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Fitness guru Jack LaLanne, who inspired television viewers to trim down and pump iron decades before exercise became a national obsession, has died at age 96.

Mr. Price, the novelist, poet and memoirist, found all the material he needed in the North Carolina he knew so well.

David Nelson, who starred on his parents' popular television show "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," has died, a family spokesman said. He was 74.

British filmmaker Peter Yates, who sent Steve McQueen screeching through the streets of San Francisco in a Ford Mustang in "Bullitt," has died at the age of 81.

Teena Marie, an award-winning R&B singer-songwriter, was found dead at her California home, her manager said.

A family friend says Elizabeth Edwards has died of cancer. The friend says the estranged wife of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards died in North Carolina Tuesday morning....

Don Meredith, one of the most recognizable figures of the early Dallas Cowboys before jumping into the broadcast booth with Howard Cosell, dies of a brain hemorrhage at 72.

Ron Santo, one of the greatest players in Chicago Cubs history and a longtime WGN radio announcer whose devotion to the perennial losers was made obvious night after night by his excited shouts or dejected laments, has died. He was 70.

Mr. Kershner’s “The Empire Strikes Back,” part of the “Star Wars” chronology, earned mixed reviews but, eventually, critical praise.

Mr. De Laurentiis produced more than 500 films in his career, including “Serpico” and “Three Days of the Condor.”