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(Newser) - Don Ho, perhaps the best known Hawaiian entertainer ever, died yesterday at age 76 of heart failure.   Ho worked Waikiki as its leading entertainer for 43 years, performing his last show just a few days before his death.  He is best known for his song "Tiny...

(Newser) - Kurt Vonnegut, one of the most popular novelists of the 20th century, died yesterday at 84 in Manhattan. Defying genres, he wrote on everything from the firebombing of Dresden to alien abduction—and that was just Slaughterhouse-Five.

(Newser) - Anna Nicole overdosed on prescription painkillers and sleeping meds, the medical examiner who performed the autopsy on Smith reported today, calling the death accidental. There were nine different drugs in her system at the time of her death, including three antidepressants or anti-anxiety drugs—methadone, Lexapro and Zoloft.