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Patrick Caddell, pollster to Jimmy Carter, dies at 68

By WILL LESTER
Feb 17, 2019 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Patrick Caddell, the pollster who helped propel Jimmy Carter in his longshot bid to win the presidency and later distanced himself from Democrats, has ...
Rozner: Common to the world, special to me

By Barry Rozner
Feb 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...
Gene Littler, US Amateur and US Open champion, dies

The Associated Press
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 ...
Sam Bass, NASCAR's paint-scheme artist, dies at 57

The Associated Press
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, ...
Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, star of 'Downfall,' dies at 77

The Associated Press
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...
NIU student with 'heart of gold' killed on first day at Aurora warehouse

By Katlyn Smith
Feb 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...
Longtime baseball scout Tommy Giordano dies at 93

By PAUL NEWBERRY
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...
'Small Island' author Andrea Levy dies of cancer aged 62

By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS
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...
Producer of 'Silent Scream' anti-abortion film dies

By JOHN ROGERS
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...
Perennial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche dead at 96

The Associated Press
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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