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Rick Hoyt, a man with quadriplegia who raced in the Boston Marathon and other races in a wheelchair with the help of his father, recently died at 61. According to a statement from the Hoyt family, Rick died of complications with his respiratory system. The family statement read, “Rick and our father, Dick, were icons…

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Singer Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of the late Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley, died Thursday, hours after being hospitalized following an apparent cardiac arrest, her mother said. She was 54. “Priscilla Presley and the Presley family are shocked and devastated by the tragic death of their beloved Lisa Marie,” Priscilla Presley said in the…

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Carole Cook, a veteran actress beloved for her work on stage and screen, with credits including the 1984 John Hughes comedy “Sixteen Candles,” has died, according to a statement from her agent, Robert Malcolm. She was 98. Malcolm told CNN via email that Cook died “peacefully” on Wednesday from heart failure. In addition to an…

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NBA legend Bill Russell, an 11-time NBA champion with the Boston Celtics and the first Black head coach in the league, passed away “peacefully” Sunday, according to a family statement from his verified Twitter account. He was 88. The statement reads, “It is with a very heavy heart we would like to pass along to all of Bill’s friends,…
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