Obituaries
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Former Fed board member J. Dewey Daane has died
Jan 04, 2017 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - J. Dewey Daane, a noted expert on monetary policy who was nominated to serve on the Federal Reserve board by President John F. Kennedy, has died. He wa...
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Correction: Bishop Thomas Dupre stories
Jan 04, 2017 6:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - In stories on Nov. 24, 2014; Dec. 1, 2014; and Jan. 2, 2017, about former Bishop Thomas Dupre, The Associated Press reported erroneously that h...
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George Kosana, sheriff in 'Night of the Living Dead,' dies
Jan 03, 2017 6:00 am - George Kosana, who played the beefy Sheriff McClelland in the 1968 cult zombie film, "Night of the Living Dead," has died. He was 81. Longtime friend John Russo said Kos...
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Iva Drapalova, former AP Prague correspondent, dies at 91
Jan 03, 2017 6:00 am - PRAGUE (AP) - Iva Drapalova, a former Associated Press correspondent in Prague who covered Czechoslovakia with courage for two decades following the 1968 Soviet-led inva...
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1st bishop indicted in US on sexual-abuse claim dies at 83
Jan 03, 2017 6:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - Former Bishop Thomas Dupre, the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States to be indicted on a sexual-abuse claim during the flood of abu...
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Veteran TV, stage director Jeffrey Hayden dies at 90
Jan 03, 2017 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jeffrey Hayden, who directed early live TV plays with stars including James Dean and who worked with wife Eva Marie Saint on screen and stage, has die...
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Willow Creek recalls founding member who shaped church's lookJan 03, 2017 12:00 am - A founding member of Willow Creek Community Church whose leadership and vision helped shape the footprint of its South Barrington campus and expansion into other suburbs...
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Hilarion Capucci, priest and Middle East activist, dies
Jan 02, 2017 6:00 am - VATICAN CITY (AP) - Monsignor Hilarion Capucci, who was a Greek Melkite Catholic archbishop in Jerusalem when Israel convicted him in 1976 of using his diplomatic status...
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Skier Jean Vuarnet, who struck gold with tuck position, dies
Jan 02, 2017 6:00 am - PARIS (AP) - Olympic skiing champion Jean Vuarnet, who helped pioneer the aerodynamic tuck position for downhill racers but suffered tragedy with the deaths of his wife ...
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John Berger, pioneering art critic and author, dies at 90
Jan 02, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - John Berger, the British art critic, intellectual and prodigious author whose pioneering 1972 book and the BBC series it spawned, "Ways of Seeing," redef...