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Coroner: Reid’s son died from heroin overdose
A coroner says an accidental heroin overdose killed Garrett Reid, the son of Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid.
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Ex-SEALs died after rushing to help
Two former Navy SEALs who were among four Americans killed last week in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, died after rushing to the aid of their colleagues, according to sources familiar with the incident.
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Ethiopian leader Meles Zenawi died
Former guerrilla leader, in power since 1991, to be succeeded by deputy prime minister, state TV say.
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Syrian TV: National security chief has died from wounds suffered in Wednesday’s rebel blast
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian TV: National security chief has died from wounds suffered in Wednesday’s rebel blast.
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Authority with direct knowledge says ex-Syrian defense minister has died in Damascus attack
BEIRUT (AP) — Authority with direct knowledge says ex-Syrian defense minister has died in Damascus attack.
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Andy Griffith died of heart attack
Andy Griffith’s death certificate says the actor died of a heart attack, after years of suffering from other illnesses, including coronary artery disease.
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Saudi Crown Prince Nayef has died
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Crown Prince Nayef, the hardline interior minister who spearheaded Saudi Arabia’s fierce crackdown crushing al-Qaida’s branch in the country after the 9/11 attacks in the United States and then rose to become next in line…
Soldier ‘died protecting patrol’
A British soldier killed on patrol in Afghanistan on Wednesday is named as L/Cpl James Ashworth from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards.
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Mansion where Versace died for sale
The Miami Beach, Florida, mansion outside which owner and fashion designer Gianni Versace was killed is up for sale at 5 million, a real estate firm said.
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Lockerbie bomber Megrahi has died in Libya: brother
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of the 1988 bombing of a PanAm flight over Lockerbie, died of cancer on Sunday aged 60, leaving many questions on the attack and its aftermath unanswered.
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Town where Trayvon died in ‘limbo’
The rejection of the resignation plan for the embattled police chief in the Trayvon Martin case leaves the city in "limbo," the city manager said Tuesday.
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Coroner: Breitbart died of heart failure
Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger whose posting of a sexually explicit photo of former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner led to the congressman's downfall, died of heart failure, the Los Angeles County Coroner said in an autopsy report released Friday.
Firefighters ‘died for no reason’
Four firefighters died after being sent into “an obviously dangerous situation” in a blazing warehouse for no good reason, a court hears.
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Why Whitney Houston died
Whitney Houston was found by an assistant “lying face down in the bathtub filled with water” in a hotel room the day she died, according to the autopsy report.
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Houston died from drowning, coroner says
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Whitney Houston died from drowning in a hotel bathtub, but coroner’s officials said Thursday that heart disease and chronic cocaine use were contributing factors to the singer’s death.
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U.N.: More than 8,000 have died in Syria
Opposition activists have declared Tuesday a day of mourning across Syria as the death toll from a year of government attacks escalates out of control.
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Calm weather a respite in tornado zone where 39 died
CRITTENDEN, Kentucky (Reuters) – Calm weather gave dazed residents of storm-wracked towns a respite early on Sunday as they dug out from a chain of tornadoes that cut a swath of destruction from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico,…
Colvin died trying to escape attack
Marie Colvin, a veteran correspondent who was killed in Syria last week, died trying to get her shoes so she could escape a shelling attack, her paper reported Sunday.
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Coroner: Lax player died of trauma, not booze
A coroner and other doctors testified Tuesday at the murder trial of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player that his ex-girlfriend died of injuries caused by blunt-force trauma and that alcohol and a prescription drug she ingested didn’t play…