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MIAMI-DADE

  • LEVI JOHNSON, 72

    Engineer helped make housing for the poor possible

    Levi Alexander Johnson, a pioneer black engineer in the Miami-Dade County Public Works Department -- later a zoning official and general contractor -- died Saturday at 72.

  • BUDDY CLARKE, 96

    Publicist worked with, wrote about stars

    Buddy Clarke launched his show-business career playing the violin in New York and ended it nearly eight decades later as an arts writer in Miami. He was 96. Photo Gallery Available

  • ANTONIO GONZALEZ MUÑIZ, 77

    Designer inherited love of haute couture

    Antonio Gonzalez Muñiz was a fashion superstar in pre-Castro Cuba whose elegant wedding gowns graced the windows of chic Fifth Avenue stores in New York. Later, in Miami, he dressed the cast of Qué Pasa, USA, the bilingual sitcom about a Cuban exile family living in Miami.

  • JAMES MADDOX 'MAX' ROBERTS, 63

    Longtime Miami Herald Home & Design editor

    A No. 2 lead pencil and reams of copy paper are the indelible images that colleagues remember about former Miami Herald copy editor James Maddox ''Max'' Roberts, 63, who died Aug. 11 near his boyhood home in Columbus, Ga.

  • 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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  • DR. HARRY L. KOZOL, 102

    Doctor examined famous on trial

    Dr. Harry L. Kozol, a nationally known neurologist who examined high-profile criminal defendants like Patricia Hearst and whose work helped establish the emerging fields of forensic psychiatry and neuropsychiatry, has died. He was 102.

  • SHELDON KELLER, 85

    Writer worked for Sid Caesar

    (AP) -- Sheldon Keller, a writer who collaborated with Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner on the 1950s sketch comedy show Caesar's Hour and wrote variety shows for Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren and other stars, has died. He was 85.

  • DON LAFONTAINE, 68

    Voice-over specialist familiar to movie fans

    (AP) -- Don LaFontaine, the voice behind thousands of Hollywood movie trailers, has died. He was 68. LaFontaine's agent Vanessa Gilbert says the voice-over artist died Monday as a result of complications from the treatment of an ongoing illness at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

  • IKE PAPPAS, 75

    Reporter was just feet from Oswald shooting

    (AP) -- Ike Pappas, a longtime CBS newsman who was a few feet from presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald when he was fatally shot and reported the chaotic scene live on the air, has died at 75.

  • JABIR HERBERT MUHAMMAD, 79

    Muhammad Ali's manager, advisor

    Jabir Herbert Muhammad, who became Muhammad Ali's boxing manager after Ali's conversion to Islam and negotiated his multimillion-dollar fights while also serving as his spiritual advisor, died Monday in Chicago. He was 79.

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