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Larry Mavety, longtime junior hockey executive, dies at 78

The Associated Press
Dec 04, 2020 6:00 am - KINGSTON, Ontario (AP) - Larry Mavety, a longtime junior hockey executive who once coached former NHL star Doug Gilmour, has died. He was 78. The Kingston Frontenacs of ...
Marv Marinovich, former USC football captain, dies at 81

The Associated Press
Dec 04, 2020 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Marv Marinovich, who captained Southern California's national championship football team in 1962 and famously employed his strength and conditioning m...
Miguel AlgarÃn, a founder of beloved NYC poetry space, dies

The Associated Press
Dec 03, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Miguel AlgarÃn, poet, professor and a founder of New York City's beloved Nuyorican Poets CafÃ© performance space, has died. He was 79. AlgarÃn died Mon...
Alison Lurie, prize winning novelist, dead at 94

By HILLEL ITALIE
Dec 03, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Alison Lurie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose satirical and cerebral tales of love and academia included the marital saga 'œThe War Between the...
Lon Adams, Slim Jim jerky recipe creator, dies of COVID-19

The Associated Press
Dec 02, 2020 6:00 am - RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Alonzo 'œLon'ť T. Adams II, the man who created the formula for Slim Jim beef jerky sticks, has died from complications of COVID-19. He was 95. Lyn...
American Indian Movement co-founder Benton-Banai dies at 89

By AMY FORLITI and FELICIA FONSECA
Dec 02, 2020 6:00 am - MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Eddie Benton-Banai, who helped found the American Indian Movement partly in response to alleged police brutality against Indigenous people, has died. ...
Ex-French leader Valery Giscard d'Estaing dies at age 94

By SYLVIE CORBET
Dec 02, 2020 6:00 am - PARIS (AP) - Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the president of France from 1974 to 1981 who became a champion of European integration, died on Wednesday. He was 94. Giscard d'E...
Rafer Johnson, 1960 Olympic decathlon champion, dies at 86

By BETH HARRIS
Dec 02, 2020 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy's assassin in 1968, died Wednesday. He was 86. He d...
Wheaton man who died from COVID-19 remembered as loving father who could fix anything

By Scott C. Morgan
Dec 02, 2020 12:00 am - Allan L. Rhoades is being remembered as a loving father and a handyman who "knew how to fix anything." "There wasn't anything he couldn't build, there wasn't anything he...
Palatine's Dave Seiffert remembered for community spirit, love of local sports

By Elena Ferrarin
Dec 02, 2020 12:00 am - Dave Seiffert, a former Palatine Township School District 15 board member, is being remembered for his gregarious personality, and his love of local sports and the commu...

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