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Alaskan handcycler Mark Hufford dies at 40
Channel 2 SportsMark Hufford, 40, one of Alaska's premier Ultra Challenge handcycle racers, passed away Wednesday. According to Hufford's family, he was overcome by pneumonia. The star racer had suffered numerous medical problems over the past few years which at...Tags: Career and Workplace, Human Interest, Retraining
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Alaska Native artist Helen Simeonoff dies
The Alutiiq Museum has confirmed that famous Alaska Native artist Helen Jane Simeonoff has passed away.
Simeonoff was known for her vibrant watercolor paintings depicting images from her life. According to her website she was born in Kodiak and studied...Tags: Arts and Culture, Human Interest, Painting
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Anchorage mayor's former chief of staff dies
Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan’s senior policy advisor and former chief of staff has lost a courageous battle with cancer. The mayor's office says Larry Crawford died at home Friday.
Crawford had a long public-service career, serving as city...Tags: Regional Authority, Human Interest, Politics
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Police ask for information about missing woman
Anchorage Police Department Homicide Unit is requesting the assistance of the public in locating a person who has been missing since mid-April, 2010.
Angela Neal Dixiano lived at a residence on the 4100 block of Lakeridge Circle in Anchorage.
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Valdez Journalist Pat Lynn Dead at 75
KTUU.comAlaska has lost a major voice in Valdez news. Valdez radio station KVAK says newsman Pat Lynn died Saturday at the age of 75. Lynn’s wife of 50 years Jean, his son Richard and daughter in-law Amanda were at his side. Patrick Karl Lynn was born in...Tags: Radio Industry, Arts and Culture, Television, Mass Media, Radio
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Irwin Held, former owner of Barney's Beanery, dies at 87
Irwin Held, who owned and operated the West Hollywood watering hole Barney’s Beanery for decades, has died. He was 87. Held, who took over the bar and restaurant on Santa Monica Boulevard in 1970, died Monday at his home in the Hollywood Hills...
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Michael Hastings dies at 33; his article led general to resign
Michael Hastings, an aggressive and iconoclastic journalist whose reporting exposed the vagaries of the war in Iraq and helped bring down the top U.S. general in Afghanistan, died early Tuesday in a car crash in Los Angeles, according to two of his...Tags: Armed Conflicts, Iraq, Richard Winton, Kabul (Afghanistan), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Obituary: Ruby Ellis
Ruby Ellis 1924-2013 Ruby Lee Bolin Ellis, 88, passed away Saturday, June 15, 2013. Born on July 5, 1924, in Casey County, she was a daughter of the late Ernest and Nannie Jones Bolin. Mrs. Ellis was a teacher, retired from the Casey County school...
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Sam Most dies at 82; pioneering jazz flutist
Sam Most, a pioneering jazz flutist who performed with a stylistically diverse range of artists, including Tommy Dorsey, Donald Byrd, Herbie Mann and Charles Mingus, died Thursday at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Woodland Hills. He was 82....
Tags: Charlie Parker, Atlantic City (Atlantic, New Jersey), Durham (Durham, North Carolina), Entertainment, Music
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PASSINGS: Iain Banks, David Jin, Dwight Opperman
Iain Banks Edgy Scottish novelist Iain Banks, 59, a Scottish writer who alternately wowed and disturbed readers with his dark jokes and narrative tricks, died Sunday. His publisher, Little Brown, announced his death but did not provide other details....
Tags: Arts and Culture, Fiction, Thomson Corporation, Chinese Restaurants, Science and Technology
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PASSINGS: Gene Mako, Thomas Penfield Jackson
Gene Mako Champion tennis player in 1930s Gene Mako, 97, a champion tennis player who paired with the legendary Don Budge to win four doubles titles at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in the 1930s, died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los...Tags: Rod Laver, Companies and Corporations, Microsoft Corporation, U.S. Open (tennis), Australia
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Memorial set for 2 women killed in Arkansas flood
WALDRON, Ark. (AP) - A public memorial service is planned for Friday for two women killed in flash flooding in Scott County last month. The memorial for 65-year-old Vivian Sue Reimer and 61-year-old Kay Shearn is set for 2 p.m. Friday at Heritage...Tags: Floods, Human Interest
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