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Magazine claims terminally ill Jade Goody has passed — and readers aren’t happy

Paul Harvey, the news commentator and talk-radio pioneer whose staccato style made him one of the nation's most familiar voices, died Saturday in Arizona. He was 90.

Author John Updike, regarded as one of the greatest and most prolific writers in modern American letters, has died, his publicist said.

A Brazilian model whose feet and hands were amputated following a drug-resistant infection died early today, health officials said.

The actor, who donned The Robot's suit in the hit 1960s television show, died at 69 in California.

Mr. Wyeth’s precise realist views of hardscrabble rural life became icons of national culture and sparked endless debates about the nature of modern art.