Obituaries
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Pop, country singer Billy Joe Royal dies at age 73
Oct 07, 2015 7:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Billy Joe Royal, a pop singer who popularized the song "Down in the Boondocks," and crossed over into country music, has died. He was 73 years ol...
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Widow of musician Frank Zappa dies at 70
Oct 07, 2015 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gail Zappa, the widow of music legend Frank Zappa, has died at her Los Angeles home. She was 70. Family spokeswoman Marcee Rondan says Zappa was surro...
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Hall of Fame basketball player Harry Gallatin dies
Oct 07, 2015 7:00 am - EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) - Harry Gallatin, the Hall of Fame basketball player who was a seven-time All-Star forward for the New York Knicks in the 1950s, died Wednesday. ...
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Former France goalkeeper Dominique Dropsy dies aged 63
Oct 07, 2015 7:00 am - PARIS (AP) - Former France goalkeeper Dominique Dropsy has died. He was 63. His former club Bordeaux said in a statement that Dropsy, who had 17 caps with France from 19...
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Founder of Spring Valley Community Band dies at 90Oct 07, 2015 1:00 am - Joan Wellander Kleppe, founder of Schaumburg's Spring Valley Concert Band, died late last week at the age of 90. Kleppe also was a retired Chicago Police Department secr...
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Arpad Goncz, Hungary's 1st post-communist president, dies
Oct 06, 2015 7:00 am - BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Arpad Goncz, a much-loved Hungarian writer and translator who survived a communist-era life sentence for taking part in the 1956 anti-Soviet rev...
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Belgian director Chantal Akerman is dead at 65
Oct 06, 2015 7:00 am - BRUSSELS (AP) - The Belgian avant-garde filmmaker Chantal Akerman, whose patient, personal reflections on the lives of women made her a leading figure of arthouse cinema...
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Best-selling Swedish author Henning Mankell dead at age 67
Oct 05, 2015 7:00 am - STOCKHOLM (AP) - Henning Mankell, the internationally renowned Swedish crime writer whose books about the gloomy, soul-searching police inspector Kurt Wallander enticed ...
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Civil rights leader, journalist Jerry Mondesire dies at 65
Oct 05, 2015 7:00 am - PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Former Philadelphia NAACP president J. Whyatt "Jerry" Mondesire, a longtime civil rights activist, editor and publisher, has died. He was 65. Mondesi...
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John Wredling, former St. Charles school leader, dies at 101Oct 05, 2015 1:00 am - John Wredling's passion for the education of St. Charles District 303 students did not end when he retired in 1972. A true St. Charles icon, he would greet students on t...