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Medtronic co-founder who created wearable pacemaker dies

The Associated Press
Oct 22, 2018 7:00 am - MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Earl Bakken, an electronics repairman who created the first wearable external pacemaker and co-founded one of the world's largest medical device compa...
Gilberto Benetton, a founder of fashion brand, dies at 77

By COLLEEN BARRY
Oct 22, 2018 7:00 am - MILAN (AP) - Gilberto Benetton, one of the four founding siblings of the iconic Benetton fashion brand known as much for its provocative ad campaigns as its colorful kni...
Charles Wang, former New York Islanders owner, dies at 74

The Associated Press
Oct 21, 2018 7:00 am - OYSTER BAY, N.Y. (AP) - Charles Wang, a technology company founder and former owner of the New York Islanders hockey team, died Sunday. He was 74. Wang died of lung canc...
Richard Violette Jr., horse trainer and advocate, dies at 65

The Associated Press
Oct 21, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Richard Violette Jr., a thoroughbred trainer who advocated tirelessly on behalf of racetrack backstretch workers and improved care for retired racehorses...
Arlington Heights neighbors rally around couple whose son died in accident

Daily Herald report
Oct 21, 2018 1:00 am - Neighbors of an Arlington Heights couple whose 31-year-old son died suddenly from an electric shock while working in the family's garage last Sunday are tying white ribb...
Silenced forever: Saudi Arabia admits Khashoggi is dead

By SARAH EL DEEB
Oct 20, 2018 7:00 am - BEIRUT (AP) - Two days after Jamal Khashoggi vanished into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, The Washington Post published a column featuring his byline and the headline ...
Former Dutch PM Wim Kok dies at 80, haunted by Srebrenica

By MIKE CORDER
Oct 20, 2018 7:00 am - THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Former Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok, a trade unionist-turned-politician who inspired a new breed of pragmatic Social Democratic leaders who...
Silenced forever: Saudi Arabia admits Khashoggi is dead

By SARAH EL DEEB
Oct 19, 2018 7:00 am - BEIRUT (AP) - Two days after Jamal Khashoggi vanished into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, The Washington Post published a column featuring his byline and the headline ...
Todd Bol, founder of Little Free Library book sharing, dies

The Associated Press
Oct 18, 2018 7:00 am - HUDSON, Wis. (AP) - The Wisconsin man who founded the Little Free Library, a nonprofit that began with a dollhouse-like box of free books in his front yard and ballooned...
Turkish photographer Ara Guler dead at 90

The Associated Press
Oct 18, 2018 7:00 am - ISTANBUL (AP) - Ara Guler, an acclaimed Turkish journalist and photographer known as "the Eye of Istanbul" for his iconic black-and-white pictures of the city and its re...

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