Bluegrass Dobro artist "Uncle Josh" dead at 79
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Veteran Dobro musician  Burkett Howard Graves, known as country music's "Uncle Josh,"  has died at 79, his family said on Monday.
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Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born opera diva who was a global icon of can-do American culture with her dazzling voice, bubbly personality and management moxie in the arts world, died Monday of cancer, her manager said. She was 78. It had been revealed just last month that Sills was gravely ill with inoperable lung cancer. She died about 9 p.m. Monday, said her manager, Edgar Vincent.
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U.S. officials have agreed to investigate the death of an 81-year-old Haitian pastor who died last month in the custody of immigration authorities, a U.S. congressman said Thursday.
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Johnny Oates, the only manager to lead the Texas Rangers to the playoffs, died Friday at the age of 58. Oates was diagnosed with a brain tumor three years ago and doctors at the
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By Keith Lawrence, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Feb. 3--Wade Mainer brought the house down when he performed at the River of Music Party's Legends Night in 2005.   He was 98 then.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Former Texas Rangers and Baltimore Orioles manager Johnny Oates has died, three years after being diagnosed with a brain tumor.
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Jerry Scoggins, who sang the theme tune to US TV show The Beverly Hillbillies, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 93.
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Jerry Scoggins, who sang "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" that introduced the comical Clampett clan on "The Beverly Hillbillies," has died. He was 93.
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Rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard, whose  criminal lifestyle and strange behavior overshadowed his work  as one of the founding members of rap collective Wu-Tang Clan,  collapsed and died in New York Saturday, his record label said.
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Rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard, equally  well known for his scrapes with the law and offbeat antics as  for his work with rap collective Wu-Tang Clan, died suddenly in  New York Saturday of unknown causes, his record label said.
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By Steve Vantreese, The Paducah Sun, Ky. Jun. 16-- -- Doug Travis' 60 years of service as a conservation educator ended the way he always said they would. He died.
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John W. Peterson, who authored more than 1,000 gospel hymns in a musical career that began before World War II, has died. He was 84. Peterson died Sept. 20 of cancer at his home in Scottsdale.
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Ol&#39; Dirty Bastard, a founding member of the WuâTang Clan and one of the most eccentric personalities in hipâhop, died of unknown causes on Saturday in New York.
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New York lost one of its signature artists Tuesday night when Broadway, movie and TV actor Jerry Orbach, who played hard-bitten Detective Lenny Briscoe in the NBC series &quot;Law and Order,&quot; died
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.  - Country music singer Skeeter  Davis, a veteran of Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, died on Sunday,  according to a family friend.
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Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born opera diva who was a global icon of can-do American culture with her dazzling voice, bubbly personality and management moxie in the arts world, died July 2 of cancer, her manager said. She was 78.
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He died after a prolonged illness, family sources said. He was 80.