Friends, family say final farewells to Nancy Reagan

Friends, family say final farewells to Nancy Reagan

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Mourners from the top ranks of Washington and Hollywood paid final tribute to Nancy Reagan on Friday, recalling at her funeral how the former first lady and her husband made up "two halves of a circle," with a legendary love that seemed to inspire everyone they met.

Inseparable in life, the pair were to be reunited in death in side-by-side graves at Ronald Reagan's presidential library.

Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer dies at 71
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Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer dies at 71

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Keith Emerson, founder and keyboardist of the progressive-rock band Emerson, Lake and Palmer, has died, his longtime partner announced Friday. He was 71.

Mari Kawaguchi said she found Emerson dead at around 1:30 a.m. at their condominium in the coastal suburb of Santa Monica, California but he could have died Thursday evening or night. She declined to disclose the cause of his death.

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