The Daily Pilot’s full coverage of the 9 victims of the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash
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Kobe Bryant’s latest book creation, “The Wizenard Series: Season One,” was released Tuesday. The tale follows a young basketball player, Reggie, who learns the importance of practice with his magical coach.
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Students at Ensign Intermediate School in Newport Beach recently named trees on campus after people who are important to them, including the three children killed in the Jan. 26 helicopter crash that also claimed former Lakers great Kobe Bryant and five other area residents.
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Several other notables from sports, entertainment and industry are among those buried at Pacific View Memorial Park in Corona del Mar, including screen giant John Wayne.
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Lakers icon Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, were buried in a private service near the family’s Newport Coast home last week, according to death certificates.
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Thousands pay tribute at Angel Stadium to Altobelli family members killed in Bryant helicopter crash
Some 4,000 people gathered Monday in the stands at Angel Stadium in Anaheim to remember Orange Coast College baseball coach John Altobelli, his wife, Keri, and daughter Alyssa, who died in the Jan. 26 helicopter crash in Calabasas that also killed Kobe Bryant and five other people.
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Friends and community members filled Huntington Beach Pier Plaza on Saturday night to honor local resident Christina Mauser, who died in the helicopter crash that also killed Kobe Bryant and seven other area residents.
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Orange County artist Tyke Witnes, a lifelong Lakers fan, painted images of Kobe and Gianna Bryant on the side of El Toro Bravo market in Costa Mesa after they were killed in last weekend’s helicopter crash in Calabasas.
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Hundreds of people turned out for a candlelight vigil Thursday evening at Mariners Park in Newport Beach for Alyssa Altobelli, whose basketball jersey was retired earlier in the day at Ensign Intermediate School.
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At the council’s regular meeting Tuesday night, the seven members held a moment of silence and recited recollections and achievements of those lost.
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Young people may need help as they navigate grief over the deaths of the Lakers legend and eight others, including three children, who perished Sunday in a helicopter crash in Calabasas. Or the tragedy may remind them of the death of someone important to them.
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Kobe Bryant was a basketball superstar who lived in a custom home in a Newport Coast gated community and built a business empire. But he lived a surprisingly public life locally.
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“I can’t remember if I cried When I read about his widowed bride Something touched me deep inside The day the music died” — From “American Pie,” by Don McLean I didn’t cry, not at first.
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Off the court, basketball legend Kobe Bryant fed his early passion for storytelling. His fifth book, about a young athlete in a magical world who learns life lessons through sports, is due out in March — just two months after his death Sunday in a helicopter crash.
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Two days after John Altobelli died in a helicopter crash with eight others, the Pirates rally to within 7-6 before Tuesday’s home game against Southwestern is suspended due to darkness.
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Ara Zobayan of Huntington Beach — the pilot of the helicopter that crashed in Calabasas on Sunday, killing nine people, including Zobayan and retired Lakers star Kobe Bryant — was an experienced flier and a certified flight instructor with more than 8,000 hours of flight time.
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“While the world mourns the loss of a dynamic athlete and humanitarian, I mourn the loss of two people just as important,” wrote Todd Schmidt, Payton’s former school principal.
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Coaches and players weigh in on what Pirates coach John Altobelli meant to the game and to them personally. Altobelli, 56, died Sunday in the helicopter crash that killed nine people in Calabasas.
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Christina Mauser, 38, of Huntington Beach was one of nine victims who died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas.
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Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and other members of the Mamba club basketball team’s community were traveling to a game in Calabasas on Sunday morning when the helicopter they were traveling in crashed, killing all nine people aboard.
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People who knew Kobe Bryant as the father of four who lived up the street, ordered a certain pink drink at the corner Starbucks and trick-or-treated with their children gathered Sunday night in a park not far from his home to share their memories.
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Lakers legend Kobe Bryant died when the helicopter he was traveling in crashed into a hillside in Calabasas shortly before 10 a.m.
