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Pop, country singer Billy Joe Royal dies at age 73

Associated Press
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...
Widow of musician Frank Zappa dies at 70

The Associated Press
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...
Hall of Fame basketball player Harry Gallatin dies

The Associated Press
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. ...
Former France goalkeeper Dominique Dropsy dies aged 63

The Associated Press
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...
Founder of Spring Valley Community Band dies at 90

By Eric Peterson
Oct 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...
Arpad Goncz, Hungary's 1st post-communist president, dies

By PABLO GORONDI
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...
Belgian director Chantal Akerman is dead at 65

By RAF CASERT and JAKE COYLE
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...
Best-selling Swedish author Henning Mankell dead at age 67

By MALIN RISING
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 ...
Civil rights leader, journalist Jerry Mondesire dies at 65

The Associated Press
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...
John Wredling, former St. Charles school leader, dies at 101

By Susan Sarkauskas
Oct 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...

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