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  • An adept musician in a pop band dismissed as made for TV, Tork became famous with the Monkees in the 1960s. Their reunion tours lasted well into the 2000s.
  • David Canary, the University of Cincinnati graduate who won a record five Daytime Emmys for “All My Children,” has died at his home in Wilton, CT, at...
  • Controversial former Fox News chairman Roger Ailes dies at 77. We look back at his legacy.
  • The actor was best-known for his 11-year stint on the NBC hit, but he was a veteran of the Chicago theater scene before making his way to the New York stage.
  • Roger Ailes, the controversial creator of Fox News Channel, died Thursday at the age of 77. The Ohio native was born in Warren and graduated from Ohio University. He got his start in television in Cleveland and worked his way up from a production assistant on the local daytime talk program, the Mike Douglas Show to become its executive producer. He entered politics in the late 1960’s helping Richard Nixon win the White House. In a 2000 interview with ideastream, Ailes described helping George Voinovich’s gubernatorial race in 1990.
  • Baseball second baseman Joe Morgan died at age 77. He played for the Houston Astros, Cincinnati Reds, San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies and Oakland Athletics from 1963 to 1984.
  • A vast majority of the homicides and more than half of felonious assaults that resulted in injuries this year were a result of gun violence, according to the Columbus Division of Police.
  • He was a veteran of 1970s television comedies such as Good Times and What's Happening!!, but was best known for his role in Ice Cube's Friday films.
  • American novelist Winston Groom died this week at age 77. He wrote the book Forrest Gump, which became an Oscar-winning film and cultural sensation.
  • Hank Adams, a lifelong Native American civil rights advocate, died Dec. 21 at the age of 77. Adams is most well-known for his work in getting the federal government to uphold tribal treaty rights.
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