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Champion skier Burke dies from Jan. 10 injuries

Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke died Thursday morning at the University of Utah Hospital from injuries sustained during a Jan. 10 training run on the Park city superpipe course. She was 29.

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National radio: Guinea-Bissau president dies (AP)

FILE In this June 30, 2011 file photo, Guinea-Bissau President Malam Bacai Sanha listens during a session of the 17th African Union Summit at the Sipopo Conference Center, outside Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. National radio in the tiny West African nation of Guinea-Bissau is reporting on Monday, Jan. 9, 2012 that the president has died. No other immediate details were given Monday, but President Malam Bacai Sanha has been known for his frequent hospitalizations abroad.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)AP – President Malam Bacai Sanha, who was elected in this tiny, coup-prone nation on Africa’s western coast about two years ago after the previous leader was assassinated, died Monday at a Paris hospital after a lengthy hospitalization.


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Police: Utah officer dies following shootout (AP)

AP – Gunfire erupted as anti-drug police served a search warrant in an Ogden neighborhood, fatally wounding one officer and injuring five other police and a suspect, authorities said.

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Bronx baby dies after domestic dispute

A three-month-old baby girl died during an incident in which her father assaulted her mother and grandmother, police said Tuesday.

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Former WABC host Samuels dies at 69 

Years ago, when she was a left wing host on WABC, Lynn Samuels used to do a change-of-pace Christmas Eve show in which, among other things, she invited listeners to sing Christmas carols. This year on Christmas Eve, Samuels died. She was 69.

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Wal-Mart pulls formula after baby dies in Missouri (AP)

This photo provided Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011, by the Holman Howe Funeral Home, shows Avery Cornett of Lebanon, Mo., who died Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011. Federal health agencies are testing samples of liquid and powdered infant formula and some distilled water used to prepare the powder by the Missouri parents of a 10-day-old boy who died from an apparent bacterial infection. Cornett died Sunday night after he was fed Enfamil Newborn powder bought at a Walmart store in Lebanon, Mo. The store has stopped selling the product, and the company pulled a batch of the infant formula from more than 3,000 of its stores nationwide. (AP Photo/Holman Howe Funeral Home)AP – Wal-Mart and health officials awaited tests Thursday on a batch of powdered infant formula that was removed from more than 3,000 stores nationwide after a Missouri newborn who consumed it died from a rare infection.


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Havel, hero of anti-communist revolution, dies (AP)

AP – The end of Czechoslovakia’s totalitarian regime was called the Velvet Revolution because of how smooth the transition seemed: Communism dead in a matter of weeks, without a shot fired. But for Vaclav Havel, it was a moment he helped pay for with decades of suffering and struggle.

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