Record label: Grammy-winning ‘Queen of the Blues’ Koko Taylor dies in Chicago at 80

CHICAGO — Koko Taylor, a sharecropper’s daughter whose regal bearing and powerful voice earned her the sobriquet “Queen of the Blues,” has died after complications from surgery. She was 80.

Ex-cop suspected in wife’s disappearance offered gig on TV reality show set in Vegas brothel

CHICAGO — A former Illinois police officer suspected in his wife’s disappearance may have a new job — on a TV reality show set in a Nevada brothel.

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Susan Atkins

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Susan Atkins, a member of the Charles Manson “family” who admitted ruthlessly stabbing pregnant actress Sharon Tate to death in the cult’s 1969 murder spree, has died in prison less than a month after a parole board turned down a bid for compassionate release. She was 61 and had brain cancer.

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