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NFL Todd Christensen earns first-team All-Pro honors twice during his NFL career with Raiders. Pro Bowl tight end Todd Christensen died Wednesday morning due to complications from surgery, his alma mater BYU reported via Twitter. Christensen, who was drafted in the second round of the 1978 draft out of BYU, had a ten-year NFL career with the Raiders. He was ...

Andrew Buurman/Redferns British Composer Sir John Tavener, who captivated audiences with ‘Songs of Angels’ at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, died Tuesday. LONDON — British composer John Tavener, whose austere choral and orchestral works reflected his religious journey from West to East, died Tuesday. He was 69. Tavener’s publisher, Chester Music, said he died at his home in ...