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  • Composer Marvin Hamlisch dies at 68 in Los Angeles

    CHRIS TALBOTT, AP Music Writer

    Marvin Hamlisch, who composed or arranged the scores for dozens of movies including "The Sting" and the Broadway smash "A Chorus Line," has died in Los Angeles. He was 68. Hamlisch collapsed and died Monday after a brief illness, his publicist Ken Sunshine said on behalf of the family. Other details were not released. AP Photo/Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Alex J. Berliner, file This Nov. 8, 2011 file photograph originally released by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center shows composer Marvin Hamlisch, left, and Barbra Streisand at... Full story

  • Tenn. Officials brace for more flooding, deaths

    CHRIS TALBOTT SHEILA BURKE Associated Press Writers NASHVILLE, Tenn.

    Officials in Nashville braced for more deaths today as the flooded Cumberland River continued to swell, sending muddy water rushing through neighborhoods and threatening the historic heart of Music City after a destructive line of weekend storms killed 21 people in Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky. Using motor boats and canoes, authorities and volunteers rescued scores of residents trapped in flooded homes, some which looked like islands surround by dark river water. The downtown — home of a historic warehouse district t...