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The cultural legacy of OJ Simpson: football player, actor and murder suspect

5:22am April 12, 2024

OJ Simpson, one of the greatest running backs of all time, has died at 76. His infamous police chase and murder trial changed the media landscape, and accelerated the obsession with celebrity culture.

O.J. Simpson, accompanied by his parents, his son, Jason, and Ralph Wilson, owner of the Buffalo Bills, is inducted into the Wall of Fame in Rich Stadium on Sept. 14, 1980.

O.J. Simpson, football legend acquitted of notorious killings, dies at 76

6:42pm April 11, 2024

by Russell Lewis

Simpson died on Wednesday after a battle with cancer, his family said. His celebrity turned to infamy three decades ago when he was accused and then acquitted of killing his ex-wife and her friend.

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The first foreign-born grand champion of sumo, Akebono Taro, dies at age 54

11:52am April 11, 2024

by The Associated Press

Born Chad George Ha'aheo Rowan in Hawaii, Akebono moved to Tokyo in the 1980s, won his first grand championship in 1993, the first of 11 such titles, and retired in 2001. He died of heart failure.

O.J. Simpson has died at the age of 76

11:39am April 11, 2024

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with CBS News' Steve Futterman about former football star and acquitted murder suspect O.J. Simpson.

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Physicist Peter Higgs, whose subatomic particle research changed the world, has died

4:40pm April 09, 2024

by Geoff Brumfiel

The Nobel-Prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs has died at age 94. He was celebrated for his work on the mass of subatomic particles.

The University of Edinburgh says Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the Higgs boson particle, has died at 94.

Science

Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called 'God particle,' has died

3:07pm April 09, 2024

by The Associated Press

Higgs predicted the existence of the Higgs boson particle, helping explain how matter formed after the Big Bang. His death at 94 was announced by the University of Edinburgh, where he was a professor.

Music & Culture

Drummer for many jazz greats, Albert 'Tootie' Heath has died at age 88

6:41pm April 05, 2024

Albert "Tootie" Heath has died at age 88. He played drums with basically all the greats of the 1950s, '60s and beyond and is on the first albums that Nina Simone and John Coltrane made as bandleaders.

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Tony Award-winning playwright Christopher Durang has died

5:47pm April 03, 2024

by Jeff Lunden

American playwright Christopher Durang has died at 75. He won a Tony Award for "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist with "Miss Witherspoon."

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Lou Conter, pictured at the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, in 2016, died on Monday. He was the last living survivor of the USS Arizona battleship that exploded and sank during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.

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Lou Conter, last survivor of the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, dies at 102

12:15pm April 03, 2024

by Vanessa Romo

The seaman had a storied career in the Navy. Over 27 years he served, he survived the surprise attack by Japan, was shot down over the Pacific and was uninjured in the Korean War.

Arts

Tony-winning playwright Christopher Durang dies at 75

12:01pm April 03, 2024

by The Associated Press

Durang was a master of satire and black comedy who won a Tony Award for "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist with "Miss Witherspoon."