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The Search Has Concluded Remembering a star from the hit FOX show "Glee" CALIFORNIA ---- After a five-day search in Lake Piru, Naya Rivera, age 33, was sadly recovered and confirmed dead. This sadly comes on the day the show lost another star, Cory Monteith in 2013. The well-known actor went missing about a week ago, on July 8, after going on a boat ride and a swim with her four-year-old son at the lake. After the time that her boat was slated for return went by, someone found Rivera's son asleep on the boat but with no sign of his mother. When the son was found, he had a life jacket on but also had an adult-sized life-jacket on the boat. When authorities asked what had happened, according to the Sheriff's office statement , the son told investigators that he and Rivera were swimming, and he got back onto the boat, but his mother did not. The Ventura County Sheriff's office along with other law enforcement agencies spent a total of five days searching, along with

Remembering a Legendary Newscaster  Former Today Show Anchor and co-host of ABC's 20/20 died July 1st at age 99 ARIZONA ---- Hugh Downs otherwise known as the "founding voice in modern American media", died at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona at the age of 99. His career had a span of 60 years in broadcasting, anchoring, and hosting.  According to From Yesterday to TODAY: Six Decades of America's Favorite Morning Show, written by Stephen Battaglio, an author, Hugh began his broadcasting career in 1939 as a radio announcer in Lima, Ohio before serving in the army during World War I. When he worked at the NBC Chicago station WMAQ at the age of 22, it was then when he met another legend Dave Garroway, a WMAQ personality. Dave, later on, became the first anchor of TODAY on January 14, 1952.  After many years doing local inserts for TODAY,  out of the WMAQ Chicago station, Hugh eventually moved to New York where he was an announcer, co-host, and sidekick on other shows at N