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Medal of Honor winner McGarity dies in Tenn.

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 23rd

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Former World War II Army squad leader and Medal of Honor recipient Vernon McGarity has died at age 91, a funeral home said Thursday. McGarity died of cancer on Tuesday night in Memphis, said Taylor Loeffel, a spokeswoman for Memorial Park Funeral Home and Cemetery. Funeral

Mourners Remember 9-Year-Old Killed In Oklahoma Tornado

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 23rd

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Friends and family are attending funeral services for a 9-year-old girl killed by Monday's tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb. Thursday's funeral for Antonia Candelaria was the first since the storm that killed 24 people. Ten of the victims were

British PM visits Boston to discuss marathon bombs

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 13th

By STEVE LeBLANCAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) - British Prime Minister David Cameron met with Gov. Deval Patrick on Monday to offer his condolences and discuss lessons that can be learned from the deadly Boston Marathon bombing. The meeting followed a White House visit in which Cameron held a press

British PM visits Boston to discuss marathon bombs

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 13th

Va. woman has no regrets over role in burial

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 11th

By LARRY O'DELL and BOB LEWISAssociated Press DOSWELL, Va. (AP) - The Virginia woman whose actions led to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev being buried about 30 miles north of her Richmond home said the angry backlash from local officials, some cemetery neighbors and online

Robert F. Chew, The Wire's Prop Joe, dies at 52

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 19th

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Acclaimed writer Evan S. Connell dies at 88

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 10th

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Evan S. Connell was virtually unknown to the general public, but to critics and students of graduate writing programs, the adventurous author was regarded fondly and often praised for his diversity of interests. Connell's Depression-era Kansas City in the twin novels "Mrs

Uncle: Dad recalls crash that killed sons as blur

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 14th

By By JUAN A. LOZANOAssociated Press HOUSTON (AP) - The uncle of two young brothers killed by a suspected drunk driver who was then fatally shot at the crash scene said Friday that the boys' father, who was injured in the crash, remembers it as a "blur." Gabriel Barajas said his brother,

McGovern's political career only part of legacy

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 22nd

By KRISTI EATON and WALTER R. MEARSAssociated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - George McGovern never slowed down, never stopped working - not even after losing the 1972 presidential race in a historic landslide that would have politically felled many others. Instead, he met defeat with humor,

George McGovern dies; lost 1972 presidential bid

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 21st

By KRISTI EATON and WALTER R. MEARSAssociated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - George McGovern once joked that he had wanted to run for president in the worst way - and that he had done so. It was a campaign in 1972 dishonored by Watergate, a scandal that fully unfurled too late to knock Republican