Terry Melcher, Shaper of Calif. Surf Sound, Dies
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LOS ANGELES, Calif.  - Terry Melcher, a producer,  composer and songwriter who worked with the Beach Boys and  helped shape the '60s era California surf music sound, has  died, according to his publicist. He was 62.
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Al Shugart, a pioneer in the  computer disk drive industry and one of Silicon Valley's most  colorful entrepreneurs, has died. He was 76.
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Dan Fogelberg, whose hits "Leader of the Band" and "Same Old Lang Syne" helped define the soft-rock era in the 1970s, died at his home in Maine after battling prostate cancer.
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By San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  May 30--For the past week, residents of the Bay Area have been transfixed by the plight of the two injured humpback whales that got lost in the fresh waters of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
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Terry Melcher, a key architect of the California pop sound of the &#39;60s as a record producer, songwriter and artist, died Friday at age 62 after a long struggle with melanoma.
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MONTEREY, Calf.Â -- An invasive water mold has killed thousands of coastal oaks on California's Central Coast and will soon wipe out an ancient species, the tan oak, from Monterey County.
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Howard Keel, musical and television star died Sunday at his home in Palm Desert, California, from colon cancer, he was 85. Born Harold Clifford Leek, the tall and muscular baritone starred in several major
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Syd Thrift, who spent nearly 50   years in professional baseball, has died following knee   replacement surgery, officials said Tuesday. He was 77.
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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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A judge has dismissed part of a $2 million lawsuit by Beach Boy Mike Love that claims ex-bandmate Al Jardine illegally used the name of the surf-music kings.
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MARGARET RIVER, Australia  - The waves have been   nicknamed Cyclops, Jaws and Dungeons and are the new   life-and-death playground for a unique breed of surfers who   ride gargantuan ocean waves as big as a seven storey building.
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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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NEW YORK - Janet Leigh, the wholesome beauty who co-starred with James Stewart, John Wayne and Frank Sinatra in films of the 1940s to 1960s and achieved her most lasting fame as the victim of a shower slashing in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," died Sunday at her Beverly Hills, Calif., home, the New York Daily News reported on its Web site Monday. She was 77...
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By Scott Duke Harris, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun.
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By John Simerman, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Sep.
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An eight-day heat wave killed as many as 28 people in Southern California before the temperatures finally began to ebb, coroners in four counties said Wednesday.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep.