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Minneapolis, MN (Gophersports.com) - Longtime University of Minnesota assistant baseball coach Todd Oakes passed away today after a courageous and public battle with leukemia. Oakes, who coached the Minnesota pitching staff, was 55.

Last year my co-worker, Jeff, said that if I had some free time, I should stop by the St Baldrick's Head Shaving. Well, with a name like that, I couldn't skip it! It was so much fun, that I'm going to be there again this year!

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A bill moving through the Minnesota Legislature would allow terminally ill patients with only six months to live to be prescribed life-ending medication.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman says he is cancer-free.

ATLANTA (AP) —ATLANTA (AP) — Doctors say former President Jimmy Carter's medical treatment isn't ending after some good news from the latest MRI.

ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter says recent tests have found he's responding well to treatment for cancer.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Flip Saunders has been hospitalized for testing and treatment following a setback in his fight with cancer, leaving his leadership roles with the Minnesota Timberwolves indefinitely to focus on his health and recovery.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Vincent Bugliosi, the prosecutor in the Charles Manson trial who went on to write the best-selling true-crime book, "Helter Skelter," has died. He was 80.

Veteran journalist Tom Brokaw shares his cancer story tonight at 9pm on a special edition of NBC's Dateline called "Tom Brokaw: A Lucky Life Interrupted". That story includes his experience at Mayo Clinic in Rochester while undergoing for multiple myeloma, a blood cancer.