ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - While Hunter S. Thompson's suicide shocked many in his out-of-the-way neighbourhood, one of his closest friends said Monday the writer had been in a lot of pain after a broken leg and hip surgery. "I wasn't surprised," said George Stranahan, a former owner of the Woody Creek Tavern, one of Thompson's favourite hangouts. "I never expected Hunter to die in a hospital bed with tubes coming out of him. Thompson died in his home Sunday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, Pitkin County Coroner Dr. J. Steve Ayers said Monday. Authorities refused to...