NEWPORT, R.I., Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Eileen Gillespie Slocum, a pillar of the Republican establishment in Rhode Island, has died at the age of 92.

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LOS ANGELES, April 29 (UPI) -- Biographical writer Axel Madsen, who mostly worked with celebrities, has died of pancreatic cancer at age 76 at his home in Los Angeles.

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