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Egyptian filmmaker Mohamed Khan has died at 73

The Associated Press
Jul 26, 2016 7:00 am - CAIRO (AP) - One of Egypt's best-known film directors, Mohammed Khan, whose realism shed light on the country's urban landscape since the 1980s, has died. He was 73. Fil...
Luc Hoffman, Swiss ornithologist and naturalist, dead at 93

The Associated Press
Jul 26, 2016 7:00 am - GENEVA (AP) - Dr. Luc Hoffmann, a Swiss ornithologist and naturalist with a passion for wetlands who helped create the World Wildlife Fund for Nature and many other cons...
Longtime Schaumburg library trustee Miller dies

By Eric Peterson
Jul 26, 2016 1:00 am - Debby Miller of Hoffman Estates, who served as one of the guiding trustees of the Schaumburg Township District Library for more than four decades, died Saturday at the a...
San Diego investor, philanthropist Conrad Prebys dies at 82

The Associated Press
Jul 25, 2016 7:00 am - SAN DIEGO (AP) - Conrad Prebys, a major philanthropist in medical research and the arts who made his fortune building and managing apartment buildings in San Diego, has ...
Marni Nixon, voice of classic movie songs, has died at 86

By MARK KENNEDY
Jul 25, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Hollywood voice double Marni Nixon, whose singing was heard in place of the leading actresses in such classic movie musicals as "West Side Story," ''The ...
Tim LaHaye, author of "Left Behind" end-times novels, dies

By RACHEL ZOLL
Jul 25, 2016 7:00 am - The Rev. Tim LaHaye, co-author of the "Left Behind" series, a multimillion-selling literary juggernaut that brought end-times prophecy into mainstream bookstores, died M...
Tim LaHaye, author of 'Left Behind' end times novels, dies

By The Associated Press
Jul 25, 2016 7:00 am - The author of the best-selling "Left Behind" novels about the return of Jesus and the rapture has died. A publicist for the Rev. Tim LaHaye says the novelist died Monday...
Des Plaines chamber leader remembered as “all around a great lady”

By Melissa Silverberg
Jul 25, 2016 1:00 am - Family and colleagues are remembering Barbara Ryan as a dedicated and loving woman who gave her all to help the Des Plaines business community succeed. Ryan, 68, died Sa...
Swedish ex-prime minister Thorbjorn Falldin dead at 90

By MALIN RISING
Jul 24, 2016 7:00 am - STOCKHOLM (AP) - Thorbjorn Falldin, a pipe-smoking sheep farmer who became prime minister in Sweden's first non-Socialist government after World War II, has died at 90. ...
Ex-Lebanon hostage Thomas Sutherland dies in Colorado

The Associated Press
Jul 23, 2016 7:00 am - FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) - Thomas Sutherland, a teacher was held captive in Lebanon for more than six years until he was freed in 1991 and returned home to become profes...

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