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Legendary radio host Don Imus dead at 79

By Spencer Neale

Published December 27, 2019 10:43pm ET

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Legendary radio host Don Imus dead at 79 — **FILE** Radio personality Don Imus appears on Rev. Al Sharpton's radio show in New York in this file photo of April 9, 2007. Imus returns at 6 a.m. Monday, Dec. 3, 2007 after a 7 1/2 month absence from the airwaves, since being fired by CBS Radio in April after calling the Rutgers University women's basketball team a bunch of "nappy-headed hos." | (Richard Drew/ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Radio host Don Imus is dead at 79.

The host of Imus in the Morning, Imus died at Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in College Station, Texas, on Friday.

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