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Mourners gather to remember people killed in Waukegan factory explosion

By Russell Lissau
May 10, 2019 1:00 am - One week after an explosion reduced a Waukegan factory to rubble, more than 100 people gathered at the site Friday morning to remember the four employees killed by the b...
Philadelphia Phillies chairman David Montgomery dies at 72

The Associated Press
May 08, 2019 7:00 am - PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Phillies chairman David Montgomery, who was team president during Philadelphia's 2008 World Series championship season, has died. He was 72. The team...
Louisville athletics administrator Jim McGhee dies at 73

The Associated Press
May 08, 2019 7:00 am - LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Jim McGhee, who worked with Louisville athletics since 1977, including the last 24 as assistant director for varsity sports and student life, has ...
Kurt Lang, Nazi expert and social scientist, dies

The Associated Press
May 08, 2019 7:00 am - BOSTON (AP) - Kurt Lang, an expert on Nazi Germany and a sociologist who with his wife, Gladys, wrote several books about the influence of television on politics and pub...
Jean Vanier, Catholic hero to developmentally disabled, dies

The Associated Press
May 07, 2019 7:00 am - PARIS (AP) - Jean Vanier, a Canadian Catholic whose charity work helped improve conditions for the developmentally disabled in multiple countries over the past half-cent...
John Lukacs, iconoclastic historian, dead at 95

By HILLEL ITALIE
May 06, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - John Lukacs, the Hungarian-born historian and iconoclast who brooded over the future of Western civilization, wrote a best-selling tribute to Winston Chu...
Longtime Illinois politician Thomas Hynes dies at age 80

The Associated Press
May 05, 2019 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Former Illinois state Senate president and Democratic National Committee member Thomas Hynes, who was a powerhouse in Chicago politics for four decades, h...
Former ABC News economics editor Dan Cordtz 92, dies

The Associated Press
May 04, 2019 7:00 am - ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Dan Cordtz, a former economics editor and correspondent and for ABC News, died Saturday in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from cancer, said daughter K...
Progressive Christian author Rachel Held Evans, 37, dies

The Associated Press
May 04, 2019 7:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Progressive Christian author Rachel Held Evans died in Tennessee on Saturday after spending two weeks in a hospital for treatment for an infectio...
Peter Mayhew, Chewbacca in the 'Star Wars' films, dies at 74

By ANDREW DALTON
May 03, 2019 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Peter Mayhew, the towering actor who donned a huge, furry costume to give life to the rugged-and-beloved character of Chewbacca in the original "Star ...

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