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Ajax winger Piet Keizer, star of 1970s team, dies at age 73

The Associated Press
Feb 11, 2017 6:00 am - THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Ajax winger Piet Keizer, part of the front line that took the Amsterdam team to the summit of world club football in the early 1970s, has d...
Lt. Gen. Hal Moore dies; depicted in film 'We Were Soldiers'

By CHEVEL JOHNSON
Feb 11, 2017 6:00 am - Retired Lt. Gen. Harold G. "Hal" Moore, the American hero known for saving most of his men in the first major battle between the U.S. and North Vietnamese armies, has di...
New York man who completed 744 marathons dies at age 96

The Associated Press
Feb 10, 2017 6:00 am - ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - Don McNelly, known worldwide for powering through marathon runs and running up record totals into his 70s and 80s, has died. A retired paper compa...
Bosnian Serb convicted of genocide in Srebrenica dies

The Associated Press
Feb 10, 2017 6:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - Ljubisa Beara, a former senior Bosnian Serb security officer convicted of genocide by a U.N. war crimes tribunal for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, has died...
Detroit Tigers, Red Wings owner Mike Ilitch dies at age 87

By COREY WILLIAMS and NOAH TRISTER
Feb 10, 2017 6:00 am - DETROIT (AP) - Billionaire businessman Mike Ilitch, who founded the Little Caesars pizza empire before buying the Detroit Red Wings and the Detroit Tigers, and won prais...
Barbara Gelb, Eugene O'Neill biographer, dead at 91

The Associated Press
Feb 09, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Barbara Gelb, an author and journalist who with her husband Arthur Gelb collaborated on three extensive books about playwright Eugene O'Neill, has died. ...
Oldest American, Adele Dunlap, dies at age 114

The Associated Press
Feb 09, 2017 6:00 am - FLEMINGTON, N.J. (AP) - Adele Dunlap, the oldest person in America, has died at age 114. Dunlap died Sunday at a hospital near Flemington, according to the Martin Funera...
Peter Mansfield, Nobel winner for work on MRI, dies at 83

The Associated Press
Feb 09, 2017 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Physicist Peter Mansfield, who won the Nobel Prize for helping to invent MRI scanners, has died at the age of 83. The University of Nottingham released a s...
Packy, Oregon's beloved elephant, dies at 54

By STEVEN DUBOIS
Feb 09, 2017 6:00 am - PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Packy, the Asian elephant who drew international attention when he was born, including an 11-page spread in Life magazine, died Thursday at the Ore...
Former longtime Des Plaines alderman Kisslinger dies, family says

By Chacour Koop
Feb 09, 2017 12:00 am - Dan Kisslinger, a longtime Des Plaines alderman, died Jan. 28 in Columbus, Ohio, family members said. He was 92. Kisslinger served as 4th Ward alderman during three deca...

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