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  • SHAWNN WIEDER, 43

    Art teacher was avid outdoorswoman

    To her students at West Kendall's Claude Pepper Elementary School, Shawnn Wieder was the elegant and stylishly dressed art teacher with long blond hair, bright blue eyes and an illuminating smile. They didn't know her other side: hunter, angler and lover of the outdoors.

  • JOSEPH DAVIDSON, 95

    Fedco founder a generous but shrewd businessman

    Joseph H. Davidson -- who in the 1960s thought offering products at a discount would be the business of the future and started a drugstore company in that mold -- died Thursday at 95. The cause of death was not released.

  • CHAUMALA LAURENT

    Young Haitian sought cancer treatment in Miami

    Last fall, Chaumala Laurent came to Miami from Haiti hoping that doctors would rebuild her cancer-savaged face. After six months of chemotherapy, radiation and prayer, she'll get her wish -- not from a plastic surgeon, but from an undertaker.

  • ALEXIS LOPEZ-LIMA, 34

    Firefighter, father dies from bike crash injuries

    A Miami firefighter died Tuesday from injuries he suffered in a weekend motorcycle crash on the Dolphin Expressway. Alexis Lopez-Lima was riding his sports bike east on the highway near LeJeune Road at about 10 p.m. Sunday when he crashed into a sports utility vehicle, scattering debris for several hundred feet.

  • GEORGE SLOVER | 1965-2008

    Maitre d' `lived his life onstage'

    In the gilded universe of South Beach dining -- where success depends as much on image and buzz as food and service -- George Slover sparkled like $200 champagne. Photo Gallery Available

  • ALYSSA MULHERN, 23

    Recent FSU grad became a South Dade champion

    At 23, Alyssa Nicole Mulhern was passionate about many things: the orchids in the garden of her father's inn; planning events for the Redland Tropical Gardens organization; and keeping Krome Avenue a scenic, two-lane highway.

  • ABRAHAM SEIF, 86

    Performed thousands of circumcisions

    Cantor Abraham Seif, the ritual circumciser who probably separated more newborn Jewish boys from their foreskins than any other mohel in South Florida history, has died at 86.

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  • ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG, 82

    Influential artist used wide variety of media

    Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg's media knew few bounds. One of his most famous works or ''combines'' was Bed, created when he woke up in the mood to paint but had no money for a canvas. His solution was to take the quilt off his bed and use paint, toothpaste and fingernail polish for his creation. He was also a sculptor and a choreographer.

  • DIANA BARNATO WALKER, 90

    WWII veteran was a pioneering pilot

    (AP) -- Diana Barnato Walker, a World War II veteran who was first British woman to pilot an airplane at supersonic speed, has died. She was 90.

  • JOYCE RAMBO, 74

    Gospel singer a victim of bus crash

    (AP) -- Joyce ''Dottie'' Rambo, an influential gospel singer and songwriter, died early Sunday when her tour bus ran off the highway and struck an embankment.

  • NUALA O'FAOLAIN, 68

    Irish journalist and feminist, author of `Are You Somebody?'

    Nuala O'Faolain, a journalist and feminist who gained international fame with her outspoken 1996 memoir Are You Somebody?, has died of lung cancer, weeks after revealing her illness on state radio.

  • IRENA SENDLER, 98

    Polish savior of 2,500 Jewish kids

    Irena Sendler -- a Polish social worker who helped save some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto and giving them false identities -- has died.

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