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Actress who played British TV witch Grotbags dies

The Associated Press
Jul 06, 2017 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Carol Lee Scott, the actress best-known for entertaining British children on television as the colorful TV witch Grotbags, has died. She was 74. The entert...
Gene Conley, MLB and NBA champion, dies at 86

The Associated Press
Jul 05, 2017 7:00 am - BOSTON (AP) - Gene Conley, one of the only players in history to win championships in two major professional sports, has died. He was 86. The Boston Red Sox, for whom Co...
Russian author Daniil Granin dies at 98

The Associated Press
Jul 05, 2017 7:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - Daniil Granin, a Russian author who wrote a chronicle of the Nazi siege of Leningrad and several widely popular novels, has died. He was 98. Granin, a Worl...
Pope John Paul II's longtime spokesman dies at age 80

By VICTOR L. SIMPSON
Jul 05, 2017 7:00 am - ROME (AP) - Joaquin Navarro-Valls, a suave, silver-haired Spaniard who was a close confidant of Pope John Paul II, serving for more than two decades as chief Vatican spo...
Prince's former drummer dies at 43 in Florida

The Associated Press
Jul 04, 2017 7:00 am - TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - One of Prince's drummers, 43-year-old John Blackwell Jr., has died in Florida. Blackwell's wife, Yaritza Blackwell, said in a post Tuesday on his offi...
Comic TV and film actor, Paolo Villaggio, 84, dies in Rome

The Associated Press
Jul 03, 2017 7:00 am - ROME (AP) - Paolo Villaggio, a comic actor whose invented workplace characters interpreted Italians' foibles, died Monday in Rome at 84. His children said Villaggio had ...
Actress and internet star Stevie Ryan dead at 33

The Associated Press
Jul 03, 2017 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Stevie Ryan, an actress and comedian who gained fame with impersonations of celebrities on YouTube, has died. She was 33. Los Angeles County coroner's...
Elgin mental health advocate dies at 62

By Madhu Krishnamurthy
Jul 03, 2017 1:00 am - Compassionate, funny, dedicated and a visionary. That's how colleagues describe Lisa LaForge, an Elgin advocate for mental health services for children and families. LaF...
Former Greek Olympic Committee President Minos Kyriakou dies

The Associated Press
Jul 02, 2017 7:00 am - ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greek media mogul Minos Kyriakou, a former president of the country's Olympic Committee, has died. He was 75. Kyriakou died Sunday of a heart attac...
Famed tennis photographer Russ Adams dies at 86

The Associated Press
Jul 01, 2017 7:00 am - NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) - Acclaimed tennis photographer Russ Adams has died after chronicling the sport for more than 50 years. He was 86. The International Tennis Hall of Fa...

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