Former Mass. governor, NFL player Ed King dies
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Edward King, a former Massachusetts   governor who once played professional football for the Buffalo   Bills, died on Monday after undergoing brain surgery following   a fall at his family home. He was 81.
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Bob Mitinger, a linebacker for the San Diego Chargers in the 1960s, died at 64.
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DENNIS, Mass. -- Boston Marathon legend, and two-time race champion, Johnny Kelly, has died at the age of 97. The nephew of the former Olympian, Dave DeLong, said Kelly died Wednesday night at a nursing home on Cape Cod.
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William E. Peters, a journalist who wrote one of the first national articles on Martin Luther King Jr., has died. He was 85.
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LUMBERTON, Texas -- Ernie Holmes, a two-time Super Bowl winner and an anchor of Pittsburgh's "Steel Curtain" defense, has died in a car crash. He was 59.
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Deval Patrick, the winner of Massachusetts' Democratic gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, would be the state's first black governor if he wins in November. The state's voters were already the first to elect an African American to the Senate. Who was the first popularly elected African American to serve in the Senate?  Hiram Revels Blanche Bruce Sinclair Weeks Edward W. Brooke III
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WALTHAM -- Before the beginning of the 2004 season, Brockton coach Peter Colombo expressed his desire to wrest the title of &quot;Massachusetts football powerhouse&quot; from Everett and restore the Boxers to their position as the premier high school football program in the state.
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Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt, an NFL visionary who helped foster the NFL-AFL merger, dies Thursday at age 74.
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Reggie White, the former Eagles and Packers star known around the football world as `The Minister of Defense,&#39; died of an apparent heart attack, just a week after his 43rd birthday.
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Ty Law has been paid a $106,000 workout bonus by the Patriots, according to his agent, Carl Poston , though he again chose not to participate in the team's offseason conditioning program, instead working out with noted track coach Bob Kersee .
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Former NFL fullback Craig &quot;Ironhead&quot; Heyward died Saturday after a 7 1/2-year fight with a recurring brain tumor, his son&#039;s high school football coach said. He was 39.
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Veteran receiver Randy Moss caught one of three touchdown passes from quarterback Tom Brady to help the New England Patriots beat the New York Jets 38-14 on the opening Sunday of the NFL season.
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Actor Jerry Orbach, star of Law and Order, has died of prostate cancer, a representative of the show said. The 69-year-old, who also starred in Dirty Dancing and Last Exit to Brooklyn, revealed he was battling cancer in early December.
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Michael E. Jesanis counts as one of the most powerful men in Massachusetts -- at least as the one responsible for delivering power to 1.3 million customers of Massachusetts Electric Co. , the state's biggest utility. Now in his 21st year of working for companies that are now part of National Grid USA, including Mass. Electric, the 48-year-old Hopkinton native ...
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NEW YORK, USA -- NFL great Reggie White died Sunday morning at his North Carolina home of a massive heart attack. He was 43. White, the league&#39;s former all-time sack leader, was a 13-time Pro Bowl selection.
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Bob King, the architect of New Mexico basketball who never had a losing season while coaching the Lobos for 10 seasons, died Friday at 81.
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By Lisa Wangsness and Beth Daley, The Boston Globe  Mar. 5--As a gubernatorial candidate last year, Deval Patrick delighted  environmentalists with a pledge to spend an extra $10 million his first year  in office to begin fixing the state's long-neglected parks system.