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Tom Wilson, who created the comic strip ‘Ziggy,’ has died at the age of 80, due to complications from pneumonia.

Cleanup efforts have begun in communities that were devastated by Hurricane Irene over the weekend. Although trucks and supplies from the Federal Emergency Management Agency are en route, access to some areas has been cut off by floodwaters that washed out or damaged roads and bridges. “Irene was gonna land somewhere. We’re not Manhattan, our small streams quickly became big rivers,” Vermont Gov.

27-year old Grammy Award winning singer Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London home this morning. The British entertainer had checked out of a treatment program just last month, and was preparing for an upcoming European tour to take place yet this summer...

Legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor has past away at age 79 according to CNN. RIP, classy lady.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Owsley "Bear" Stanley, a 1960s counterculture figure who flooded the flower power scene with LSD and was an early benefactor of the Grateful Dead, died in a car crash in his adopted home country of Australia on Sunday, his family said. He was 76.

In what at least seems to be an unusually deadly ski season in Montana and Wyoming, two skiers were killed yesterday at Whitefish Mountain in Northwest Montana. In a separate incident, another man died yesterday in an avalanche near Hungry Horse Dam in Flathead County.