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quote [ Legendary singer ?died peacefully? Wednesday after a long illness ]

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quote [ Best known for his songs "Carefree Highway" and "The Wreck Of Edmund Fitzgerald," Gordon Lightfoot was 84 ]

quote [ Jerry Springer, one of the most influential and controversial figures in TV history, has died ... TMZ has confirmed. ]

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quote [ A 33-year-old woman is in the custody of Nigeria?s Ogun State Police Command for allegedly squeezing the testicles of her landlord to death during a disagreement over an electricity bill. ]

quote [ The Hollywood star passed away peacefully on Wednesday morning after a brief illness, her manager said. ]

quote [ Bacharach composed an astonishing number of hit songs over the decades: "Say A Little Prayer." "Walk On By." "What The World Needs Now." "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head." That's just a handful of his music ? and he won Grammys, Emmys and Oscars. Burt Bacharach's melodies are seared in the memories of generations of listeners. ]

quote [ Singer-songwriter-guitarist David Crosby, a founding member of two popular and enormously influential ?60s rock units, the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash (later Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), has died, his representative says. He was 81 years old. ]