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Dick Clark Underwent Prostate Procedure Prior to Death | NBC Los Angeles

Legendary entertainer and producer Dick Clark underwent prostate surgery the day before he died of a heart attack, his publicist confirmed Tuesday.

According to Clark's death certificate, he underwent a procedure on April 17 to cure acute urinary retention due to benign prostatic hyperplasia, which usually means the prostate becomes so inflamed that it becomes difficult to urinate.

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"It is a death certificate. It is public record and that's what the death certificate says," said Paul Shefrin, publicist.

Clark died at Santa Monica's St. John's Hospital from a heart attack as a result of coronary artery disease, according to the certificate.

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"America's Oldest Teenager" Dies at Age 82

Few entertainment figures can boast the legacy left by Dick Clark. From radio to television to music, the man known as "America’s oldest teenager" changed the face of just about everything he touched. Clark died Wednesday, April 18, after suffering a heart attack at age 82. Gordon Tokumatsu reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m.

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Occupy Wall Street Can't Block Twitter Subpoena - YouTube

Occupy Wall Street Can't Block Twitter Subpoena - YouTube

Occupy Wall Street Protester Can’t Block Twitter Subpoena

By Joe Coscarelli

A Manhattan judge ruled today that Occupy Wall Street protester Malcolm Harris will not be able to prevent prosecutors from demanding "any and all user information" tied to his Twitter account. Harris was one of about 700 demonstrators arrested in last fall's march over the Brooklyn Bridge, only to have his social media profile subpoenaed by the district attorney's office. As the Wall Street Journal reported last month, "prosecutors have turned one of the movement's principal organizing tools — social media such as Twitter — against the defendants."

Harris sought to fight the subpoena, the New York Times reported in February, arguing "that the request for 'any and all information' could be interpreted as asking for private messages between Mr. Harris and others, as well as a host of data collected by Twitter, including e-mail addresses and phone numbers used by Mr. Harris, Web pages he has visited and information about his physical location at different times." But a judge said today that the information is fair and relevant. "Twitter's license to use the defendant's Tweets means that the Tweets the defendant posted were not his," the decision said.

Harris, meanwhile, says he's no longer tweeting from the account that was subpoenaed. "So this gonna get kinda weird because I haven't operated that account in months," he wrote from another username today. "Can Twitter turn over tweets from an account that's been subpoenaed even if it's not the same operator as when it was subpoenaed?" he wondered. Although tweets on Harris' account at the time of the march, @destructuremal, only date back to February, Twitter presumably has a record of the info prosecutors are actually after.

In an e-mail to Daily Intel this afternoon, Harris declined to comment directly on the ruling, but added, "Using a Harvard Law trained ADA's time prosecuting non-violent protesters is an outrageous and disappointing use of state funds."

Judge: DA Can Subpoena Occupy Protester Tweets [NBC NY] Occupy protester's tweets fair game for prosecutors: judge [Reuters]

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