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LFO Singer Devin Lima Dies at 41

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LFO singer Devin Lima died early Wednesday morning after a year-long battle with stage 4 cancer, LFO’s publicist confirmed to Variety. He was 41. TMZ first reported the news. “It is with a truly broken heart that that I confirm that Harold ‘Devin’ Lima passed away early this morning after a valiant battle with caner,” LFO’s Brad Fischetti said in a statement. “Devin, as the world knows him, was an extraordinary talent, a doting father to his six children, and a loving partner to their mother. He was a beloved son and brother and a friend to so many. On behalf of the LFO family, thank you for the tremendous outpouring of love from friends, family, fans, media, and those in the music industry. “A few days before he passed away, he said to me, ‘Bro, when it’s over, just tell them I disappeared.’ My friends — Harold ‘Devin’ Lima has disappeared,” Fischetti added. LFO, which gained popularity in the ’90s, consisted of Lima and Fischetti. The pop group was initially a trio, with l

American missionary, adventurer killed by tribe members on restricted and remote island

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The first time American John Allen Chau made it to the remote North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean, he came bearing gifts that included a football and fish. He interacted with some of the missionary — who survive by hunting, fishing and collecting wild plants and are known for attacking anyone who comes near with bows and arrows and spears — until they became angry and shot an arrow at him. It struck a book Chau was carrying, and the 26-year-old adventurer and Christian missionary swam back to a boat of fishermen that was waiting at a safe distance. That night, he wrote about his adventures and left his notes with the fishermen. He returned to the island the next day, on Nov. 16. What happened then isn't known, but on the morning of the following day, the fishermen watched from the boat as the tribesmen dragged Chau's body along the beach. Dependera Pathak, director-general of police on India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands, said Wednesday that the seven fis