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Dave Anderson, sports columnist, Pulitzer winner, dies at 89

By RONALD BLUM
Oct 05, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Dave Anderson, a genteel sports writer whose elegant, descriptive prose won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary as a columnist for The New York Times, died T...
'The Hate U Give' screenwriter Audrey Wells dies at 58

By LINDSEY BAHR
Oct 05, 2018 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Audrey Wells, who wrote the screenplay for the brand new feature film "The Hate U Give," died the day before the film was released after a five-year b...
Will Vinton, animator behind the California Raisins, dies

The Associated Press
Oct 05, 2018 7:00 am - PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Will Vinton, an Oscar-winning animator who invented Claymation, a style of stop-motion animation, and brought the California Raisins to TV, has die...
Gym temporarily closes after boy dies in accident

By Katlyn Smith
Oct 05, 2018 1:00 am - A children's gym in Wheaton has closed temporarily in the wake of an accident involving a 7-year-old Glen Ellyn boy who died Tuesday. Brady Daniel Doherty, a second-grad...
Busboy who comforted Robert Kennedy after he was shot dies

By JOHN ROGERS and RUSSELL CONTRERAS
Oct 04, 2018 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - When Robert F. Kennedy decided to duck through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after declaring victory in the 1968 Democratic presi...
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman dies at 96

By KEITH RIDLER
Oct 03, 2018 7:00 am - BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Leon Lederman, an experimental physicist who won a Nobel Prize in physics for his work on subatomic particles and coined the phrase "God particle," d...
Beatles recording engineer Geoff Emerick dies at 72

By GREGORY KATZ
Oct 03, 2018 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Geoff Emerick, the Beatles studio engineer who entered the music business in his mid-teens and by his early 20s had helped make history through his work on...
Real Peggy Sue, of 1958 Buddy Holly song fame, dies in Texas

The Associated Press
Oct 02, 2018 7:00 am - LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - The Texas woman who inspired the 1958 Buddy Holly song "Peggy Sue" has died at a Lubbock hospital. Peggy Sue Gerron Rackham of Lubbock died Monday ...
Longtime Elgin teacher, youth coach remembered for dedication to children

By Madhu Krishnamurthy
Oct 02, 2018 1:00 am - This story has been updated to state that Robert Pleticha was a Vietnam War-era veteran. A lifelong teacher, mentor and coach to Elgin-area youth, Robert "Bob" L. P...
Vietnam's former Communist Party Chief Do Muoi dies at 101

The Associated Press
Oct 01, 2018 7:00 am - HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Do Muoi, who worked against the French colonial government and bec...

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