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Nation's oldest World War II vet dies in Texas at age 112

By PAUL J. WEBER
Dec 27, 2018 6:00 am - AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Richard Overton, the nation's oldest World War II veteran who was also believed to be the oldest living man in the U.S., died Thursday in Texas, a f...
'Brian Beam made the world a better place': Elk Grove college student dies of cancer

By Russell Lissau
Dec 27, 2018 12:00 am - This story was amended to correct the days of the visitation and funeral. A 20-year-old Elk Grove Village resident who died of a rare and aggressive type of brain c...
Art historian Sister Wendy Beckett has died. She was 88

The Associated Press
Dec 26, 2018 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Sister Wendy Beckett, an art historian and critic who rose to prominence on TV late in life, has died. She was 88. The Carmelite Monastery of Quidenham sai...
Sigi Schmid, winningest MLS coach, dies at 65

The Associated Press
Dec 26, 2018 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sigi Schmid, the winningest coach in MLS history, has died. He was 65. Schmid's family said he died Tuesday at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Schm...
1962 World Cup final striker Jozef Adamec dies, aged 76

The Associated Press
Dec 24, 2018 6:00 am - BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) - Former Czechoslovakia striker Jozef Adamec, the youngest member of the team beaten 3-1 by Brazil in the final of the 1962 World Cup in Chile,...
Report: High-ranking Iranian cleric dies at 70

The Associated Press
Dec 24, 2018 6:00 am - TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's state TV is reporting that Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, head of the Expediency Council advisory body to the country's Supreme Leader, ...
Warsaw ghetto uprising fighter Simcha Rotem dies at 94

By ARON HELLER
Dec 23, 2018 6:00 am - JERUSALEM (AP) - Simcha Rotem, an Israeli Holocaust survivor who was among the last known Jewish fighters from the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis, has die...
Saudi prince who called for reforms dies at 87

The Associated Press
Dec 23, 2018 6:00 am - RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Prayers were held Sunday for Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz, a senior member of the royal family who supported women's rights and once led a grou...
Ken Foreman, Seattle Pacific coaching great, dead at 96

The Associated Press
Dec 23, 2018 6:00 am - SEATTLE (AP) - Ken Foreman, the longtime Seattle Pacific track coach who was the head women's coach of the 1980 U.S. Olympic team that boycotted the Moscow Games, died S...
Former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown has died at 77

By GREGORY KATZ
Dec 22, 2018 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Britain's Liberal Democrat party has announced the death of former leader Paddy Ashdown after a short illness. He was 77. The popular, articulate Ashdown w...

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