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AP - Victor Navarra

AP - “Weepin’” Willie Robinson, a blues singer who performed with Steven Tyler and Bonnie Raitt but also spent time homeless, has died at age 81.

AP - John L. Batherson

AP - Shawn Wang, the chief financial officer of leading Chinese search engine Baidu.com, has died in an accident, the company said.

AP - Serigne Saliou Mbacke, Senegal’s spiritual leader whose image was ever-present in the homes of his millions of followers, has died. He was 92.

AP - Steven T. Florio, a hard-driving executive who worked his way up the publishing ladder to lead the Conde Nast magazine empire, has died at age 58.

AP - Former first lady Lady Bird Johnson outlived her husband, Lyndon, by more than 35 years, expanding on her White House efforts to carve her own legacy as an environmentalist.

AP - NEW YORK (AP) — World War II service shaped the lives and careers of authors Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut, and in turn their works were profoundly influential in the Vietnam era.

AP - Joe Dolan, one of Ireland’s first pop music stars who entertained audiences for decades with Vegas-style showmanship, has died from a brain hemorrhage, his family announced. He was 68.

Reuters - Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, slain in a suicide attack in Rawalpindi on Thursday, knew very well the risks she ran when she decided to wage a public campaign for the restoration of democracy.