Helen Copley, Newspaper Publisher, Dies at 81
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Helen Copley, former chairman of  privately held newspaper chain the Copley Press and publisher  of the San Diego Union-Tribune, has died at the age of 81, the  newspaper said on Thursday.
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An 82-year-old woman dies in a house fire in Merseyside.
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Author and activist Susan Sontag has died in New York. She was 71. News of her death today came from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan.
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usan Mary Alsop, who proclaimed that she saw &quot;no future in being an ordinary person&quot; and became a celebrated political hostess and later an author, died on Wednesday at her home in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington. She was 86.
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If we published newspapers like Sheila Copps writes books, we&#39;d have been out of business a long time ago. In this business, we are obliged to write fact, not fiction.
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PORTSMOUTH, NH - Betty Hill, whose tale of being abducted by aliens launched her to fame and became the subject of a bestselling book and television movie, has died.
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Magazine photojournalist Carl Mydans, a pioneer of photo essays at Life magazine in the 1930s, has died at age 97.
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Edward Behr, a noted British foreign correspondent and writer who penned books on history, good eating and his career as a journalist, died over the weekend in Paris, his family said Sunday. He was 81.
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Social critic and author Susan  Sontag, one of America's leading intellectuals, died on Tuesday  at age 71 at New York's Sloan Kettering hospital after a battle  with leukemia, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site.
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CONCORD -- Carola (Rosenthal) Domar, 84, of Concord, a former social worker, died of breast cancer Sept. 24 at the Wayside Hospice in Wayland.
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Writer and broadcaster Pete McCarthy, author of the award-winning travel books "McCarthy's Bar" and "The Road to McCarthy," has died, his publishers said. He was 51.
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Daily Mail sports journalist Ian Wooldridge has died in hospital aged 75, the newspaper says.
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The Daily Mail's editor pays tribute to the "brilliant" diary writer Nigel Dempster, who has died aged 65.
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(Dec. 28) -- Author and activist Susan Sontag has died. She was 71 years old. News of her death came from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City Tuesday morning.
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Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, a pioneer of the modern historical romance novel marked by strong heroines, detailed period settings and steamy sex scenes, has died, her family and publisher said Tuesday. She was 68.
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Alan Horton, senior vice president of newspapers for EW Scripps Co., will retire from the company Dec. 31,. Horton, 61, has been affiliated with Scripps since 1965, when he took his first job out of college as a reporter for The Cincinnati Post.
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British jazz singer and author George  Melly died on Thursday at the age of 80, his wife Diana said in  a statement.