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Flower Hill doctor who killed ill wife commits suicide
In the days since he acknowledged that he helped his terminally ill wife die in a suicide pact, Dr. Rajasekar Sham gave every indication that he intended to live. After pleading guilty last week to charges that he helped his wife of 40 years, Lucila, end...Tags: Lawyers, Suicide, Kathleen Rice, Flower Hill, Nassau University Medical Center
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Sheri Klittich dies at 53; headed trust that helps protect Ventura County's agricultural industry
Sheri Klittich, who developed programs to keep Ventura County's agricultural roots alive as the first administrator of a state-run trust that operates a demonstration farm near Santa Paula, died Nov. 20, a day after she turned 53. Klittich died at her...Tags: Cancer, Chris Johnson, Ventura County, Chatsworth, Tucson
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Feasting on the commonplace
Tribune reporterThursday, if you're at all the bittersweet type, if promise cut short means anything, a suggestion: Make yourself a grilled cheese sandwich in honor of Laurie Colwin. Get the tire treads across the bread deep and charred. Slice it diagonally. Breathe in...Tags: Jane Austen, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Dining and Drinking
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Delray school adds shades to playground
Special CorrespondentUnity School in Delray Beach is taking action to help protect its students. Shade covers will be added to the playground at the school, which has more than 400 students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, said Maria Barber, the school's...Tags: Cancer, Diseases, Delray Beach
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Obituary: Marty McMillan, 51, of Wantagh who died in fishing accident
Marty L. McMillan loved to fish. "It was his interest from childhood, from when he could pick up a rod and reel, and it grew to an obsession," recalled his brother, Matt, of Mastic Beach. McMillan conveyed that passion - surfcasting from shore or...Tags: Westbury, Wantagh, Fishing, Long Island
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CHICAGO TRIBUNE SPORTS BUDGET FOR WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3: DEADLINES: 10:45 (first), 11:30 (second), 12:30 (final). TOTAL COLUMNS REQUESTED: 36 1 (color, 10:05): 6x3; morrissey, bigten/accgizmo scores w/refer to page 2 and back, pompei w/chart, soxgizmo . 2...Tags: National Hockey League, Field Hockey, Brian Kelly, National Basketball Association, Florida State University
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LI Chabad to host 6 memorials for Mumbai terror victims
michael.amon@newsday.comThe six people killed in attacks last week on a Mumbai Jewish center -- including a young Brooklyn couple -- are to be honored Thursday in six memorial services across Long Island. The services were announced yesterday shortly after the victims were...Tags: Terrorism, Judaism, Long Island
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Connetquot mothers of crash victims share similar pain
jennifer.sinco-kelleher@newsday.comThe two mothers have never met. Their sons graduated from Connetquot High School in June, played on the lacrosse team together and died in separate crashes while driving on the same stretch of a Ronkonkoma road. For one mother, the pain is new and the...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Vehicles, Behavioral Conditions, Depression, Migraine
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Wantagh's Jansen top linebacker in Nassau
marcus.henry@newsday.comMotivation to succeed in football comes from many different places. Some players do it in search of glory or for a sense of belonging, while others do it for the spirit of competition. For Wantagh's John Jansen, who took home the Piner Award for...Tags: Outback Steakhouse Incorporated, New York Giants
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Lamar Odom still a slow starter
Lamar Odom was the Lakers' second option a year ago, averaging almost a dozen shots a game before Pau Gasol was acquired.
Now he's seventh on the team with 7.3 shots a game, lagging the obvious ones ( Kobe Bryant and Gasol), the young ones ( Jordan...Tags: Phil Jackson, Trevor Ariza, Andrew Bynum, Pau Gasol, Vladimir Radmanovic
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Deaths elsewhere
BILL DRAKE, 71 Popularized music-centered radio format Bill Drake, who set the tone at hundreds of pop stations with a radio format that placed music - rather than disc jockeys - at the center of the broadcast, died of cancer Saturday at West Hills...Tags: San Fernando, Radio, Radio Industry, Atlanta
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Ruth C. Kammer, registered nurse, traveler
Ruth C. Kammer, a retired registered nurse and world traveler, died of complications from Alzheimer's disease Nov. 23 at the Edenwald retirement community in Towson. She was 92. Ruth Clemmens was born in Baltimore and raised near Patterson Park. She...Tags: Patterson Park, Alzheimer's Disease, Hospitals and Clinics, Edenwald, Medical Staff
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