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Dave Matthews Band sax player LeRoi Moore dies (AP)

Written by on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 in Latest News.

In this Monday, May 9, 2005 file photo, LeRoi Moore of the Dave Matthews Band performs with the band at New York's Roseland Ballroom. Moore is recovering from an ATV accident on his Virginia farm. According to the band's Web site, Moore was taken to the University of Virginia Health System for treatment after the Monday, June 30, 2008 wreck in Charlottesville. A publicist for the Dave Matthews Band said on Tuesday Aug. 19, 2008 that sax player LeRoi Moore died Tuesday, of injuries suffered in the June accident, at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles. Moore was 46.  (AP Photo/Michael Kim, File)AP – Dave Matthews Band saxophone player LeRoi Moore, one of the group’s founding members and a key part of its eclectic jazz-infused sound, died Tuesday from sudden complications stemming from injuries he sustained in an all-terrain vehicle accident in June. He was 46.

Original post by AP and software by Elliott Back

People pay respects to their deceased relatives who were killed during the Sichuan earthquake in Beichuan, Sichuan province August 19, 2008. People from rural areas of Sichuan who were made homeless by the May 12 earthquake will be able to move into their new homes before December of next year, Vice-Governor Huang Yanrong said Tuesday, China Daily reported. Picture taken August 19, 2008. REUTERS/Bo Bor (CHINA).  CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA.Reuters – An earthquake hit southwest China on
Wednesday, knocking down houses and forcing around 1,200 people
to evacuate from near the site of a devastating quake which
killed at least 70,000 people in May, state media said.

Original post by Reuters and software by Elliott Back

Soldiers stand to attention as the French flag is flown at half mast at the the French 8th marine parachutist regiment headquarters on August 19 in Castres, southern France. French President Nicolas Sarkozy flew to Afghanistan early Wednesday vowing to pursue France's mission after 10 of its troops died in the deadliest attack yet on international forces there.(AFP/Lionel Bonaventure)AFP – French President Nicolas Sarkozy flew to Afghanistan early Wednesday vowing to pursue France’s mission after 10 of its troops died in the deadliest attack yet on international forces there.

Original post by AFP and software by Elliott Back



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