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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...
Civil rights activist the Rev. Clay Evans dead at age 94

The Associated Press
Nov 27, 2019 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Prominent Chicago minister and gospel music singer the Rev. Clay Evans, a civil rights activist who embraced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he expanded h...

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