Obituaries
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Actress Rose Marie of 'Dick Van Dyke Show' fame dies at 94
Dec 29, 2017 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Rose Marie chafed at being a supporting player in the shadow of Mary Tyler Moore's fetching suburban housewife on "The Dick Van Dyke Show." But it was...
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Sue Grafton, writer of popular 'alphabet' mysteries, dies
Dec 29, 2017 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sue Grafton, author of the best-selling "alphabet series" of mystery novels, has died in Santa Barbara. She was 77. Grafton was surrounded by family, ...
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Oscar-winning film editor Thomas Stanford dies at 93
Dec 29, 2017 6:00 am - SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Thomas Stanford, who was known for his award-winning editing work on "West Side Story," has died. He was 93. His family says in a newspaper announc...
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Holland, psychiatrist who helped cancer patients cope, dies
Dec 28, 2017 6:00 am - SCARSDALE, N.Y. (AP) - A psychiatrist who pioneered the field of psycho-oncology to help patients cope with the emotional impact of cancer has died. Dr. Jimmie Coker Hol...
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Actress Rose Marie of 'Dick Van Dyke Show' fame dies at 94
Dec 28, 2017 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Rose Marie, the wisecracking Sally Rogers of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and a show business lifer who began as a bobbed-hair child star in vaudeville an...
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These suburban men killed in Vietnam have no photos for the 'Wall of Faces'Dec 28, 2017 4:00 am - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund is looking for photos of these suburban men killed in Vietnam for its "Wall of Faces," a digital roster of images that show the human ...
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Why group wants photos of every service member killed in VietnamDec 28, 2017 4:00 am - YouTube The son of an Elmhurst native, Johnson was mortally wounded in 2012 by an improvised explosive device in one of the country's most dangerous regions. Images of J...
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One month after dropping puck at Blackhawks game, Mount Prospect 10-year-old diesDec 28, 2017 12:00 am - Less than one month after dropping the puck with Eddie Olczyk at the Blackhawks' "Hockey Fights Cancer" night, Lauren Graver, a 10-year-old Mount Prospect girl, died fro...
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Jack Van Berg, Hall of Famer who trained Alysheba, dies
Dec 27, 2017 6:00 am - Jack Van Berg, a Hall of Fame trainer who oversaw Alysheba to victories in the 1987 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, died Wednesday. He was 81. He died in a Little Rock, Ar...
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Connecticut news radio veteran Fran Schneidau dies at 79
Dec 27, 2017 6:00 am - HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A longtime WCBS radio reporter whose distinctive voice could be heard delivering Connecticut news for 39 years has died. Fran Schneidau had retire...