Radio Ya said coroners were conducting an autopsy on the 57-year-old mayor to determine the cause of death, but it appeared to be a suicide. The La Prensa newspaper reported he was found with a gunshot wound to the chest.
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Fayette Pinkney, 61, singer of the group The Three Degrees, of respiratory failure:
After leaving the Three Degrees and recording a solo album, “One Degree,” in 1979, Ms. Pinkney studied psychology at Temple University and earned a master’s in human services at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in 1985. She began working as an administrative assistant for the Medical College of Pennsylvania and rose to become an education coordinator there. She later counseled incoming patients at United Behavioral Health in Philadelphia.
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Actor Karl Malden, best known for his television series The Streets of San Francisco, died at the ripe old age of 97.
According to his daughter, he died of natural causes.
He was a steel-mill worker from Indiana who broke his nose twice in his youth, but the nose didn't take away from his career.
In a movie career that flourished in the 1950s and '60s, Malden played a variety of roles in more than 50 films, including the sympathetic priest in "On the Waterfront," the resentful husband in "Baby Doll," the warden in "Birdman of Alcatraz," the outlaw-turned-sheriff in "One-Eyed Jacks," the pioneer patriarch in "How the West Was Won," Madame Rose's suitor in "Gypsy," the card dealerin "The Cincinnati Kid" and Gen. Omar Bradley in "Patton."
Here he is pitching American Express travelers checks:
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Stage singer Harve Presnell, 75, of pancreatic cancer.
I remember him as the only truly legitimate singer in the film version of the musical Paint Your Wagon (1969). He belted out the song, "They Called the Wind Maria."
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