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Loretta Lynn, coal miner's daughter and country queen, dies

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer
Oct 04, 2022 1:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner's daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her...
Jerzy Urban, spokesman for Polish communist govt, dies at 89

By VANESSA GERA
Oct 03, 2022 7:00 am - WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Jerzy Urban, a spokesman for Poland's communist-era government in the 1980s who masterminded state propaganda and censorship for the regime in the ...
Acclaimed Native American flute player, hoop dancer has died

By GRETCHEN EHLKE
Oct 03, 2022 7:00 am - Kevin Locke, an acclaimed Native American flute player, hoop dancer, cultural ambassador and educator, has died in South Dakota at age 68, according to his family. A ...
Japanese wrestler and politician Antonio Inoki dies at 79

By MARI YAMAGUCHI
Oct 01, 2022 7:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - A popular Japanese professional wrestler and lawmaker Antonio Inoki, who faced a world boxing champion Muhammad Ali in a mixed martial arts match in 1976, h...
Max Baer, Pennsylvania Supreme Court's chief justice, dies

The Associated Press
Oct 01, 2022 7:00 am - PITTSBURGH (AP) - Max Baer, the chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, has died only months before he was set to retire, the court confirmed Saturday. He was 7...
Former US Rep. Mark Souder dead at 72 after cancer battle

The Associated Press
Sep 29, 2022 7:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Mark Souder, a Republican who represented northeastern Indiana in Congress for more than 15 years, has died. He was 72. Souder disclosed in January t...
'Gangsta's Paradise' rapper Coolio dies at age 59

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. and ANDREW DALTON
Sep 29, 2022 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Coolio, the rapper who was among hip-hop's biggest names of the 1990s with hits including 'œGangsta's Paradise'ť and 'œFantastic Voyage,'ť died Wednes...
'Gangsta's Paradise' rapper Coolio dies at age 59

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. and ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writers
Sep 28, 2022 1:00 am - LOS ANGELES — Coolio, the rapper who was among hip-hop's biggest names of the 1990s with hits including “Gangsta's Paradise” and “Fantastic Voyage,” died Wednesday at ag...
'One you could always call on': Longtime Aurora alderman, 58th mayor O'Connor remembered

By Alicia Fabbre
Sep 27, 2022 1:00 am - A longtime alderman who served as Aurora's 58th mayor is being remembered as a dedicated public servant. Robert James O'Connor died at his home on Sept. 15. He was 78. "...
Meredith Tax, feminist author and activist, dead at age 80

By HILLEL ITALIE
Sep 26, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Meredith Tax, a prominent activist and writer of second-wave feminism who challenged herself, her peers and the world at large to rethink long-held ideas...

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