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'Coronation Street' creator Tony Warren dies at 79

By JILL LAWLESS
Mar 02, 2016 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - British writer Tony Warren, who created the long-running soap opera "Coronation Street," has died at 79. The show he leaves behind is 56 years old, a natio...
Pioneering Oklahoma energy CEO dies in fiery car crash

By SEAN MURPHY
Mar 02, 2016 6:00 am - OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Aubrey McClendon, a natural gas industry titan, was killed when police say he drove his sport utility vehicle "straight into a wall" in Oklahoma Cit...
Reaction to the death Thursday of Martin Crowe

The Associated Press
Mar 02, 2016 6:00 am - WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Reaction on Thursday to the death of former New Zealand cricket captain Martin Crowe, from lymphoma at the age of 53: ____ "My champion, m...
UK author Louise Rennison, witty writer for teens, dies

The Associated Press
Mar 01, 2016 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - British writer Louise Rennison, author of the hit young-adult novel "Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging," has died. Her publisher, HarperCollins, twee...
Jim Kimsey, AOL co-founder, dies at 76

By TALI ARBEL
Mar 01, 2016 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Jim Kimsey, the co-founder of Web pioneer AOL, has died of cancer at age 76. He died Tuesday morning in his home in McLean, Virginia, said his son, Mark ...
Lee Reherman, 'Hawk' on 'American Gladiators,' dead at 49

By JOHN ROGERS
Mar 01, 2016 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Lee Reherman, the former Ivy League football star who shot to fame as the towering, muscular Hawk on the popular 1990s television show "American Gladi...
Elmhurst doctor remembered for commitment to family

By Robert Sanchez
Mar 01, 2016 12:00 am - Dr. Richard Marshall Cronin, the father of DuPage County Board Chairman Dan Cronin, is being remembered for his commitment to patients, friends and, most of all, family....
Former Cologne star Hannes Loehr is dead at 73

The Associated Press
Feb 29, 2016 6:00 am - COLOGNE, Germany (AP) - Cologne says its former star forward Hannes Loehr died Monday. He was 73. The club did not give the cause of death, but Loehr had a stroke one ye...
Tough-guy journeyman actor George Kennedy dies at 91

By LINDSEY BAHR
Feb 29, 2016 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - George Kennedy, the hulking, tough-guy character actor who won an Academy Award for his portrayal of a savage chain-gang convict in the 1960s classic ...
Former actor, Detroit councilman Gil Hill dies at 84

By COREY WILLIAMS
Feb 29, 2016 6:00 am - DETROIT (AP) - Gil Hill, a former Detroit city councilman and one-time mayoral candidate better known to action movie fans as the salty-tongued police Inspector Douglas ...

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