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All Posts Associate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead at a ranch in West Texas on Saturday, opening up a vacancy on the nation’s narrowly divided highest Court with less than a year left in President Barack Obama’s…

Iron Mike Sharpe, a former professional wrestler, has died at age 64, the WWE announced on Monday morning. The Hamilton native was managed by WWE Hall of Famer Captain Lou Albano and used the mysterious — and often loaded —…

Dale L Bumpers, a liberal governor and four-term Democratic senator from Arkansas who came out of retirement in 1999 to make a passionate closing argument defending President Bill Clinton against removal from office in a Senate trial, died on Friday…

Natalie Cole dead at 65. LOS ANGELES — The Grammy-winning daughter of Nat “King” Cole “who carried on her late father’s musical legacy and, through technology, shared a duet with him on ”Unforgettable,” has died. She was 65. Natalie died…

Scott Weiland, best known as the lead singer for Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, passed away in his sleep while on a tour stop in Bloomington, Minnesota, with his band The Wildabouts. At this time we ask that the…

Novelist Jackie Collins died on Saturday of breast cancer at age 77, her family said in a statement. “It is with tremendous sadness that we announce the death of our beautiful, dynamic and one of a kind mother, Jackie Collins,…

As coach of the 1980s New York Islanders dynasty, Al Arbour commanded immediate respect from his players and contemporaries around the NHL. “Al used to say that the negative energy that you’re feeling, turn it into a positive energy,” Hall…

Archie Alleyne, a Toronto jazz drummer who played with Billie Holiday, Stan Getz and Lester Young, has died, his family confirmed Monday. Alleyne had been fighting cancer for several years. He passed away at Bridgepoint Health at the age of 82.…

Tariq Aziz, known as the face of Saddam Hussein’s regime on the world stage for many years, has died in an Iraqi hospital, officials say. Aziz, 79, served as foreign minister and deputy prime minister and was a close adviser…

Beau Biden cause of death was brain cancer Beau Biden, the former Delaware Attorney General and son of Vice President Joe Biden died at 46, the Vice President’s office announced Saturday night. The cause of death was brain cancer. “It…