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Sports car owner-driver Bruce Leven dies at 79

The Associated Press
Sep 21, 2017 7:00 am - SEATTLE (AP) - Bruce Leven, a self-made businessman whose sports car race teams won the Twelve Hours of Sebring three times in the 1980s, has died at 79. Leven died Sept...
Lillian Ross, longtime New Yorker writer, dead at 99

By HILLEL ITALIE
Sep 20, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Lillian Ross, the ever-watchful New Yorker reporter whose close narrative style defined a memorable and influential 70-year career, including a revealing...
Allman Brothers producer Johnny Sandlin dead at 72

The Associated Press
Sep 20, 2017 7:00 am - DECATUR, Ala. (AP) - An Alabama musician and recording engineer who produced songs for groups including the Allman Brothers Band has died. A funeral home obituary says J...
Jake LaMotta, boxer who inspired 'Raging Bull,' dies at 95

By TIM DAHLBERG
Sep 20, 2017 7:00 am - Jake LaMotta, an iron-fisted battler who brawled his way to a middleweight title and was later memorialized by Robert De Niro in the film "Raging Bull," has died. He was...
Stanislav Petrov, who averted nuclear war, dies at 77

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Sep 19, 2017 7:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - Stanislav Petrov, a former Soviet military officer known in the West as "the man who saved the world" for his role in averting a nuclear war over a false m...
Former UPI executive sports editor Joe Carnicelli dies at 75

The Associated Press
Sep 19, 2017 7:00 am - MESA, Ariz. (AP) - Joe Carnicelli, the executive sports editor for United Press International in the 1970s and '80s who also covered boxing and the NFL, has died. He was...
Pizzas4Patriots founder dies at 58

By Chacour Koop
Sep 19, 2017 1:00 am - Mark Evans, an Elk Grove Village resident and military veteran known for shipping thousands of pizzas to troops overseas, died last Friday. He was 58. Evans was lauded ...
Bolshoi opera singer Zurab Sotkilava dies at 80

The Associated Press
Sep 18, 2017 7:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - Moscow's Bolshoi Theater has announced that renowned Soviet and Russian opera singer Zurab Sotkilava has died. He was 80. The Bolshoi announced Sotkilava's...
Former NCHSAA executive director Adams dies at 81

The Associated Press
Sep 17, 2017 7:00 am - CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - Charlie Adams, the former North Carolina High School Athletic Association executive director, died Sunday. He was 81. NCHSAA spokesman James Alv...
Penny Chenery, owner of Triple Crown champ Secretariat, dies

By BETH HARRIS
Sep 17, 2017 7:00 am - Penny Chenery, who bred and raced 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat as well as realizing her ailing father's dream to win the Kentucky Derby in 1972 with Riva Ridge, ...

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