Obituaries
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Best-selling novelist Dorothea Benton Frank dead at 67
Sep 04, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Novelist Dorothea Benton Frank, who set such best-sellers as "Sullivan's Island" in her native South Carolina, has died. She was 67. Frank died Monday af...
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Script editor for British show 'Dr. Who' dies
Sep 02, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Terrance Dicks, author of children's books and a longtime script editor for the popular British TV series "Doctor Who," has died. He was 84. His death wa...
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Popular, retired superintendent of Marquardt District 15 dies at 77Sep 02, 2019 1:00 am - Services will be held this week for Lawrence J. Golden, a popular former superintendent of Marquardt District 15 in Glendale Heights, whose legacy was further enriched w...
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Franco Columbu, bodybuilder and Schwarzenegger friend, dies
Aug 31, 2019 7:00 am - ROME (AP) - Italian bodybuilder, boxer and actor Franco Columbu, one of Arnold Schwarzenegger's closest friends, has died in his native Sardinia. He was 78. Columbu died...
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Leslie H. Gelb, diplomat and journalist, dies at age 82
Aug 31, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Leslie H. Gelb, who covered government and world affairs as a correspondent, editor and columnist for The New York Times, died Saturday. He was 82. Gelb'...
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Valerie Harper broke taboos, stole hearts as TV's Rhoda
Aug 31, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - There was never a better laugh line in all of sitcomania and, in her signature role as Rhoda, Valerie Harper nailed it. Eyeing a piece of candy with desi...
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Jim Leavelle, lawman at Lee Harvey Oswald's side, dies at 99
Aug 30, 2019 7:00 am - DALLAS (AP) - Jim Leavelle, the longtime Dallas lawman who was captured in one of history's most iconic photographs as he escorted President John F. Kennedy's assassin a...
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Valerie Harper, TV's sassy, lovable Rhoda, dies at 80
Aug 30, 2019 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Valerie Harper, who scored guffaws, stole hearts and busted TV taboos as the brash, self-deprecating Rhoda Morgenstern on back-to-back hit sitcoms in ...
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Memorial services set for U-46 administratorAug 30, 2019 1:00 am - Memorial services for Elgin Area School District U-46 administrator Ronald Raglin, who died Monday, Aug. 26, have been set. Raglin, 58, died of a heart attack from compl...
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Longtime FIFA official Leoz, indicted in US, dies at 90
Aug 29, 2019 7:00 am - ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) - Nicolás Leoz, a long-time South American soccer executive and FIFA official who had been under house arrest in Paraguay fighting extradition t...