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'Meyers Manx' dune buggy creator dead at 94

By JOHN ROGERS
Feb 26, 2021 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Bruce Meyers was hanging out at Pismo Beach on California's Central Coast one afternoon in 1963 when he saw something that both blew his mind and chan...
Man who played Duke Chapel bells for 50 years dies

By JONATHAN DREW
Feb 26, 2021 6:00 am - DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - When J. Samuel Hammond arrived as a freshman at Duke University in 1964, he knew nothing about the musical instrument that allowed a player to send m...
Gambino crime family's elder Gotti, Peter, dies in prison

By MICHAEL BALSAMO
Feb 25, 2021 6:00 am - Mobster Peter Gotti, the brother of notorious Gambino crime boss John Gotti, has died while serving a federal prison sentence, a person familiar with the matter told The...
Elgin woman remembered as "a personal friend of the city council"

By Rick West
Feb 25, 2021 12:00 am - A longtime Elgin resident and fixture at city council meetings was remembered with a moment of silence Wednesday night at Elgin City Hall. Carol B. Gage, 95, died on Feb...
THE REV. DR. C. THEODORE ROOS OF NORTHBROOK

Feb 24, 2021 12:00 am - The Rev. Dr. C. Theodore Roos, 100, longtime resident of Covenant Living of Northbrook, passed away Feb. 14, 2021, from complications of COVID-19. He was born at home to...
Long-serving Saudi oil minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani dies at 90

By JON GAMBRELL
Feb 23, 2021 6:00 am - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Ahmed Zaki Yamani, a long-serving oil minister in Saudi Arabia who led the kingdom through the 1973 oil crisis that shattered the West...
Beat poet, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti dies at 101

By JANIE HAR and HILLEL ITALIE
Feb 23, 2021 6:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, bookseller and activist who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embodied its curious and re...
Former world champion Gresini dies with COVID-19 at 60

The Associated Press
Feb 23, 2021 6:00 am - BOLOGNA, Italy (AP) - Fausto Gresini, a former motorcycling world champion and team owner, died Tuesday from complications linked to the coronavirus. He was 60. Gresini ...
Roger R. Fross, lawyer involved in historic Chicago patronage case, has died

By Russell Lissau
Feb 23, 2021 12:00 am - Editor's note: This story has been changed to correct the spelling of Roger R. Fross' wife's name. The correct spelling is Madelon. A lawyer involved in a historic ...
Influential mayor of Mozambique city dies of COVID-19

By ANDREW MELDRUM
Feb 22, 2021 6:00 am - JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Daviz Simango, the leader of Mozambique's opposition MDM party and the mayor of the major port city of Beira, died Monday in a hospital in South Afri...

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