Obituaries
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Eminent scholar of early U.S., Bernard Bailyn, dies at 97
Aug 07, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Bernard Bailyn, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and educator of lasting influence whose 'œThe Ideological Origins of the American Revolution'ť transfo...
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Lorenzo Soria, president of Golden Globes group, dies at 68
Aug 07, 2020 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Lorenzo Soria, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and former editor of the Italian news weekly L'Espresso, died Friday, the associat...
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Ford, Bush presidential adviser Brent Scowcroft dies at 95
Aug 07, 2020 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Brent Scowcroft, who played a prominent role in American foreign policy as national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush and...
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Scowcroft, national security adviser to 2 presidents, dies
Aug 07, 2020 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - A lifetime before he served two presidents as national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft was just 12 when he decided to become a West Point cadet after...
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Educator who helped design, run Palatine High School dies at 93Aug 06, 2020 1:00 am - William Thiel, who served as an associate principal for Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 schools for 16 years and was instrumental in helping design the curr...
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President of Venezuelan soccer body Berardinelli dies
Aug 05, 2020 7:00 am - CARACAS (AP) - Venezuela's soccer federation president Jesús Berardinelli has died two weeks after he suddenly lost consciousness and presented other health problems in...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Shirley Ann Grau dies at 91
Aug 05, 2020 7:00 am - NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Shirley Ann Grau, a Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer whose stories and novels told of both the dark secrets and the beauty of the Deep South, has...
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Pete Hamill, legendary New York columnist and novelist, dies
Aug 05, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Pete Hamill, the self-taught, street-wise newspaper columnist whose love affair with New York inspired a colorful and uniquely influential journalistic c...
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Longtime police officer from Wheeling remembered for 'grace and determination'Aug 05, 2020 1:00 am - Robert Michael LaMantia, a Wheeling resident whose long law enforcement career included 11 years as Lincolnwood's police chief, is being remembered as kind, caring and g...
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Public visitation Saturday for Elk Grove's PetriAug 04, 2020 1:00 am - A public visitation and service will be held Saturday as part of a Celebration of Life of James "Jim" Paul Petri, the longest-serving elected official in Elk Grove Villa...