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Bob Love, a 3-time NBA All-Star with the Chicago Bulls, has died at 81

Bob Love, a 3-time NBA All-Star with the Chicago Bulls, has died at 81

CHICAGO (AP) — Former Chicago Bulls forward Bob Love, a three-time All-Star who spent 11 years in the NBA, died Monday. He was 81. The Bulls said Love died after a long battle with cancer. Love averaged 21.3 points and 6.
Japanese poet Shuntaro Tanikawa, master of modern free verse, dies at 92

Japanese poet Shuntaro Tanikawa, master of modern free verse, dies at 92

TOKYO (AP) — Shuntaro Tanikawa , who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died. He was 92.
Arthur Frommer, travel guide innovator, has died at 95

Arthur Frommer, travel guide innovator, has died at 95

NEW YORK (AP) — Arthur Frommer, whose "Europe on 5 Dollars a Day" guidebooks revolutionized leisure travel by convincing average Americans to take budget vacations abroad, has died. He was 95.
Arthur Frommer, travel guide innovator, has died at 95

Arthur Frommer, travel guide innovator, has died at 95

NEW YORK (AP) — Arthur Frommer, whose "Europe on 5 Dollars a Day" guidebooks revolutionized leisure travel by convincing average Americans to take budget vacations abroad, has died. He was 95.
Spencer Lawton, the Savannah prosecutor who tried 'Midnight in the Garden' case, dies at 81

Spencer Lawton, the Savannah prosecutor who tried 'Midnight in the Garden' case, dies at 81

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Spencer Lawton Jr., a former Georgia district attorney who worked to expand the rights of crime victims and prosecuted a Savannah killing made famous by the book “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” has died. He was 81.
Japanese poet Shuntaro Tanikawa, master of modern free verse, has died at 92

Japanese poet Shuntaro Tanikawa, master of modern free verse, has died at 92

TOKYO (AP) — Shuntaro Tanikawa , who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died. He was 92.
Herlda Senhouse, the second-oldest U.S. resident, dies at age 113

Herlda Senhouse, the second-oldest U.S. resident, dies at age 113

WELLESLEY, Mass. (AP) — Herlda Senhouse, who founded a jazz dance group to raise money for Black students in the 1950s and lived to become the second-oldest person in the United States, has died at age 113.

Spencer Lawton, the Savannah prosecutor who tried 'Midnight in the Garden' case, dies at 81

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Spencer Lawton Jr., a former Georgia district attorney who worked to expand the rights of crime victims and prosecuted a Savannah killing made famous by the book “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” has died. He was 81.

Herlda Senhouse, the second-oldest U.S. resident, dies at age 113

WELLESLEY, Mass. (AP) — Herlda Senhouse, who founded a jazz dance group to raise money for Black students in the 1950s and lived to become the second-oldest person in the United States, has died at age 113.
Veteran news executive Reg Murphy, who survived abduction decades ago, has died at 90

Veteran news executive Reg Murphy, who survived abduction decades ago, has died at 90

Reg Murphy, a renowned journalist whose newsgathering career included stints as an editor and top executive at newspapers in Atlanta, San Francisco and Baltimore — and who found himself the subject of national headlines when he survived a politically
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