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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) 鈥� Jean Knight, a New Orleans-born soul singer known for her 1971 hit 鈥淢r. Big Stuff,鈥� has died at 80.

LONDON 鈥� Terry Venables, a charismatic and tactically innovative English soccer coach who led his national team to the European Championship semifinals in 1996 after winning trophies at club level with Barcelona and Tottenham, has died. He was 80.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Marty Krofft, a TV producer known for imaginative children鈥檚 shows such as 鈥淗.R. Pufnstuf鈥� and primetime hits including 鈥淒onny & Marie鈥� in the 1970s, has died in Los Angeles, his publicist said. Krofft was 86.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Ron Hodges, a catcher who spent his entire 12-season major league career with the New York Mets, died Friday. He was 74. Hodges died at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital after a short illness, Mets spokesman Jay Horwitz said.

WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Charles Peters, founding editor of The Washington Monthly and its editor-in-chief for three decades, died Thursday at age 96.

DENVER (AP) 鈥� Harald Hasselbach, a defensive lineman for the Denver Broncos during the team's back-to-back Super Bowl championships in the late 1990s, has died at age 56. The Broncos announced Hasselbach's death on Thursday, citing family.

Harald Hasselbach, who won a Grey Cup and two Super Bowls over his professional football career, has died, the Calgary Stampeders said Thursday. He was 56.

LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥� Eddie Merrins was known as 鈥淭he Little Pro鈥� because of his 5-foot-7 stature, certainly not his influence on golf. The longtime pro at Bel-Air Country Club touched everyone from U.S.

Three-time All-Star relief pitcher Willie Hern谩ndez, who won the 1984 AL Cy Young and Most Valuable Player awards for the World Series champion Detroit Tigers, has died. He was 69.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) 鈥� The founder of a former megachurch in Oklahoma who was branded a heretic and lost one audience 鈥� but gained a new one 鈥� after he rejected the idea of hell and supported gay rights has died, his agent said Monday.