Ex-Houston mayor collapses at Lay funeral
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Former Houston Mayor Bob Lanier collapsed Wednesday as he arrived at the funeral of Enron Corp. founder Ken Lay, who he had supported at the businessman&#039;s fraud trial.
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A supervisor at BP Plc's Texas City, Texas, refinery died on Monday of head injuries suffered when a heavy metal lid blew off a unit during a restart, his family's lawyer and BP said on Tuesday.
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A private jet on its way to pick up former President Bush at a Houston airport crashed in bad weather on Monday, killing the three crew members on board, officials said.
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City workers on Saturday prepared for the body of Mayor Bob O'Connor to lie in state, a day after the city leader died from a rare form of brain cancer at age 61.
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The sporting community in Abu Dhabi yesterday mourned the death of the President, His Highness Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, a pioneer in promoting and setting up
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Indonesia's former president Suharto, who ruled with an iron fist for 32 years, died on Sunday, a senior police official told reporters at the hospital where he was being treated.
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Dennis Johnson, a five-time NBA All-Star and integral part of the Celtics' 1984 and 1986 championship teams, died yesterday, collapsing after coaching Boston's NBA Development League affiliate, the Austin Toros, in practice in Austin, Texas.
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Celtics greats Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Danny Ainge reunite in grief Friday along with about 1,000 other mourners at Dennis Johnson's funeral.
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November 23, 2004 -- HOUSTON - A private jet that was en route to Houston to pick up for mer President George HW Bush clipped a light pole and crashed yesterday as it approached Hobby Airport in thick fog, killing all three people aboard.
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Nellie Connally, the former Texas first lady who was riding in President Kennedy's limousine when he was assassinated, has died, a family friend said Saturday. The 87-year-old was the last living person who had been part of that fateful Dallas drive.
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Enron Corp. founder Ken Lay, who was   convicted in May of fraud and conspiracy for his part in the   Houston-based company's collapse into bankruptcy in 2001, has   died of a heart attack at his vacation home in Colorado, a   Houston television station reported on Wednesday.
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A Houston teen who survived a gruesome racial assault last year committed suicide when he leaped from a cruise ship this week, according to a preliminary autopsy conducted Thursday.
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Indonesia's ex-leader, 86, Suharto dies after suffering multiple organ failure, police and hospital authorities say.
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The mayor went to Queens to reach out to relatives and communities affected by the death.
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Former International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Juan Antonio Samaranch has been taken to hospital in Madrid after collapsing at a promotional event in the Spanish capital on Wednesday.
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NAUDERO, Pakistan  - Thousands of mourners began the funeral on Friday of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, whose assassination plunged the nuclear-armed country into one of the worst crises in its 60-year history.
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Wild animals do for SS Bajwa Delhi's deputy mayor SS Bajwa died yesterday as a result of "serious head injuries" after falling from his first-floor terrace while attempting to fight off a pack of wild monkeys, the BBC reports.â¦