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Western Sahara independence movement leader Abdelaziz dies

By AOMAR OUALI and ELAINE GANLEY
May 31, 2016 7:00 am - ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Mohamed Abdelaziz, the head and co-founder of the Polisario Front independence movement in the Western Sahara, died Tuesday after a long illness,...
Trinity Broadcasting's Jan Crouch dies days after stroke

The Associated Press
May 31, 2016 7:00 am - ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Televangelist Jan Crouch, who co-founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network with her husband more than four decades ago, died Tuesday just days after ...
German NGO Cap Anamur founder Rupert Neudeck dies at 77

The Associated Press
May 31, 2016 7:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - Rupert Neudeck, the co-founder of Germany-based humanitarian aid group Cap Anamur, which helped to rescue more than 10,000 Vietnamese "boat people," has di...
CBS exec behind popular 1960s and 1970s shows dies at age 94

The Associated Press
May 31, 2016 7:00 am - BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - Michael Dann, the man behind the programming of several 1960s and 1970s CBS shows such as "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," ''60 Minutes" and "The Bev...
Food Lion co-founder Ketner dies at age 95

The Associated Press
May 30, 2016 7:00 am - CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - The co-founder of the Food Lion grocery store chain has died. Food Lion said in a statement that 95-year-old Ralph Ketner died Sunday. Ketner succ...
Shortstop in 1st women's pro baseball league dies at 90

The Associated Press
May 29, 2016 7:00 am - BUZZARDS BAY, Mass. (AP) - A member of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League that was immortalized in the 1992 film "A League of Their Own" has died. Lucil...
Italian theater actor, director Giorgio Albertazzi dies

The Associated Press
May 28, 2016 7:00 am - ROME (AP) - Giorgio Albertazzi, a theater and film actor and director famed especially for playing, well into old age, the emperor's role based on "Memories of Hadrian,"...
Former Carol Stream mayor remembered as 'community-minded,' family man

By Katlyn Smith
May 27, 2016 1:00 am - Whenever Don Swanson flew over the West suburbs at night, the airline pilot always kept a lookout for one landmark. It wasn't an iconic building or a scenic landscape, b...
'Groundhog Day' actress Angela Paton dies at age 86

The Associated Press
May 26, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Angela Paton (PAY-ton), an actress best known for appearing with Bill Murray in "Groundhog Day," has died at age 86. Her nephew George Woolf says Pato...
Dumitru, coach who escaped communist Romania, dies at 76

The Associated Press
May 26, 2016 7:00 am - JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Ted Dumitru, the former South African national soccer team coach whose 40-year career took him from communist Romania to Turkey, Germany, the United ...

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