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Chris Kelly has died at the age of 34

Kriss Kross rapper Chris Kelly died of a drug overdose, toxicology tests reveal

Tests have revealed that Chris Kelly of 1990s rap duo Kriss Kross died of a drug overdose.

Birmingham airport expansion plans: how do they measure up?

Birmingham Airport has proposed changes which could boost capacity of the airport by up to 70 million long term. But just how does this match up with the world's other major airports?

US rapper Tim Dog accused of faking his own death

Lack of a death certificate or burial site and sparse obituary information has led to talk in hip-hop circles that rapper Tim Dog, who owes thousands of dollars to women he was convicted of swindling, faked his own death.

Chris Kelly has died at the age of 34

Kriss Kross singer, Chris Kelly, found dead

Chris Kelly, who for a brief period in the 1990s was famous as one half of the diminutive hip-hop duo Kriss Kross, has died in Atlanta. He was 34. Kelly, known as “Mac Daddy”, and his rap partner Chris “Daddy Mac” Smith, were only 13 when they were discovered at a local mall by producer Jermaine Dupri, who signed them to his So So Def label.

Chris Kelly of Kris Kross performs on stage at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia during the So So Def 20th Anniversary Concert, in this photo taken February 23, 2013. Chris

Kriss Kross rapper Chris 'Mac Daddy' Kelly dies aged 34 in Atlanta hospital

Chris "Mac Daddy" Kelly, one half of the 1990s rap duo Kriss Kross, has died at an Atlanta hospital at the age of 34, a Fulton County Medical Examiner spokesman has confirmed.

Parental guidance: Floyd Mayweather Jnr with his father Floyd Snr, who returns to his corner for the Guerrero fight

Boxing: Floyd Mayweather returns with his mind on the money

Fight game's supreme craftsman is back after a prison term to open his account in $200m deal

Small Georgia town planning to approve a measure mandating gun ownership

Less than three months on from the tragic massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School and the fervent calls for gun control that followed, a small Georgia town is on the cusp of approving a measure mandating gun ownership for every household.

Dr. Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins’ Children’s Center in Baltimore who led the team

'As close to an HIV cure as we've seen': Breakthrough hailed as radical treatment works on baby born HIV-positive in Atlanta

US team gave child stronger, faster dose of antiretroviral drugs straight after birth

'Loving' father murders two young sons in frenzied knife attack before beating wife to death then killing himself

Murder-suicide has shocked Atlanta’s Sikh community

Hood and Vivian Malone, centre, meet the press on the day of ‘the stand at the schoolhouse door’

James Hood: Civil-rights pioneer who helped end US segregation

In the history of the US civil rights movement it is remembered as "the stand in the schoolhouse door" – when James Hood was admitted to the University of Alabama in June 1963 after a charged confrontation pitting the Kennedy administration against the South's most redoubtable champion of segregation, George Wallace.

Lawrence Okoye takes part in activities during the NFL Media Day at the London Soccerdome on Tuesday

American Football: Team GB Olympian Lawrence Okoye drops discus in hope of making the NFL draft

The American dream has taken hold of the 21-year-old

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick

American football: Colin Kaepernick is king as San Francisco 49ers shine on NFL's weekend of wonders

San Francisco have quarterback to thank while Atlanta succeed in dying seconds

In sailing, Ben Ainslie had a glorious fourth gold medal

Ben Ainslie looks to America's Cup

Ben Ainslie may have called time on his Olympic career yesterday but he is already looking forward to the next chapter, which he hopes will bring success in the America's Cup.

New York-bound Bloomberg cuts TV jobs in London

The financial media giant founded by New York mayor Michael Bloomberg is slashing up to 100 jobs at its financial television channel in London as production shifts across the Atlantic, The Independent has learned.

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