Obituaries
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Italian TV: Beloved entertainer Raffaella Carra' dies at 78
Jul 05, 2021 7:00 am - ROME (AP) - Raffaella Carra', for decades one of Italian television's most beloved entertainers, a woman affectionately nicknamed the 'œqueen of Italian TV," died Monday...
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Rumsfeld, a cunning leader who oversaw a ruinous Iraq war
Jul 01, 2021 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Calling Donald H. Rumsfeld energetic was like calling the Pacific wide. When others would rest, he would run. While others sat, he stood. But try as he...
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Louisiana's ex-Lt. Gov. Jimmy Fitzmorris dies at 99
Jul 01, 2021 7:00 am - NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Jimmy Fitzmorris, the affable two-time lieutenant governor who narrowly lost his long-sought-after bids for New Orleans mayor and Louisiana governor, ...
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Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dies at 88
Jun 30, 2021 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Donald Rumsfeld, the two-time defense secretary and one-time presidential candidate whose reputation as a skilled bureaucrat and visionary of a modern ...
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Rumsfeld, a cunning leader who oversaw a ruinous Iraq war
Jun 30, 2021 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Calling Donald H. Rumsfeld energetic was like calling the Pacific wide. When others would rest, he would run. While others sat, he stood. But try as he...
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Indianapolis prosecutor who resigned for cancer care dies
Jun 30, 2021 7:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Former Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry has died nearly two years after he stepped down while undergoing prostate cancer treatments. He was 72. C...
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Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dies at 88
Jun 30, 2021 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Donald Rumsfeld, the two-time defense secretary and one-time presidential candidate whose reputation as a skilled bureaucrat and visionary of a modern U.S. ...
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Longtime Elgin teacher, former Tuskegee Airman dies at 96Jun 30, 2021 1:00 am - Friends and family say Melvin Copeland didn't talk about himself much, but he would have had plenty to say if he did. From scholarship college athlete to Tuskegee Airma...
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Delia FIallo, mother of telenovelas, dies in Florida, age 96
Jun 29, 2021 7:00 am - MIAMI (AP) - Delia Fiallo, a native of Cuba who was considered the mother of Latin America's telenovelas and wrote dozens of the popular television soap operas, died Tue...
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Jane Barbosa remembered as 'big part of Elgin'Jun 29, 2021 1:00 am - Jane Barbosa, an influential and well-known member of the Mexican and Latino community in Elgin, died June 25 at Advocate Sherman Hospital. She was 75. Born in Cerritos...