DEATHS

A. Lionel Bosem, pre-boom South Beach hotelier, dies of MS

A. Lionel Bosem was studying architecture at the University of Florida in the 1950s when his father died, so he came home to Miami Beach and took over the family’s hotels. 1371672037

Best-selling author Vince Flynn dies at age 47

Best-selling author Vince Flynn, who wrote the Mitch Rapp counterterrorism thriller series and sold more than 15 million books in the U.S. alone, died Wednesday in Minnesota after a more than two-year battle with prostate cancer, according to friends and his publisher. He was 47. 1371669612

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Family: Country singer Slim Whitman dies at age 90

Country singer Slim Whitman, the high-pitched yodeler who sold millions of records through ever-present TV ads in the 1980s and 1990s and whose song saved the world in the film comedy "Mars Attacks!," died Wednesday at a Florida hospital. He was 90. 1371667813

Award-winning journalist Michael Hastings dies

Michael Hastings, the war correspondent whose unflinching reporting from Afghanistan led to the resignation of a top U.S. army general, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles, according to his employer and family.

DEATHS | JOSEPH UNANUE, 81

Joseph Unanue, 81, patriarch of Goya Foods, dies

When Joseph Unanue began to formally work at Goya Foods in 1952, the family business was a regional enterprise.

Author, teacher of endangered Lakota language dies

The endangered Lakota language has lost one of its greatest supporters.

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Wilson, Nobel winner for physics, dies in Maine

Physicist Kenneth Wilson, who earned a Nobel prize for pioneering work that changed the way physicists think about phase transitions, has died in Maine, where he retired to enjoy kayaking with his wife. He was 77.

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