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FILE - In this June 10, 2014 file photo, Edwin Hawkins appears at the Apollo Theater Spring Gala and 80th Anniversary Celebration in New York. Hawkins, the gospel star best known for the crossover hit “Oh Happy Day,” died Monday, Jan. 15, 2018, at his home in Pleasanton, Calif., at age 74. He had been suffering from pancreatic cancer. |
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NEW YORK Edwin Hawkins, the gospel star best known for the crossover hit Oh Happy Day and as a major force for contemporary inspirational music, died Monday at age 74. Hawkins died at his home in Pleasanton, Calif. He had been suffering from pancreatic cancer, his publicist Bill Carpenter told The Associated Press. |
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Edwin Hawkins, the gospel star best known for the hit Oh Happy Day, has died at the age of 74. Hawkins died at his home in Pleasanton, California. He had been suffering from pancreatic cancer, said publicist Bill Carpenter. Along with Andrae Crouch, James Cleveland and a handful of others, Hawkins was credited as a founder of modern gospel music. |
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Latest on Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations around the country (all times local): 5:25 p.m. Thousands of people have celebrated Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday with song, dance and speechmaking at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. |
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NEW YORK Edwin Hawkins, the gospel star best known for the crossover hit “Oh Happy Day” and as a major force for contemporary inspirational music, died Monday at age 74. Hawkins died at his home in Pleasanton, California. He had been suffering from pancreatic cancer, publicist Bill Carpenter told The Associated Press. |
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Australia: The Australian and Queensland governments have issued an open call to the world's top scientific minds to help save the Great Barrier Reef. The governments have launched a A$2 million challenge to find novel ways to restore reefs and lift coral abundance. |
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MANILA, Jan 10 2018 (IPS) - It’s not just suspected drug users and dealers at risk of targeted killing in the Philippines. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) reported last week that the Philippines is the most dangerous country in Southeast Asia for journalists. |
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A Calgary minister who does a mean Elvis impersonation spent The King's birthday Monday in the worst way possible: being questioned by lawyers representing Elvis Presley Enterprises about the name of his ministry. Bruce Sheasby is the minister of Your Grace Land, a Calgary nondenominational church.... |
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The niece of a woman who spent the majority of her life in the Good Shepherd said that while she doesn't oppose the development of the site for houses, she would like to see the mass grave renovated and refurbished so that the relatives of those who are buried in the mass grave can remember their loved ones. |
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Comrade Amidu, Greetings from Binduri. Conditional anti-corruption crusader, Mr. Citizen Vigilante, Special Prosecutor at large, long time no hear. Fu ningbina'a wa'alaa? (how body now? ) ye'eli pa'af wooo (problem don come ooooooo ). Time they say sweeps everything along and can bring good as well as evil, evil as well as good. |
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On any given day at a handful of nursing homes in Salt Lake City, a buoyant yet distinguished elderly gentleman would be seen talking, laughing and listening to the residents. Despite his heavy load of religious assignments, Thomas S. Monson, the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day.... |
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