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Opus heads into the sunset

Oct. 10, 2008
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed is retiring, leaving a hole in Sunday comics pages after nearly 30 years because he wants to save his strip's main character, Opus, from being dragged down in the current political climate. The last strip...
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Pulitzer Prize-winner Edwin Guthman, press secretary for Sen. Robert Kennedy in the early 1960s, has died at the age of 89, the Los Angeles Times said Tuesday.
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NEW YORK, April 7 (UPI) -- U.S. songwriter Bob Dylan, who gave voice to the turbulent 1960s and beyond, earned a special citation when the 2008 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday.

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NEW YORK, April 7 (UPI) -- The Washington Post won six Pulitzer prizes when winners were announced in New York Monday.

Bruce, history Pulitzer Prize winner, dies

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Pulitzer-winning rewrite man dies

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No contest plea in David Halberstam death

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The university student driving the car in which Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam was killed pleaded no contest to his death in San Francisco.

Pulitzer winner Johh L. Gaunt Jr. dies

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Author Cormac McCarthy honored in Scotland

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Writer's wife leaves him for Ted Turner

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Marlette, prize winning cartoonist, dies

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Halberstam dies in car crash

MENLO PARK, Calif., April 23 (UPI) -- David Halberstam, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Vietnam War, was killed Monday in a three-car crash in California.

Wall Street Journal claims 2 Pulitzers

NEW YORK, April 16 (UPI) -- The Wall Street Journal's series on business executives' unethical behavior earned the New York newspaper the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service Monday.

Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road' wins Pulitzer

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Smoot donates Nobel prize money to charity

BERKELEY, Calif., March 23 (UPI) -- University Of California-Berkeley astrophysicist George Smoot is donating his Nobel Prize money to a charitable fund for science education.
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler