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Naperville men's choir celebrates founder's life of creativity, connections

By Marie Wilson
Dec 03, 2019 12:00 am - When Bonnie Klee Roberts sang, her voice soared high - a dramatic soprano. But it was the lower tones of men's voices and men's singing she loved - enough to found the ...
Former alderman Langeness remembered as Geneva 'volunteer extraordinaire'

By Bob Oswald
Dec 03, 2019 12:00 am - Robert M. Langeness is being remembered as a longtime Geneva elected official and dedicated community volunteer. Langeness, who died Dec. 1, served three terms on the ci...
Shelley Morrison, Rosario on '~Will & Grace,' dies at 83

By ANDREW DALTON
Dec 02, 2019 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Shelley Morrison, an actress with a 50-year career who was best known for playing a memorable maid on 'œWill & Grace,'ť died Sunday, her publicist sai...
Robert Massie, who popularized Russian history, dead at 90

By HILLEL ITALIE
Dec 02, 2019 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who specialized in best-selling and critically praised biographies of the Russian tsars and discov...
Conductor Mariss Jansons dies at 76; led top orchestras

By DAVID McHUGH
Dec 01, 2019 6:00 am - FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Mariss Jansons, conductor of top classical ensembles including the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amste...
Irving Burgie, songwriter of calypso hit '~Day-O,' dies at 95

By MARK KENNEDY
Dec 01, 2019 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Composer Irving Burgie, who helped popularize Caribbean music and co-wrote the enduring Harry Belafonte hit 'œDay-O (The Banana Boat Song),'ť has died at...
Japan's ex-Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone dead at 101

By MARI YAMAGUCHI
Nov 29, 2019 6:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, a giant of his country's post-World War II politics who pushed for a more assertive Japan while strengthen...
Stats maven Seymour Siwoff dead at 99

By RONALD BLUM
Nov 29, 2019 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Seymour Siwoff, the statistics maven who turned the Elias Sports Bureau into the place to go for exact information on teams and athletes for more than a ...
Nation's winningest football coach McKissick dead at 93

The Associated Press
Nov 28, 2019 6:00 am - SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (AP) - John McKissick, whose 621 victories at South Carolina's Summerville High made him the nation's winningest football coach at any level, has died ...
Pim Verbeek, ex-coach of South Korea and Australia, dies

By JOHN DUERDEN
Nov 28, 2019 6:00 am - SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Pim Verbeek, the Dutchman who coached South Korea and Australia, has died at the age of 63. Verbeek, who played for Sparta Rotterdam, died on T...

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