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Oscar-nominated actress Sondra Locke dies at 74

By ANDREW DALTON
Dec 13, 2018 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Actress and director Sondra Locke, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her first film role in 1968's "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" and went on...
Half of iconic Bert & I duo dies 60 years after recording

By DAVID SHARP
Dec 13, 2018 6:00 am - PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Bob Bryan, one half of the comedy duo Bert and I, which had fun at the expense of Maine Yankees and popularized the immortal punchline, "You can't...
Holocaust survivor killed by car while crossing street

The Associated Press
Dec 13, 2018 6:00 am - PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A 92-year-old man who survived Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust was struck and killed by a car while crossing a street near his home i...
Jazz legend Nancy Wilson dies at 81

By Andrew Dawlton and Hillel Italie Associated Press
Dec 13, 2018 12:00 am - LOS ANGELES — Nancy Wilson, the Grammy-winning “song stylist” and torch singer whose polished pop-jazz vocals made her a platinum artist and top concert performer, has d...
Hungarian director Ferenc Kosa, winner in Cannes, dies at 81

By PABLO GORONDI
Dec 12, 2018 6:00 am - BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Ferenc Kosa, winner of the best director award at the 1967 Cannes film festival, has died at 81, the Hungarian Academy of Arts said Wednesday. K...
Floyd Parton, brother of Dolly Parton, has died

The Associated Press
Dec 11, 2018 6:00 am - SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Floyd Estel Parton, the brother of country singer Dolly Parton, has died. An obituary posted by Atchley Funeral Home in Sevierville, Tennessee,...
'Like a second father': Former St. Charles High School athletic director Bergeson dies at 91

By Lauren Rohr
Dec 11, 2018 12:00 am - A couple of years ago, one of Paul Bergeson's former students approached his son and said, "Your dad believed in me when nobody else believed in me." That moment has bec...
Man who claimed Howard Hughes inheritance dies in Nevada

By KEN RITTER
Dec 10, 2018 6:00 am - LAS VEGAS (AP) - Melvin Dummar died never seeing the $156 million that he argued for decades that eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes unexpectedly bequeathed to him for ...
Former Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland dies at 90

The Associated Press
Dec 09, 2018 6:00 am - ROSEAU, Minn. (AP) - Former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland, a farmer from northern Minnesota who was tasked with selling President Jimmy Carter's unpopular Sovi...
African-American North Carolina voting rights activist dies

The Associated Press
Dec 09, 2018 6:00 am - LOUISBURG, N.C. (AP) - Rosanell Eaton, an African-American voting rights activist who successfully helped challenge voting restrictions supported by North Carolina Repub...

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