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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Betty White, whose saucy, up-for-anything charm made her a television mainstay for more than 60 years, whether as a man-crazy TV hostess on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” or the loopy housemate on “The Golden Girls,” has died. She was 99. People and the Washington Post reported White’s death. She launched her TV career in daytime talk shows …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Leon Hale, the dean of Houston newspaper columnists and one of the state’s beloved writers, has died, according to the Houston Chronicle. Hale spent 65 years writing columns about everything from a Brazos River bottom fortuneteller to the most accurate way to tell when spring has arrived. The latter topic sparked a long-running annual trip to south Texas with a …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Leon Hale, the dean of Houston newspaper columnists and one of the state’s beloved writers, has died, according to the Houston Chronicle. Hale spent 65 years writing columns about everything from a Brazos River bottom fortuneteller to the most accurate way to tell when spring has arrived. The latter topic sparked a long-running annual trip to south Texas with a …

Robert William Tanner Sr., a decorated veteran of three wars who was among the last North Texas survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor, died of cancer Dec. 23 in Cedar Hill. He was 99. Tanner was born Dec. 5, 1921, in Fairfield, N.Y., into a family of 11 children. His father died when he was young, and his mother, …