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It’s a Monday evening in Minneapolis. Police respond to a call about a man who allegedly used a counterfeit $20 bill to buy cigarettes. Seventeen minutes later, the man they are there to investigate lies motionless on the ground, and is pronounced dead shortly after. The man was 46-year-old George Floyd, a bouncer originally from …

Fremont County Coroner Randy Keller identified the man who died in a single-vehicle crash that occurred on Shelf Road near milepost 12 on Saturday. Samuel Haile, 74, of Cañon City, was driving a 1977 Chevrolet pickup south on Shelf Road at about 12:30 p.m. when it traveled off the left side of the road and …

Colleagues pay tribute to Ken Rees, Ex-ITN reporter who has died of cancer aged 76 FORMER ITN reporter Ken Rees was a 6ft 5in television news ‘legend’ who made his name covering the Falklands campaign and Gulf War Mr Rees was a familiar face on television throughout the 80’s and 90’s, reporting from across the world …

Singer Melissa Etheridge announced Wednesday that her and filmmaker Julie Cypher’s 21-year-old son Beckett Cypher, has died after losing his battle with opioid addiction.  “Today I joined the hundreds of thousands of families who have lost loved ones to opioid addiction. My son Beckett, who was just 21, struggled to overcome his addiction and finally …

Comedy veteran Jerry Stiller, who launched his career opposite wife Anne Meara in the 1950s and reemerged four decades later as the hysterically high-strung Frank Costanza on the smash television show “Seinfeld,” has died. He was 92. His son, Ben Stiller, announced the death on Twitter on Monday: I’m sad to say that my father, …

Measuring Don Shula by wins and losses, no NFL coach had a better year. Or career. He looked the part, thanks to a jutting jaw and glare that would intimidate 150-pound sports writers and 300-pound linemen alike. He led the Miami Dolphins to the only perfect season in NFL history, set a league record with …

Correction: After this story published, the study’s authors updated data in the JAMA report about the rate of deaths among Covid-19 patients on ventilators. The headline and story have been updated to reflect the corrected data. It found that, overall, about 20% of Covid-19 patients treated at Northwell Health died, and 25% of those placed …

Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth Warren, a US senator from Massachusetts, speaks during a campaign event in March 2019. Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren In the late 1960s, Warren attended George Washington University on a debate scholarship. She dropped …

Former Arlington County Board member Erik Gutshall has died after a battle with brain cancer. Gutshall’s passing comes a month and a half after the initial word that he was hospitalized, and ten days after his sudden resignation from the County Board. Gutshall’s wife Renee posted a brief tribute to her late husband on Facebook …