Roberta Flack, Grammy-winning singer known for "Killing Me Softly with His Song" and other hits, dies at age 88

Roberta Flack, Grammy-winning singer known for “Killing Me Softly with His Song” and other hits, dies at age 88

Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer and pianist whose intimate vocal and musical style on “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and other hits made her one of the top recording artists of the 1970s and an influential performer long after, died Monday, her publicist confirmed to CBS…

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Fay Vincent, former MLB commissioner during three years of turmoil, dies at 86 after battling cancer

Fay Vincent, former MLB commissioner during three years of turmoil, dies at 86 after battling cancer

Fay Vincent, who became an unexpected baseball commissioner in 1989 following the death of A. Bartlett Giamatti and then was forced out three years later by owners intent on a labor confrontation with players, has died. He was 86. Vincent had undergone radiation and chemotherapy for bladder cancer and developed complications that included bleeding, said…

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