday night at his home in Savannah, Georgia. He died peacefully according to his daughter.
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‘Miracle’ in Colombia crash: Woman dies, 130 live (AP)
AP – A Boeing 737 jetliner carrying 131 people crashed in a thunderstorm and broke apart as it slid onto the runway on a Caribbean island on Monday. The region’s governor said it was a miracle that only one person died.
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‘Miracle’ in Colombia jet crash: 1 dies, 130 live (AP)
AP – A Boeing 737 jetliner carrying 131 people crashed in a thunderstorm and broke into three pieces as it slid onto the runway on a Colombian island on Monday. The region’s governor said it was a miracle that only one person died.
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Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens dies in plane crash (AP)
AP – A spokesman for the family of Ted Stevens says the former senator has died in a plane crash in Alaska.
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