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Ken Peters, AP sports writer who covered Olympics, dies

By BETH HARRIS
Feb 25, 2020 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ken Peters, who covered multiple Olympics and other major events during a nearly 35-year career as a sports writer for The Associated Press, has died....
Mubarak, Egypt's autocrat ousted in uprising, dies at 91

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press
Feb 25, 2020 12:00 am - CAIRO - Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian leader who was the autocratic face of stability in the Middle East for nearly 30 years before being forced from power in an Arab Spri...
B. Smith, model turned lifestyle guru, dead at 70

The Associated Press
Feb 24, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Barbara 'œB.'ť Smith, one of the nation's top black models who went on to open restaurants, launch a successful home products line and write cookbooks, h...
Pioneering black NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson dies

By BEN FINLEY
Feb 24, 2020 6:00 am - Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA's early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film 'œHid...
Jeanne Evert, former tennis pro and sister of Chris, dies

The Associated Press
Feb 24, 2020 6:00 am - DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Jeanne Evert Dubin, a former world-ranked tennis player and a younger sister of 18-time Grand Slam champion Chris Evert, has died. She was 62. ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Lisel Mueller, who wrote from Lake County, dies

By Maureen O'Donnell Chicago Sun-Times
Feb 22, 2020 12:00 am - Lisel Mueller fled Germany at 15 and came to America, where she wrote in her poem "Curriculum Vitae": "In the new language everyone spoke too fast. Eventually I caught u...
Hair Club for Men founder -- and client - Sy Sperling dies

By TERRY SPENCER
Feb 20, 2020 6:00 am - FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Hair Club for Men founder Sy Sperling, famous for the TV commercials where he proclaimed 'œI'm not only the Hair Club president but I'm also...
Longtime NFL, college assistant Dan Radakovich dies at 84

The Associated Press
Feb 20, 2020 6:00 am - PITTSBURGH (AP) - Dan Radakovich, who starred as a linebacker at Penn State in the 1950s before winning two Super Bowls as an assistant with the Pittsburgh Steelers in t...
Computer scientist who pioneered 'copy' and 'paste' has died

The Associated Press
Feb 20, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Larry Tesler, the Silicon Valley pioneer who created the now-ubiquitous computer concepts such as 'œcut,'ť 'œcopy'ť and 'œpaste,'ť has died. He was 74. H...
DuPage legal community mourns retired judge with 'tremendous empathy' for victims of crime

By Katlyn Smith
Feb 20, 2020 12:00 am - Remembered as compassionate hard worker, Wolfe dies at 60

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