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Ex-NASCAR driver Eric McClure dies at 42; autopsy pending

The Associated Press
May 02, 2021 7:00 am - ABINGDON, Va. (AP) - Former NASCAR driver Eric McClure died Sunday, his family and the series said. He was 42. No details were given about his death. McClure had posted ...
Former NZ men's basketball coach Steve McKean dead at 77

The Associated Press
May 02, 2021 7:00 am - WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Steve McKean, a San Jose State University graduate who was a pioneering professional basketball player in New Zealand and later coach of t...
Olympia Dukakis, Oscar-winning 'Moonstruck' star, dies at 89

By BROOKE LEFFERTS
May 01, 2021 7:00 am - MAPLEWOOD, N.J. (AP) - Olympia Dukakis, the veteran stage and screen actor whose flair for maternal roles helped her win an Oscar as Cher's mother in the romantic comedy...
Al Schmitt, Grammy winning engineer and producer, dead at 91

By HILLEL ITALIE
Apr 28, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Twenty-time Grammy winner Al Schmitt, whose extraordinary career as a recording engineer and producer included albums by Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Frank Si...
Astronaut Michael Collins, Apollo 11 pilot, dead of cancer

By JESSICA GRESKO
Apr 28, 2021 7:00 am - Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, who orbited the moon alone while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their historic first steps on the lunar surface, died Wednesday...
Astronaut Michael Collins, Apollo 11 pilot, dies at 90

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press
Apr 28, 2021 1:00 am - Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, who piloted the ship from which Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left to make their historic first steps on the moon in 1969, died Wed...
Former Elgin, South Barrington police chief Charles Gruber remembered as being ahead of his time

By Rick West
Apr 28, 2021 1:00 am - Former Elgin Police Chief Charles Gruber is remembered as being ahead of his time in implementing the community policing approach that now is front and center in law enf...
Australian swimming great John Konrads dies at age 78

The Associated Press
Apr 26, 2021 7:00 am - SYDNEY (AP) - John Konrads, who set 26 individual freestyle swimming world records and won an Olympic gold medal in 1960, has died, the Sport Australia Hall of Fame anno...
Former Fox River Grove village president dies

By Sam Lounsberry Shaw Media
Apr 26, 2021 1:00 am - Former Fox River Grove Village President Robert Nunamaker has died, the village announced in a Facebook post Monday afternoon. Nunamaker was village president for 12 yea...
Mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig dies at 93

By The Associated Press
Apr 25, 2021 7:00 am - Christa Ludwig, a renowned interpreter of Wagner, Mozart and Strauss who starred on the world's great stages for four decades, died at her home in Klosterneuburg, Austri...

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