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A plate of stone crabs at Joe’s Stone Crab restaurant in Miami Beach, Fla., Dec. 7, 2018. Jo Ann Bass, the matriarch of Joe’s Stone Crab, a century-old family restaurant that leveraged the claws of a ubiquitous local crustacean in becoming a Miami Beach institution, not unlike the Fontainebleau hotel and the Art Deco jewels of Ocean Drive, died on Jan. 31, 2026, at her home in that city. She was 94. (Saul Martinez/The New York Times).

Jo Ann Bass, Matriarch of Joe’s Stone Crab in Miami Beach, Dies at 94

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Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.), chairman of the 9/11 Commission, speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 9, 2007. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is at left. Hamilton, a former Democratic congressman from rural Indiana who became a major voice in foreign policy during the Iran-Contra affair in the 1980s and in national security investigations after the terrorist attacks of 2001, died on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, at his home in Bloomington, Ind. He was 94. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

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