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'Only in L.A.' columnist Steve Harvey, chronicler of the amazing, amusing and absurd, dies at 80

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Steve Harvey chronicled the city's fun side with his "Only in L.A." column, which ran in the L.A. Times for 20 years. Harvey, 80, succumbed to complications of Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia.

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