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Al Abrams, Motown Records' 1st press officer, dies at 74

By JEFF KAROUB
Oct 04, 2015 7:00 am - DETROIT (AP) - Al Abrams, the founding press officer and publicist for Motown Records, died Saturday following a battle with cancer, his wife said. He was 74. Born in De...
Former UK Treasury secretary Denis Healey dies at 98

By GREGORY KATZ
Oct 03, 2015 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Decorated World War II military hero and former British Treasury chief Denis Healey has died after a long career in British politics. He was 98. His family...
Four killed in South Carolina plane crash from Indiana

Associated Press
Oct 03, 2015 1:00 am - WALHALLA, S.C. - Authorities say all four people who died in a plane crash in South Carolina were from northern Indiana. The men were flying from Warsaw, Indiana, to Cle...
Notable death last week: Irish playwright; sprint car champion

Associated Press
Oct 03, 2015 1:00 am - • A former top racecar driver was among four Indiana men who died Friday in a plane crash while traveling to the Notre Dame-Clemson football game. The wreckage of the Pi...
Former Wood Dale Mayor 'always had a smile on his face'

By Erin Hegarty
Oct 03, 2015 1:00 am - Wood Dale's longest serving mayor, Jerry Greer, died Friday after he and his wife Yvonne were in a car crash near their home in Cass City, Michigan. Greer, 79, served as...
Irish playwright Brian Friel, famed for 'Lughnasa,' dies

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK
Oct 02, 2015 7:00 am - DUBLIN (AP) - Brian Friel distrusted the reliability of mere facts. Ireland's greatest playwright of his generation, who died Friday at the age of 86, spent much of his ...
'Towering Inferno' director John Guillermin dies at 89

The Associated Press
Oct 01, 2015 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - John Guillermin, a veteran British director best known for bringing to life big budget adventure films like "The Towering Inferno" and the 1976 "King ...
Leading jazz alto saxophonist Phil Woods dies at age 83

By CHARLES J. GANS
Sep 30, 2015 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Phil Woods, a leading alto saxophonist in mainstream jazz for more than 60 years whose piercing solos could also be heard on hit records by Billy Joel an...
Relative: Leon Varjian, known UW prankster, dies at 64

The Associated Press
Sep 30, 2015 7:00 am - MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Leon Varjian, who came to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1970s to study in "the graduate school of fun" and ended up masterminding such ...
Services Oct. 9 for longtime Arlington Park executive Thayer

By Ross Forman Special to the Daily Herald
Sep 30, 2015 1:00 am - Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct the date of the services. William A. Thayer Jr., a longtime racing executive whose connections in the sport ex...

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