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http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...icle-1.1266650

Country music star Mindy McCready has reportedly committed suicide.

The 37-year-old singer has died Sunday night, her brother confirmed to the Daily News.

McCready with her boyfriend, record producer David Wilson, who died last month. His death was initially ruled as a suicide by the sheriff's office investigation remains open.

Andrea Canning, a reporter with NBC Dateline, tweeted, “Just got a call from Mindy McCready's best friend that she shot and killed herself this evening. My heart breaks for her two boys.

McCready's brother has confirmed she her death.

McCready recorded five studio albums throughout her career, but she was perhaps best-known for her affair with former Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens.

The singer, who had two young boys, had reportedly struggled with alcohol and mental health issues in recent months and had checked herself into an inpatient rehab facility two weeks ago after the death of her boyfriend, producer David Wilson.

Wilson’s death was initially reported as a suicide, but the sheriff's office in Cleburne County, Ark., has an opened an investigation into it.

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I don't know her work, but there are two orphans left. Very sad.

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Every time I saw her on the news I thought it was to announce her death. Reminds me of Kurt Cobain where they keep getting on my tv and I'm like, "aren't you dead yet?" Everyone knows it's coming, let's just get to the punchline already.

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I remember her having that seizure in front of Mackenzie Philips on Dr Phils Rehab Show and scaring the shit outta every1; Id thought/hoped she'd pulled herself together since then but I guess not. I really feel sorry for her poor kids.......




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RIP Jerry Buss

As the tributes flowed in from everywhere, the sports world stopped to honor a giant now gone. The death of the Lakers’ owner Jerry Buss Monday at age 80 brought out all the usual remembrances, which included the proper credit for creating the Lakers phenomenon out of almost nothing, for spawning much of what we recognize as the modern N.B.A. out of so much magic dust. The tales of the man behind all that, though, were so colorful and so unlikely, it is worth taking a second to realize that if Jerry Buss had not been real, Hollywood would have had to make him up.

And frankly, most Hollywood producers would have thrown out some of the most preposterous details of Buss’s story. Because, really, a man with a doctorate in physical chemistry, who despite a hardscrabble life turned a $1,000 real estate deal into a personal fortune and then turned a moribund N.B.A. franchise into the biggest happening in happening-addicted Los Angeles? Oh, and he won 10 N.B.A. titles along the way? C’mon, now, who’s going believe all of that?

As Howard Beck writes in The Times, Hollywood did not make Buss’s Lakers, Buss did. He played the part of show business mogul to a T, as Bill Dwyre writes in The Los Angeles Times, but the best of his many sides is what shined brightest. As Magic Johnson told Bill Plaschke of The Los Angeles Times after spending several hours of Buss’s last day with him, “Without Dr. Jerry Buss, there is no Magic.” Without his vision, which was his defining characteristic, writes Ramona Shelburne on ESPN.com, there is no Showtime. He brought together the star players, the great basketball minds, added the layer of glamour that became the Lakers’ mystique and set it free to work its wonders.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/sp...-off.html?_r=0

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RIP!

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http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/0...p-kevin-ayers/

According to MOJO, Soft Machine frontman Kevin Ayers has died at the age of 68.

The English-born singer-songwriter was one of many pioneers from The Canterbury Scene, alongside fellow progressive rockers Robert Wyatt, Dave Stewart, Steve Hillage, and Peter Blegvad. In 1963, he joined forces with Wyatt and Hugh Hopper to form The Wilde Flowers, and in 1966 he and Wyatt formed jazz-fusion band Soft Machine.

It was with Soft Machine where Ayers found himself collaborating with future Police guitarist Andy Summer, Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett, and Bob Dylan producers Chas Chandler and Tom Wilson. The band shared the same management team as Jimi Hendrix, and in 1968, they were invited to open for the celebrated rocker on his North American tour.

Ayers would later embark on a successful solo career, releasing over 15 albums and collaborating with Brian Eno, Mike Oldfield, and Lady June. His final record, 2007′s The Unfairground, featured contributions from Hopper, Bridget St John, and Phil Manzanera, as well as members of Neutral Milk Hotel, Teenage Fanclub, Ladybig Transistor, and more.

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http://www.people.com/people/article...ss-fullcontent

TV, film and stage actor Lou Myers, best known for playing Mr. Gaines on the sitcom A Different World in the '80s and early '90s, has died at 77.

Myers passed away at the Charleston Area Medical Center in his native state of West Virginia after battling pneumonia for several months, TMZ.com reported.

Myers was born in Chesapeake, W.V., the son of a Cabin Creek coal miner, according to the Charleston Gazette. After attending West Virginia State University, he got his first acting break as an understudy in the Broadway play The First Breeze of Summer.

He went on to appear in more than a dozen films, including How Stella Got Her Groove Back and The Wedding Planner.

On television, he had roles on ER, JAG and NYPD Blue, but is best remembered for playing Vernon Gaines on A Different World, which was a spin-off from The Cosby Show.

On Broadway, Myers appeared in productions including Oprah Winfrey's The Color Purple and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He won an NAACP Image Award for his portrayal of the Stool Pigeon in the play King Hedley II.

An accomplished piano player, Myers also sang jazz and blues with the touring company of Negro Music in Vogue.

He is survived by his mother, Dorothy Jeffries, 95, a son, Melvin Myers, and two grandsons, Brayden and Christian, the Gazette said.

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http://www.vibe.com/article/dc-and-w...lark-passes-43

Artist Scott Clark worked for a number of publishers over the course of his career, but according to a statement he passed away at 43.

The report was posted last night on his Facebook page and quickly disseminated on Twitter. Clark was best known for his run on Wildstorm's original Stormwatch series in the '90s.

He went on to contribute to various titles, including Spawn/WildC.A.T.S., Alpha Flight, What If...?, and more. The bulk of Clark's work over the last several years was done for DC Comics where he contributed to Adventure Comics, Batman: Incorporated and Brightest Day.

Clark had begun working on a Martin Manhunter story written by Matt Kindt. The first chapter is scheduled to be published as a back-up feature in March's Justice League of America #2.

At this time, the cause of death has not been revealed.

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http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2...staple-singers

Cleotha Staples, founding member of the Staple Singers, dies at 78

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C. Everett Koop, the former surgeon general who brought frank talk about AIDS into American homes, has died at his home in Hanover, N.H., officials at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth announced Monday. He was 96.

Koop, a pediatric surgeon with a conservative reputation and a distinctive beard, was surgeon general from 1981 to 1989 during the Reagan administration and the early months of the administration of George H.W. Bush.

"Dr. Koop will be remembered for his colossal contributions to the health and well-being of patients and communities in the U.S. and around the world," said a statement released by Chip Souba, dean of the Geisel School of Medicine and Joseph O'Donnell, senior scholar at the C. Everett Koop Institute. "As one of our country's greatest surgeons general, he effectively promoted health and the prevention of disease, thereby improving millions of lives in our nation and across the globe."

He is best remembered for his official 1986 report on AIDS – a plain-spoken 36-page document that talked about the way AIDS spread (through sex, needles and blood), the ways it did not spread (through casual contact in homes, schools and workplaces) and how people could protect themselves.

The report advocated condom use for the sexually active and sex education for schoolchildren, pleasantly surprising liberals and upsetting many of Koop's former supporters. An eight-page version was mailed to every American household in 1988.

The brochure came in a sealed packet with the warning that "some of the issues involved in this brochure may not be things you are used to discussing openly."

In interviews and speeches, Koop always stressed that sexual abstinence and monogamy were the best protection against AIDS, but that medical experts had a duty to tell people who did not choose those paths how they could stay healthy.

"My position on AIDS was dictated by scientific integrity and Christian compassion," Koop wrote in his 1991 biography, Koop: The Memoirs of America's Family Doctor.

Koop also made his mark in the fight against smoking, with another 1986 report that alerted the public to the dangers of second-hand smoke – setting the stage for today's widespread prohibitions against smoking in public places.

At one point, Koop was the second-most recognized public official in the United States, after President Reagan, says Alexandra Lord, a former Public Health Service historian and author of "Condom Nation: The US Government's Sex Education Campaign from World War I to the Internet." He was one of the most high-profile surgeons general, before or since, she says -- though she says people under age 35 or so may not know his name today.

Charles Everett Koop was born in Brooklyn on Oct. 14, 1916. He briefly played football at Dartmouth College, where he acquired his lifelong nickname Chick, according to a biography posted online by the National Library of Medicine. An early fascination with medicine eventually led him to Cornell University Medical College. In 1945, he became first surgeon in chief at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, a position he held until his appointment as surgeon general.

His nomination for that position was opposed by groups who feared he would use the office to promote his anti-abortion views – which he said were developed during a career saving newborns with life-threatening birth defects. But Koop avoided pronouncements on abortion during his tenure.

After he left office, he became one of the first high-profile doctors to establish a presence online. His website, DrKoop.com, was launched in 1997 and was intended to provide reliable health information to the public, he said. But Koop and his backers faced criticism over ties with companies advertising on the site. Like many Internet efforts of the era, it failed, going bankrupt in 2001.

Koop remained active, though, heading his C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth in New Hampshire. At a news conference in Washington, D.C., in 2010, when he was 94, he spoke from a wheelchair and told reporters that he was "very, very deaf" and legally blind, the Washington Post reported.

But he still had the strength to warn that AIDS was becoming a "forgotten epidemic." Although 56,000 Americans were still getting infected each year, "simply put, HIV is no longer on the public's radar screen," he said.

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