Obituaries
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Vernon Hills police officer dies of cancerFeb 17, 2016 12:00 am - A decorated Vernon Hills police officer succumbed to esophageal cancer Wednesday. Officer Andy Rheintgen had been with the department for 17 years, first as a commun...
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Singer, actress Denise Matthews, known as Vanity, dies
Feb 16, 2016 6:00 am - Vanity, a Prince protege who renounced her sexy stage persona to become a Christian minister, has died. She was 57. The singer and actress, born Denise Matthews, died Mo...
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali, first UN chief from Africa, dies
Feb 16, 2016 6:00 am - CAIRO (AP) - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, a veteran Egyptian diplomat who helped negotiate his country's landmark peace deal with Israel but then clashed with the United State...
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Longtime baker, partner remembered as part of Jarosch's successFeb 16, 2016 12:00 am - Joseph Stephan dies at age 88
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Correction: Croatia-Obit-Denzinger story
Feb 15, 2016 6:00 am - ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) - In some versions of a story Feb. 14 about the death of suspected former Nazi prison guard Jakob Denzinger, The Associated Press reported erroneous...
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Former Chrysler Chair John J. Riccardo dies at age 91
Feb 15, 2016 6:00 am - DETROIT (AP) - Former Chrysler Chair John J. Riccardo has died. He was 91. The Rev. John C. Riccardo says Monday that his father died Saturday. The Detroit Free Press re...
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Pulitzer prize-winning composer Steven Stucky dies at 66
Feb 15, 2016 6:00 am - ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) - A Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, longtime Cornell University faculty member and resident composer with the Los Angeles Philharmonic has died. Steve...
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Warren Manzi, writer of long-running 'Perfect Crime,' dies
Feb 15, 2016 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Playwright and director Warren Manzi, whose cat-and-mouse thriller "Perfect Crime" is the longest-running play in New York history, died Thursday of pneu...
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Justice Antonin Scalia, influential conservative, dead at 79
Feb 14, 2016 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Antonin Scalia, the influential conservative and most provocative member of the Supreme Court, has died, leaving the high court without its conservativ...
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Czech designer, architect Borek Sipek dies at age 66
Feb 13, 2016 6:00 am - PRAGUE (AP) - Borek Sipek, Czech architect and designer best known in his country for his work for late President Vaclav Havel has died. He was 66. Prague's Vaclav Havel...