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Title: Mass. patron who paid for conjoined twins' op dies (AP) Link: click here Description:AP - A Massachusetts philanthropist who gave away millions of dollars to meet medical expenses for needy people and paid for the separation surgery of conjoined twins has died. A. Raymond Tye was 87. Title: Corey Haim prolonged tragic Hollywood tradition (AP) Link: click here Description:

AP - Corey Haim's story is sadly familiar in Hollywood: A teen talent who discovered drugs as he tasted his first success and whose personal problems increased as his star-power faded.

Title: Egypt's top Muslim cleric dies of heart attack (AP) Link: click here Description:

AP - Egypt's top cleric, Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, known for promoting the government agenda against female genital mutilation and the face veil, died of a heart attack Wednesday during a visit to Saudi Arabia. He was 81.

Title: NH campaign finance activist Granny D dies at 100 (AP) Link: click here Description:AP - Doris "Granny D" Haddock, a New Hampshire woman who walked across the country at age 89 to promote campaign finance reform and later waged a quixotic campaign for U.S. Senate, has died. She was 100. Title: Former Medellin drug trafficker Porras dies at 62 (AP) Link: click here Description:AP - Evaristo Porras, a former high-flying Medellin cartel drug trafficker associated with Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, has died at age 62, reportedly in economic ruin. Title: Israeli spy Kimche dead at 82 (AP) Link: click here Description:AP - David Kimche, the Israeli spy-turned-diplomat who played a key role in the Iran-Contra scandal that rocked President Ronald Reagan's administration, has died. He was 82. Title: Greek scholar Sir Kenneth Dover dies at 89 (AP) Link: click here Description:AP - Sir Kenneth Dover, a distinguished historian of Greek culture who gained wider fame by admitting his wish to kill a troublesome colleague, has died at 89. Title: Architect of Chicago's former Sears Tower dies (AP) Link: click here Description:AP - Bruce J. Graham, the pioneering architect who designed the iconic Chicago skyscraper formerly named the Sears Tower, has died. He was 84. Title: Conservationist Edgar Wayburn dies at 103 (AP) Link: click here Description:

AP - Dr. Edgar Wayburn, a five-term Sierra Club president who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for working to preserve vast tracts of U.S. wilderness, has died. He was 103.

Title: Mark Linkous, leader of Sparklehorse, dies at 47 (AP) Link: click here Description:AP - Mark Linkous, the singer-songwriter who released his music under the band name Sparklehorse, has died after shooting himself in the chest in Tennessee. He was 47. Title: Actor Richard Stapley dies at 86 (AP) Link: click here Description:AP - Richard Stapley, the actor who appeared alongside Elizabeth Taylor in "Little Women" and with Gene Kelly in "The Three Musketeers," has died. He was 86. Title: Former head of Johnson Space Center dies in Texas (AP) Link: click here Description:AP - Aaron Cohen, the former director of NASA's Johnson Space Center who helped create the space shuttle program, has died in College Station after a long fight with cancer. He was 79. Title: 'Boggy Creek' filmmaker Pierce dies in Tenn. at 71 (AP) Link: click here Description:AP - Charles B. Pierce, an independent filmmaker whose inexpensively made documentary-style drama "The Legend of Boggy Creek" influenced the hit film "The Blair Witch Project" decades later, has died at age 71. Title: Johnny Alf, a Bossa Nova founder, dies at 80 (AP) Link: click here Description:AP - A founder of Bossa Nova music has died in Brazil after fighting prostate cancer. He was 80. Title: Vladislav Ardzinba, 1st leader of Abkhazia, dies (AP) Link: click here Description:

AP - Vladislav Ardzinba, who led the breakaway Georgian province of Abkhazia to de facto independence through a bloody war and ethnic cleansing, died on Thursday, his doctor said. He was 64.

Title: Calif. transportation activist found dead in creek (AP) Link: click here Description:AP - A former adviser to former Gov. Jerry Brown who became an activist on transportation issues has died in what California authorities believe was a suicide. Title: Former UK Labour Party leader Michael Foot dies (AP) Link: click here Description:

AP - Michael Foot, a bookish intellectual and anti-nuclear campaigner who led Britain's Labour Party to a disastrous defeat in 1983, died Wednesday morning, officials said. He was 96.

Title: Winston Churchill, WWII leader's grandson, dies (AP) Link: click here Description:

AP - Winston Spencer Churchill, a former member of Parliament and grandson of Britain's wartime leader, died Tuesday, an associate said. He was 69.

Title: Author Barry Hannah dies at 67 in Mississippi (AP) Link: click here Description:

AP - Author Barry Hannah, whose fiction was laced with dark humor and populated by hard-drinking Southerners, died Monday at his home in Oxford, Miss. He was 67.

Title: Coutaz, founder of Harmonia Mundi label, dies (AP) Link: click here Description:AP - Bernard Coutaz, who founded the respected independent classical record label Harmonia Mundi and ran it for five decades, has died, his company said Monday. He was 87.

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