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Barry Manilow's X/Twitter account reporting the death of singer Debra Byrd, with whom he and others collaborated. Byrd was also a long-time vocal coach on American Idol and Canadian Idol. Edit: obit: https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/debra-byrd-dead-american-idol-vocal-coach-obituary-1235626739/

Warner Brothers Discovery shutting down Rooster Teeth fandom, gaming and comedy entertainment division. https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/rooster-teeth-shutting-down-warner-bros-discovery-1235931953/

Just For Laughs/Juste pour rire 2024 edition canceled as the company that operates the comedy festival seeks bankruptcy protection. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/juste-pour-rire-2024-festival-1.7134047 https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/statement-of-groupe-juste-pour-rire-inc--813927900.html

BowFlex files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but agrees to a $37.5 million buyout by Johnson Health Tech. https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/bowflex-files-bankruptcy-with-375-mln-buyout-offer-2024-03-05/

Juli Lynne Charlot QO: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/juli-lynne-charlot-inventor-poodle-173747912.html

D.J. Park, who played university football at South Carolina and had a brief stint with the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts, has died. He was 29. https://www.foxnews.com/sports/former-south-carolina-lineman-dj-park-dead

Gifford Cooke, who co-founded the now global seafood company Cooke Aquaculture, has died. He was 88. The company began as an operation in southwest New Brunswick in 1985. Today, the company has nearly 13,000 employees and oversees a family of 13 brands. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/gifford-cooke-dies-1.7133634

David Johnson obit: https://sfstandard.com/2024/03/04/san-francisco-fillmore-photographer-david-johnson/

Capt. Charlie 'Griff' Griffin, who along with his boat crew starred in episodes 2-5 of 'Wicked Tuna Outer Banks,' winning the fourth season, has died. Griffin was killed in a boating accident. https://www.pilotonline.com/2024/03/04/capt-charlie-griffin-wicked-tuna-star-dies-in-boating-accident-on-the-outer-banks/

Sean Garinger, who appeared on the series '16 and Pregnant' alongside his ex, Selena Gutierrez, has died. He was 20. Garinger, who shared two children with Gutierrez, was killed in an ATV accident. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/16-pregnant-alum-sean-garinger-022633889.html

Jon Clarke, a retired Australian on a 'trip of a lifetime', has died 100 metres from the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13157201/Jon-Clarke-Aussie-retiree-dies-100-metres-summit-trip-lifetime-mount-kilimanjaro.html

Tim Ecclestone, who played nearly 700 NHL with four teams combined between 1967-68 and 1977-78, has died. He was 76. Ecclestone was an original member of the St. Louis Blues expansion franchise and made it to three Stanley Cup finals. https://www.nhl.com/news/former-nhl-player-tim-ecclestone-dead-age-76

Antoine Predock, a world renown architect whose designs include San Diego's baseball stadium and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, in Winnipeg, has died. He was 87. https://www.abqjournal.com/news/world-renowned-architect-antoine-predock-dies-at-87/article_1703ac7a-d9d1-11ee-a183-b711a15cec8d.html

Ed Ott, who played over 550 Major League games, mostly for the Pittsburgh Pirates, with whom he played a key role in their 1979 World Series victory, has died. He was 72. https://www.si.com/fannation/mlb/fastball/news/former-pittsburgh-pirates-world-series-champion-ed-ott-dies-at-age-of-72

Eleanor Collins has died. A solo hit for one team... upon confirmation she died in March and not February. https://globalnews.ca/news/10332428/jazz-legend-eleanor-collins-passes-away/

Canadian jazz legend Eleanor Collins has died at the age of 104. https://globalnews.ca/news/10332428/jazz-legend-eleanor-collins-passes-away/

Edward B. Roberts, who had a seven-decade career at MIT and was a champion of entrepreneurship, has died. He was 88. https://news.mit.edu/2024/professor-edward-roberts-management-scholar-dies-0229

Pakistani terrorist commander Sheikh Jameel-ur Rehman found dead under mysterious circumstances. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/another-pakistan-based-terrorist-dies-mysteriously/articleshow/108169098.cms

Howard Hiatt obit: https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/02/howard-hiatt-dies-harvard-public-health/

Dutch language obit for Jaap Oudkerk: https://www.almeredezeweek.nl/nieuws/sport/59182/wielerkampioen-jaap-oudkerk-86-overleden

Podcast remembering the life of Eva Grant: https://podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/remembering-eva-grant-1924-2024/id1691005319?i=1000643866592

Azerbaijani language obit for Telman Zeynalov: https://medeniyyet.az/page/news/71665/Taninmis-heykeltaras-Telman-Zeynalov-vefat-edib.html

Russian language obit for Vladimir Ageyev: https://cheb.ru/news/?shownews=290085

John Colaianni paid obit: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/pressofatlanticcity/name/john-colaianni-obituary?id=53714668

Article in memory of Martin Lockley: https://www.westword.com/news/remembering-martin-lockley-co-founder-of-colorado-dinosaur-ridge-18478493