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William Armstrong, ex-US senator for Colorado, dies at 79

By DAN ELLIOTT
Jul 06, 2016 7:00 am - DENVER (AP) - William L. Armstrong, a Colorado media executive who became a major conservative voice in the Senate, died Tuesday after a five-year battle with cancer. He...
The Latest: Chicago mayor, justices react to Mikva's death

The Associated Press
Jul 05, 2016 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - The Latest on the death of Abner Mikva (all times local): 3:15 p.m. Tributes have continued to pour in for Abner Mikva, the longtime statesman from Illino...
Noel Neill, first actress to play Lois Lane, dies at 95

The Associated Press
Jul 05, 2016 7:00 am - TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - The actress who was the first to play Superman's love interest, Lois Lane, on screen has died. Noel Neill was 95. Neill's biographer Larry Ward tell...
Abner Mikva, ex-congressman, judge from Illinois, dies at 90

By MICHAEL TARM
Jul 05, 2016 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Abner Mikva, a liberal stalwart from Illinois who served in all three branches of the federal government, mentored a young Barack Obama and famously learn...
Margaret Schlickman remembered for her 'dedication and commitment'

By Eileen O. Daday
Jul 05, 2016 1:00 am - Housing advocate, former legislative staffer dies at 86
Maine West girls basketball coach Derril Kipp dies

By John Leusch
Jul 05, 2016 1:00 am - Heavy hearts prevailed throughout the Illinois high school girls basketball world Tuesday with the passing of Derril Kipp, the fifth-winningest girls basketball coach in...
Liberal stalwart Abner Mikva dies at 90

Daily Herald wire services
Jul 05, 2016 1:00 am - Abner Mikva, who represented the northern suburbs in Congress and launched into Democratic politics after being famously rebuffed by a Chicago ward boss, has died at age...
Acclaimed Iranian film director Kiarostami dies at age 76

By NASSER KARIMI
Jul 04, 2016 7:00 am - TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, whose 1997 film "Taste of Cherry" won the prestigious Palme d'Or and who kept working despite government resistanc...
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author, dead at 87

By VERENA DOBNIK
Jul 03, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, the Romanian-born Holocaust survivor whose classic "Night" became a landmark testament to the Nazis' crimes and launched Wies...
Elie Wiesel was a witness to evil and a symbol of endurance

By VERENA DOBNIK
Jul 03, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The frail, dapper man who sometimes greeted reporters in his Madison Avenue office spoke in an almost hushed voice, but with urgency, his hands gesturing...

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