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Danbury -
The man behind the children's book "Where the Wild Things Are"died this morning from complications of a stroke last Friday in Danbury, Connecticut. Maurice Sendak was 83.
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Indiantown -
Davy Jones was a teen heartthrob during the 1960s as The Monkees lead singer. Today he suffered a fatal heart attack in Florida.
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Grammy Award-winning singer Etta James has died from complications from leukemia, with her family by her side in California. She was diagnosed with the disease in 2010.
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Journalist Christopher Hitchens has died from complications from cancer at the age of 62, reports Vanity Fair. He was diagnosed with esophageal cancer last year.
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M*A*S*H star Harry Morgan died Wednesday at the age of 96 at his Los Angeles home. He had recently been treated for pneumonia.
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Paradise Valley -
The man behind Family Circus, Bill Keane, passed away on Tuesday. Keane was known for his family-oriented comic strip that has run in syndication since 1960 and is in more than 1,500 newspapers across the United States.
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"Your support and well wishes are so appreciated. Thank you. I will fight this – and beat it," wrote NDP leader Jack Layton on Facebook. Sadly the cancer he so bravely fought claimed Jack Layton Monday in the middle of the night. He was just 61.
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Forward Rick Rypien of the Winnipeg Jets was found dead at his Alberta home today. The RCMP said that the 27-year-old hockey player's death is not considered suspicious.
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Toronto -
Wendy Babcock lived a hard life that ended much too young. The Toronto woman most famous for her career in the sex trade was found dead in her home August 9, 2011.
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In 1964 a brutal murder of two young black men took place in Roxie, Mississippi. One of their killers, James Ford Seale, managed to avoid the long arm of the law until 2007 when he was sentenced to three life sentences.
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