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  • Online activist, programmer Swartz dies in NY

    Computer prodigy Aaron Swartz, who helped develop RSS and co-founded Reddit, has been found dead weeks before he was to go on trial on federal charges that he stole millions of scholarly articles in an attempt to make them freely available to the public.


  • FILE - In a Feb. 29, 1948 file photo, Patricia Neal is shown at lunch with actor Farley Granger on the studio lot in Los Angeles. Granger, most famous for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" and "Rope," died Sunday, March 27, 2011, of natural causes in New York. He was 85.  (AP Photo, File)

    1950s screen idol Farley Granger dead at 85

    Farley Granger, the 1950s bobby sox screen idol who starred in the Alfred Hitchcock classics "Rope" and "Strangers on a Train," has died. He was 85.


  • Emergency personnel respond to the bus crash on Interstate 95 in the Bronx borough of New York on Saturday, March 12, 2011, in which at least 14 people died. The bus, returning to New York from a casino in southeastern Connecticut, flipped onto its side and was sliced in half by the support pole for a large sign. (AP Photo/The Journal News, Frank Becerra Jr.)

    Official: N.Y. bus-crash survivors say driver swerved

    Passengers and witnesses to a New York bus crash that killed 14 people are contradicting the driver's story that he was clipped by a tractor-trailer before the accident, a law-enforcement source said Sunday.


  • **FILE** Bernard Madoff (Associated Press)

    Madoff won't attend son's funeral

    Imprisoned financier Bernard Madoff won't seek to attend his son's funeral out of consideration for the privacy of his son's wife and four children, his lawyer said Monday.


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