Former Texas governor Ann Richards dies
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Former Gov. Ann Richards, the witty and flamboyant Democrat who went from homemaker to national political celebrity, died Wednesday night after a battle with cancer, a family spokeswoman said. She was 73.
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Former Texas first lady Nellie  Connally, who was riding in the limousine with President John  F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in 1963, has died at the  age of 87, a family friend said on Saturday.
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Lady Bird Johnson, 94, a first lady whose quiet ambition and determination allowed her to play an influential role in her husband's remarkable political career and to carve out an identity of her own as an advocate for beautifying the national landscape, died yesterday at her home in Austin.
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Johnny Oates, who managed the Texas Rangers to their first three postseason appearances, died early Friday. He was 58. Oates was diagnosed with a brain tumor three years ago. His death was confirmed by John Blake, a former Rangers spokesman who worked for the organization when Oates coached in the '90s.
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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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Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, died today, a family spokeswoman said.
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Alberta's much-beloved lieutenant-governor, Lois Hole, has died, the premier's office said Friday.
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Mormon leader Gordon B. Hinckley died Sunday night at age 97, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints announced.
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Billionaire Marvin Davis, a former oilman who sold his 20th Century Fox studios to Rupert Murdoch in the 1980s, died Saturday at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 79.
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AUSTIN, Texas  - Former Texas first lady Nellie   Connally, who was riding in the limousine with President John   F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in 1963, has died at the   age of 87, a family friend said on Saturday.
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LAKE JACKSON, Texas - A woman has been indicted on negligent homicide charges for allegedly giving her husband a sherry enema that killed him.  Michael Warner, 58, died last May after the enema caused his blood-alcohol level to rise to .47 percent.
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NEW YORK Actor Jerry Orbach, who spent part of his childhood in Illinois, has died of prostate cancer at age 69. Orbach played the sardonic cop Lennie Briscoe on TV&#39;s &quot;Law and Order.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Johnny Oates, the former player and manager who led the Texas Rangers to their first three post-season appearances, died early Friday.
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Law and Order and Dirty Dancing actor Jerry Orbach dies of prostate cancer at the age of 69.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.  - Pauline Gore, mother of former  Vice President Al Gore and widow of the late U.S. Sen. Albert  Gore Sr., died at her home in Tennessee on Wednesday, her  family said. She was 92.
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Lady Bird Johnson, who loved Texas wildflowers almost as much as she loved her husband, the late US president Lyndon Johnson, died Wednesday in Austin, her family said. She was 94.
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A supervisor at BP Plc's giant Texas refinery died on Monday after a lid blew off a unit being worked on at the recovering Texas City plant, sources familiar with refinery operations said on Tuesday.