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October 15, 2011 |  8:43 am A Costa Mesa man on Friday received a 20-year sentence and four months in prison for killing an Orange Coast College student and model in a drunk-driving crash on Valentine’s Day 2010. Gustavo Adrian Vega, 24, was sentenced in Orange County Superior Court for killing Cara Lee, 20. Vega had [...]

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Thursday, January 27, 2011 Shannan M. Gilbert, 24 is missing. On the eve of May 01, 2010, she ran hysterically up to a resident’s home near the Oak Beach area in Long Island, NY and pounded on their door asking for help. The homeowner called 911 but Shannan took off running. Shortly after, the last [...]

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07/5/11 10:05 AM ET Former Olympic cross-country ski champion Mika Myllyla of Finland has died at 41. Police say he was found dead Tuesday. They declined to give details except to say no crime was involved. National broadcaster YLE reports he was found dead in his apartment in the northwest town of Kokkola. Myllyla was [...]

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Tuesday 4 January 2011 10.47 GMT Police in the Philippines investigating the fatal New Year’s Eve shooting of a local official did not have to look further than the last photograph he took. It led to the arrest of two suspects. The picture, taken outside the man’s house in Manila, shows a man aiming his [...]

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January 4th, 2011 Bill Erwin, an actor best known for his role on NBC’s “Seinfeld,” died on December 29 in Studio City. California. He was 96. According to Hollywood Reporter, he died of age-related causes. Erwin, who got an Emmy nod for playing the character named Sid Fields on “Seinfeld,” was also known for playing [...]

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Agathe von Trapp (second from left) is seen here rehearsing with the Trapp Family Singers in 1946 30 December 2010 Last updated at 07:21 ET Agathe von Trapp, eldest daughter of the Austrian family who inspired The Sound of Music, has died at the age of 97 in the US state of Maryland. She died [...]

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Wednesday, December 29, 2010; 11:30 PM Geraldine Doyle, 86, who as a 17-year-old factory worker became the inspiration for a popular World War II recruitment poster that evoked female power and independence under the slogan “We Can Do It!,” died Dec. 26 at a hospice in Lansing, Mich. Her daughter, Stephanie Gregg, said the cause [...]

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December 30, 2010 at 18:45 There’s a saying that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But being thin is the standard of beauty nowadays most especially if you are in the modeling and fashion world. Isabelle Caro, the controversial French model who became famous after appearing in a controversial ad campaign tagged as [...]

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12.29.10, 08:55 Avi Cohen, one of the greatest soccer Israeli soccer players of all time, died at Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Medical Center overnight Wednesday at the age of 54. Cohen, the former captain of Israel’s national team, was critically wounded last week when a commercial vehicle hit his moped near Ramat Gan’s financial district. Physicians [...]

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28 December 2010 Last updated at 11:05 ET The American economist credited with bringing about lower fares for airline passengers has died at the age of 93. Alfred E Kahn was best known as the architect of airline deregulation in the United States, a process that started during President Carter’s administration in the late 1970s. [...]

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Dec 28, 2010, 12.23am IST A 28-year-old software professional was shot dead in a bustling marketplace in Rohini, north Delhi, on Sunday night by two strangers whom he had run into just minutes before. The reason for the rage: the victim had opened a car door carelessly, hitting the two men who were walking by. [...]

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Dec 27, 2010 4:44 am PST Teena Marie’s last album, “Congo Square,” was titled after a historical meeting place for slaves in New Orleans, featured a tribute to Martin Luther King’s widow and also song “Black Cool,” written for President Barack Obama.No matter that Marie, 54, was white. The R&B legend revered and fully immersed [...]

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December 24th, 2010 The death of Adrienne Nicole Martin inside August Busch’s mansion has prompted an investigation Thursday. Adrienne Nicole Martin’s death has also prompted backlash against the law enforcement agency that did not report the death until the news media uncovered the story. Now that the story has broke, police are still refusing to [...]

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Dec 24, 2010, 02.45am IST A 23-year-old customer care executive on Thursday morning drove 6km in her father’s WagonR from her home to one of the highest flyovers in the city — Moti Nagar on the Ring Road — parked near the top and jumped 42 feet to her death on the road below. She [...]

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Saturday, December 18, 2010; 1:40 PM As she walked through the door, Sabrina Parker’s big hazel eyes flared with surprise and she raised a hand to her mouth to stifle a gasp. She was a huge fan of the “Twilight” book and movie series, and her friends and family had transformed this greasy garage into [...]

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20 December 2010 Last updated at 05:35 ET Brian Hanrahan, one of the most famous BBC correspondents – best known for his coverage of the Falklands War – has died at the age of 61 after a short battle against cancer. His reporting spanned the reshaping of Nato and the EU, as well as conflicts [...]

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December 19, 2010 Dr. Christ Koulis has been found dead tonight in Chicago, the cause of his death has appeared to be a massive heart attack. Dr. Christ Koulis cause of death has seems to be caused by a massive heart attack. It was found out when the 42 years old man was taken to [...]

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16 December 2010 Last updated at 14:48 ET The American film-maker Blake Edwards has died in southern California at the age of 88. Edwards died of complications from pneumonia on Wednesday at St John’s Health Centre in Santa Monica, his publicist said. His wife, the actress Julie Andrews, and other members of his family were [...]

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Dec 17th 2010 4:55PM Captain Beefheart, aka Don Van Vliet, died Friday. According to Entertainment Weekly, the avant garde rocker passed away at a California hospital due to complications from multiple sclerosis. He was 69. The Captain, mostly remembered today as an icon from a certain time and place in American history, had command over [...]

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December 15, 2010 Bob Feller, who came off an Iowa farm with a dazzling fastball that made him a national celebrity at 17 and propelled him to the Hall of Fame as one of baseball’s greatest pitchers, died Wednesday at a hospice. He was 92. Keep up with the latest news on The Times’s baseball [...]

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