Obituaries
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Funeral home: Motown Funk Brother fret man Eddie Willis dies
Aug 20, 2018 7:00 am - DETROIT (AP) - A funeral home director says Eddie Willis, a key session guitarist for Motown Records, has died at his Mississippi home. Clark-Williams Funeral Home Direc...
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Pearl Harbor survivor who pushed to identify 'unknowns' dies
Aug 20, 2018 7:00 am - HONOLULU (AP) - A Pearl Harbor survivor who pushed to identify buried unknown remains from the 1941 attack died Monday at age 97. Ray Emory lived through the early morni...
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Pacifist, socialist leader David McReynolds dead at 88
Aug 18, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Longtime pacifist and socialist activist David McReynolds has died at age 88. McReynolds has died Friday in a hospital after falling in his New York City...
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Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan dies at age 80
Aug 18, 2018 7:00 am - ACCRA, Ghana (AP) - Kofi Annan, a charismatic global diplomat and the first black African to become United Nations secretary-general who led the world body through one o...
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Former Detroit Lions LB Paul Naumoff dies at 73
Aug 18, 2018 7:00 am - LENOIR CITY, Tenn. (AP) - Paul Naumoff, the former Pro Bowl linebacker who spent 12 seasons with the Detroit Lions, has died. He was 73. Larry Click, funeral director at...
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Global reactions to death of former UN chief Kofi Annan
Aug 18, 2018 7:00 am - GENEVA (AP) - Reactions to the death of Kofi Annan, the first black African to become U.N. secretary-general and a Nobel Peace Prize winner who died early Saturday at ag...
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The Latest: US's Pompeo sends condolences over Annan's death
Aug 18, 2018 7:00 am - GENEVA (AP) - The Latest on the death of former U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan (all times local) 3 a.m. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed his sadness over...
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Funeral set for Schaumburg father killed in crashAug 18, 2018 1:00 am - The last time Maria Borla saw Amando Chavez he was sitting in the front pew of their Schaumburg church. His two oldest children were celebrating the end of their Bible c...
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Former Iowa Congressman Leonard Boswell dies
Aug 17, 2018 7:00 am - DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Former U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell, an Iowa farmer and soldier turned politician who served 16 years in Congress, has died. He was 84. The Democrat...
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Founder of therapeutic equestrian center in Lake Forest was loyal friend, philanthropistAug 17, 2018 1:00 am - Friends described Nick Coyne as an amazing philanthropist, a loyal friend and devoted father, who would give the shirt off his back to a person in need. Coyne, founder ...