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  • Stewart Udall, 90 (1920 - 2010)

     Stewart  Udall

    (Associated Press) By BARRY MASSEY Associated Press Writer SANTA FE, N.M. Stewart Udall, who sowed the seeds of the modern environmental movement as secretary of the interior during the 1960s and later became a crusader for victims of radiation exposure from the government's Cold War nuclear programs, died Saturday. He was 90. A statement from Udall's family, released through...

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  • Fess Parker, 85 (1924 - 2010)

     Fess  Parker

    SANTA YNEZ, Calif. — Actor Fess Parker, who became every baby boomer's idol in the 1950s and launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85. Family spokeswoman Sao Anash said Parker, who was also TV's Daniel Boone and later a major California winemaker and developer, died at his Santa Ynez Valley home. His death comes on the...

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  • Alex Chilton, 59 (1950 - 2010)

     Alex  Chilton

    By CHRIS TALBOTT, Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS -- Alex Chilton, the singer and guitarist who had a No. 1 hit as a gravel-voiced teen with "The Letter" and went on to influence a generation of musicians through his work with Big Star, died Wednesday in New Orleans. He was 59. The Memphis, Tenn., native died at a hospital after experiencing what appeared to be heart problems, said...

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  • Margaret Moth (2010)

     Margaret  Moth

    The Associated Press ATLANTA — CNN photojournalist Margaret Moth, who survived a near-fatal gunshot wound to the face while filming in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the wars there in the early 1990s, died Sunday. She was 59. CNN spokesman Nigel Pritchard confirmed that Moth died in Rochester, Minn., where she was in hospice care. A CNN obituary says she had suffered from colon cancer for...

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  • Roy Steinfort, 88 (1921 - 2010)

     Roy  Steinfort

    (Associated Press) By RICHARD PYLE NEW YORK Roy Steinfort, a veteran newsman and former vice president of The Associated Press who turned the agency's radio operations into a service providing news to millions of listeners worldwide, died Sunday at age 88. Steinfort died after a short battle with cancer, said his widow, Patricia Milton. In 2005, he had been seriously injured in an...

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