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Toby Keith was recently honored at the CMT Music Awards at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas. Keith died on Feb. 5 after a battle with stomach cancer at 62. Former MLB pitcher Roger Clemens introduced the tribute to his “true friend and patriot,” followed by a set with Brooks & Dunn playing a classic Keith hit,…

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The oldest man in the world, who recently died in Venezuela, attributed his longevity in part to his love for God and strong Catholic faith. Juan Vicente Pérez Mora died in Táchira, Venezuela, just weeks shy of his 115th birthday, according to an announcement from Freddy Bernal, the governor of Táchira. Guinness World Records had…

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Sandra Crouch, the collaborator and twin sister of gospel music legend Andraé Crouch, died in March after an illness, her publicist said. Crouch, 81, will be honored with a musical tribute and funeral at New Christ Memorial Church in San Fernando, California, set for April 16–17, according to an announcement. She died in a California…

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The University of Kentucky is mourning the death of one of their students, Kate Kaufling, after she passed away less than a year after being diagnosed with bone cancer. The 20-year-old dance team member was only 20. The university announced the news of Kaufling’s passing in a news release on Monday. According to the news,…

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Guy Rivera, 34, was recently charged with murder and gun possession after he fatally shot NYPD officer, Jonathan Diller, in a traffic stop. The ex-con, who was wounded in the exchange, was arraigned via video from the hospital on charges of murder of a police officer, attempted murder and criminal possession of a weapon. Rivera…

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Louis Gosset Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the influential TV miniseries “Roots,” has died at 87 years old. His first cousin Neal L. Gossett told The Associated Press that the actor died in Santa Monica, California. A statement from the family…

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Joseph Lieberman, a former Connecticut senator who became the first Jewish American to be nominated on a major party’s ticket, died at 82 years old. According to a statement from his family, Lieberman died following complications from a fall. His family said in a statement, “Former United States Senator Joseph I. Lieberman died this afternoon,…

“Babar” author Laurent de Brunhoff, who revived his father’s popular picture book series about an elephant king and presided over its rise to a global multimedia franchise, has died at 98 years old. De Brunhoff, a Paris native who moved to the United States in the 1980s, died at his home in Key West, Florida,…

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Pepperdine University has inaugurated the “Our Four Angels Endowed Scholarship” in memory of four students who died in a tragic accident on the Pacific Coast Highway in California last October. The new scholarship hopes to support students at Seaver College, the Christian institution’s undergraduate school. In a statement, the university said that the scholarship was…

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A man who set the Guinness World Record for living the longest time in an iron lung spoke about the love of God his family showed him before his death at 78. For over 70 years, Paul Alexander had been confined to the larger cylindrical mechanical ventilator that used air pressure to help him breathe…

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