Obituaries
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Rozner: Common to the world, special to meFeb 17, 2019 12:00 am - My father was an ordinary man. I guess he was just about as ordinary as anyone you've ever met. In the old neighborhood, sure, he was the electrician, plumber, roofer. I...
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Gene Littler, US Amateur and US Open champion, dies
Feb 16, 2019 6:00 am - SAN DIEGO (AP) - Gene Littler, whose fluid swing carried him to 29 victories on the PGA Tour and a U.S. Open title at Oakland Hills, has died. Littler died Friday night ...
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Sam Bass, NASCAR's paint-scheme artist, dies at 57
Feb 16, 2019 6:00 am - DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Sam Bass, a NASCAR artist who helped design paint schemes and program covers that illuminated an entire sport, has died. He was 57. His wife, ...
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Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, star of 'Downfall,' dies at 77
Feb 16, 2019 6:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, who played Adolf Hitler cooped up in his Berlin bunker in "Downfall" and an angel in Wim Wenders' "Wings of Desire," has died. He w...
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NIU student with 'heart of gold' killed on first day at Aurora warehouseFeb 16, 2019 12:00 am - Dean Prokos' family-owned restaurant became the safe haven for one of his delivery drivers in 2008 when the Northern Illinois University student fled a deadly shooting r...
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Longtime baseball scout Tommy Giordano dies at 93
Feb 15, 2019 6:00 am - Tommy Giordano, a longtime scout who played only 11 games in the major leagues but spent more than seven decades in a variety of baseball roles, died Thursday. He was 93...
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'Small Island' author Andrea Levy dies of cancer aged 62
Feb 15, 2019 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Andrea Levy, a prize-winning novelist who chronicled the hopes and horrors experienced by the post-World War II generation of Jamaican immigrants in Britai...
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Producer of 'Silent Scream' anti-abortion film dies
Feb 14, 2019 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Donald S. Smith, who produced the controversial anti-abortion film "The Silent Scream" and, with help from Ronald Reagan's White House, distributed co...
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Perennial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche dead at 96
Feb 14, 2019 6:00 am - LEESBURG, Va. (AP) - Lyndon LaRouche Jr., the political extremist who ran for president in every election from 1976 to 2004, including a campaign waged from federal pris...
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Eric Harrison, who launched Beckham's career, dies at 81
Feb 14, 2019 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Before becoming the global football superstar star with the popstar wife and adorning billboards worldwide, David Beckham only answered to Eric Harrison. O...