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FILE - In this June 29, 1986, file photo, Diego Maradona holds up his teams trophy after Argentinas 3-2 victory over West Germany at the World Cup final soccer match at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City. The Argentine soccer great who was among the best players ever and who led his country to the 1986 World Cup title died from a heart attack on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020, at his home in Buenos Aires. He was 60. (AP Photo/Carlo Fumagalli, File) Carlo Fumagalli Victoria Will associated press file photo...

Remembering those who died in 2020, from Ruth Bader Ginsburg and B. Smith to Chadwick Boseman and Eddie Van Halen Updated Dec 31, 2020; Posted Dec 31, 2020 FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2018, file photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg leaves the stage after speaking to first-year students at Georgetown Law in Washington. Ginsburg died of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)AP Facebook Share By BERNARD McGHEE, The Associated Press In a year defined by...

Gallery: Recalling lives lost in 2020 Bernard McGhee Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 1of24 English actress Honor Blackman poses for photographers during a break from the filming in London. Blackman, 94, the potent British actress who took James Bond’s breath away as Pussy Galore in “Goldfinger” and who starred as the leather-clad, judo-flipping Cathy Gale in “The Avengers,” died April 5. (AP Photo/Leonard Brown, File) Show MoreShow Less 2of24 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak de...

An Open Letter to 2020 on Its Last Day Dear 2020, Quite honestly, those numbers havent sounded as good together since Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters were a Friday night staple. A lot of us had high hopes for you this year, 2020. We were going to tackle new adventures. We were going to travel more. We were going to take a new risk and maybe step outside our comfort zone a little bit. Instead, we spent most of you hearing the terms, "Coronavirus," "COVID," "pandemic," "social distancing," "six fe...

Julie Weil What a difference a year makes! 2020 started off with such promise but soon turned into a dumpster fire. Speaking of fires, wildfires have raged in Australia, California, Oregon and the Amazon rainforest. And, the man who loves to say, “You’re fired!” has had 91% turnover of senior White House officials. Speaking of widespread disaster, COVID-19 has pervaded our world. There are almost 80 million coronavirus cases worldwide and nearly 20 million in the U.S.; we’re approachin...

Final goodbyes: Notable people the world lost in 2020 By Bernard McGhee - Associated Press From left, Ruth Bader Ginsburg served 27 years on the U.S. Supreme Court; John Lewis was an icon of the civil rights movement. AP (AP) — In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genres. Many of their names hold a prominent place in the collective consciousness — RBG, Kobe, Maradona, Eddie Van...

. Born Allen Duaine Pruett in Texas, Fox and Chris OBrien hosted the hugely popular morning show on WKRQ-FM in the 1970s and 80s, and hosted country music on WUBE-FM in the 1990s. Other local deaths include UC basketball analyst Chuck Machock; radio personalities Laura Powell, Bob Nave, Bill Ridenour, Larry Thomas, Geoff Nimmo, Ron Britain and Vic Henley; Joe Morgan, the Reds Hall of Famer turned TV analyst for Reds TV and ESPN Sunday Night Baseball; Bengals coach and NFL analyst Sam Wyche; m...

Subject:* A friend wanted you to see this item from WRAL.com: https://wr.al/1Jb6o From the shocking death of an NBA legend, to the passing of a legendary Supreme Court Justice -- a look back at those we lost in 2020. Show Transcript Yeah, theres a greater purpose that can be served by our sport. Lets hear it again for the M V p of the Finals. Kobe Bryant thistles. Curly Neal, the world famous Harlem Globetrotters. So I feel like my contribution has been the things that Ive accomplished as a c...

The departed: Heroes, celebrities and rogues, from Oregon and beyond, who died in 2020 Updated Dec 28, 2020; Posted Dec 28, 2020 Among those we lost in 2020 (clockwise): Retired Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant, Sisters of the Road co-founder Genny Nelson, former Trail Blazers executive Harry Glickman and sexuality expert Shere Hite. Facebook Share 2020 has been a rough year, and we’ve lost far too many people along the way. Below The Oregonian/OregonLive offers up a list, far from exhaus...

In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genre