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Waukegan pastor remembered for volunteer work: 'She would always put others first'

By Russell Lissau
Feb 14, 2019 12:00 am - A Waukegan pastor whose volunteer work included ministering to Lake County jail inmates and collecting toys for needy children is being remembered for decades of communi...
Anne Firor Scott, groundbreaking historian, dead at 97

By HILLEL ITALIE
Feb 13, 2019 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Anne Firor Scott, a prize-winning historian and esteemed professor who upended the male-dominated field of Southern scholarship by pioneering the study o...
Paperback pioneer Betty Ballantine dead at 99

By HILLEL ITALIE
Feb 13, 2019 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Betty Ballantine, half of a groundbreaking husband-and-wife publishing team that helped invent the modern paperback and vastly expand the market for scie...
Heidi Toffler, assisted on 'Future Shock,' dead at 89

The Associated Press
Feb 13, 2019 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Heidi Toffler, who collaborated with husband Alvin Toffler on the best-selling "Future Shock" and other influential books, has died. Toffler died Feb. 6 ...
Chuck Green, who reported on Oswald's death for AP, dies

By JEFF KAROUB
Feb 13, 2019 6:00 am - DETROIT (AP) - Chuck Green was a witness to one of the 20th century's biggest stories - and first to report a key piece of it to the world. The former Associated Press c...
Anti-communist guerrilla who became Afghan president dies

By KATHY GANNON
Feb 12, 2019 6:00 am - KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghanistan's first president following the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the country and the collapse in 1992 of Kabul's pro-communist gove...
World Cup-winning England goalkeeper Gordon Banks dies at 81

By ROB HARRIS
Feb 12, 2019 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Piercing the roar of the crowd, in the searing heat of Guadalajara, Mexico, Gordon Banks heard Pele shout "Goal!" Aiming a header to bounce off the hard fi...
Mother of Utah man freed from Venezuela jail last year dies

By BRADY McCOMBS
Feb 11, 2019 6:00 am - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Laurie Holt, a Utah woman who struggled for nearly two years to get her son freed from a Venezuelan jail, died on Sunday. She was 50 and died less ...
Olympic champion rower Reinelt of Germany dies at 30

The Associated Press
Feb 11, 2019 6:00 am - ST. MORITZ, Switzerland (AP) - Maximilian Reinelt, an Olympic gold medalist rower from Germany who was a long-time member of the country's successful men's eights crew, ...
Rep Walter Jones Jr. of North Carolina dies on 76th birthday

By GARY D. ROBERTSON
Feb 10, 2019 6:00 am - RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Republican U.S. Rep. Walter B. Jones Jr. of North Carolina, a once-fervent supporter of the 2003 invasion of Iraq who later became an equally outspo...

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