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Rick Porter, successful thoroughbred owner, dies at 80

By BETH HARRIS
Jun 07, 2021 7:00 am - Rick Porter, a successful owner who campaigned such top thoroughbreds as 2011 Horse of the Year Havre de Grace and ill-fated Kentucky Derby runner-up Eight Belles, has d...
Richard Robinson, longtime Scholastic CEO, dead at 84

By HILLEL ITALIE
Jun 06, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Richard Robinson, who as the longtime head of Scholastic Inc. shaped the reading habits of millions of young readers through such bestsellers as J.K. Row...
Raymond Donovan, Reagan's former labor secretary, dies at 90

The Associated Press
Jun 06, 2021 7:00 am - NEW VERNON, N.J. (AP) - Raymond Donovan, a construction company executive who resigned as secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor following grand larceny and other cha...
Last of Soviet soldiers who liberated Auschwitz dies at 98

The Associated Press
Jun 06, 2021 7:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - David Dushman, the last surviving Soviet soldier involved in the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, has died. He was 98. The Jewish Community ...
Clarence Williams III, 'The Mod Squad's' Linc, dies at 81

By LINDSEY BAHR
Jun 06, 2021 7:00 am - Clarence Williams III, who played the cool undercover cop Linc Hayes on the counterculture series 'œThe Mod Squad'ť and Prince's father in 'œPurple Rain,'ť has died. He ...
Popular Nigerian televangelist T.B. Joshua dies at 57

By SAM OLUKOYA
Jun 06, 2021 7:00 am - LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Temitope Balogun Joshua, one of Africa's most popular televangelists who was known as T.B. Joshua, has died. He was 57. The Nigerian-born pastor wa...
Celebrity attorney F. Lee Bailey dead at 87

By MARK PRATT
Jun 03, 2021 7:00 am - WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) - F. Lee Bailey, the celebrity attorney who defended O.J. Simpson, Patricia Hearst and the alleged Boston Strangler, but whose legal career halted wh...
Mike Marshall, 1st reliever to win Cy Young, dies at 78

By BETH HARRIS
Jun 01, 2021 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mike Marshall, who became the first reliever to win the Cy Young Award when he set a major league record by pitching 106 games in a season for the Los...
Sam Boulmetis Sr., Hall of Fame New Jersey rider, dies at 94

The Associated Press
Jun 01, 2021 7:00 am - RED BANK, N.J. (AP) - Sam Boulmetis Sr., a Hall of Fame jockey who won four Monmouth Park riding titles in the 1940s and '50s during a nearly 20-year career, has died. H...
A life full of law and pizza; Mathias Mattern of Naperville dies at 87

By Scott C. Morgan
May 31, 2021 1:00 am - Mathias Michael "Mickey" Mattern is being remembered by family and friends for his generosity and dedicated work ethic in the U.S. military, as an attorney and in the pi...

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