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Broadway giant James 'Jimmy' Nederlander dies at 94

By MARK KENNEDY
Jul 26, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - James M. Nederlander, who took over the fledgling Nederlander Organization from his father and built it into one of the largest producers of live enterta...
Irish jockey paralyzed after falling off horse dies aged 41

The Associated Press
Jul 26, 2016 7:00 am - DUBLIN (AP) - JT McNamara, an Irish jockey who was paralyzed following a fall at the Cheltenham Festival in 2013, has died. He was 41. McNamara's death was announced by ...
Actress who played TV psychic Miss Cleo dies of cancer at 53

By TERRY SPENCER
Jul 26, 2016 7:00 am - FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - The actress who became famous playing the Jamaican psychic Miss Cleo, claiming to know callers' futures in ubiquitous TV infomercials and co...
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...

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