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Transsexual L.A. Times sportswriter found dead
Mon, Nov 30, 2009
Reuters

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Times sportswriter who made headlines by announcing he was becoming a woman, then returned to work as a man, has been found dead in a suspected suicide, the paper reported on Saturday.

Mike Penner, a 25-year veteran of the Times sports staff, was found dead at his Los Angeles home at age 52.

The paper said suicide was the suspected cause of death.

 
 
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