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Ken Starr, a former federal appellate judge and a prominent attorney whose criminal investigation of Bill Clinton led to the president’s impeachment, has died at age 76, his family said Tuesday. Starr died at a hospital Tuesday of complications from surgery, according to his former colleague, attorney Mark Lanier. He said Starr had been hospitalized in an intensive care unit …

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Naomi Judd, the Kentucky-born singer of the Grammy-winning duo The Judds and mother of Wynonna and Ashley Judd, has died. She was 76. The daughters announced her death on Saturday in a statement provided to The Associated Press. “Today we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness,” the …

Sarah Weddington, a trailblazer for women’s rights known for her role arguing the landmark Roe vs. Wade case before the U.S. Supreme Court, died in her sleep Sunday morning. She was 76. Weddington is best known as the youngest person to argue before the high court, doing so at age 26 in 1971 — in one of the most controversial …

Maxwell Scarlett, the first Black graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington and a Fort Worth physician who specialized in emergency medicine, died last month. He was 76 years old. Dr. Scarlett said he did not set out to break barriers when he enrolled at UTA, then called Arlington State College, in September 1965, according to an obituary published by …