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Cory Wells, Three Dog Night singer, dies in New York at 74

The Associated Press
Oct 21, 2015 7:00 am - DUNKIRK, N.Y. (AP) - Cory Wells, a founding member of the popular 1970s band Three Dog Night and lead singer on such hits as "Never Been to Spain" and "Mama Told Me (Not...
Actress on 'Petticoat Junction' dies

The Associated Press
Oct 19, 2015 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Pat Woodell, a former actress and singer who played the brainy sister Bobbie Jo Bradley for two seasons in the 1960s sitcom "Petticoat Junction," has die...
Late Daily Herald reporter to be honored at Lake County courthouse

By Russell Lissau
Oct 19, 2015 1:00 am - Three years after his death, former Daily Herald legal affairs reporter Tony Gordon will be honored next month at the courthouse where he worked for years. The judges of...
Co-founder of Elgin restaurant dies at 77

By Scott C. Morgan
Oct 18, 2015 7:30 am - Stella Paul, a co-founder of Paul's Family Restaurant at Lawrence Avenue and McLean Boulevard in Elgin, died on Thursday, Oct. 15. For the past 15 years Paul, 77, had b...
Former Everton manager Howard Kendall dies at age 69

The Associated Press
Oct 17, 2015 7:00 am - LIVERPOOL, England (AP) - Howard Kendall, who led Everton to two league championships and a European title in the mid-1980s in the first of three coaching spells with th...
Notable deaths this week: ABC news medical reporter; ex-ambassador who saved Americans in Iran

From Daily Herald wire reports
Oct 17, 2015 1:00 am - • Jamie Zimmerman, a doctor and reporter with ABC News' medical unit, has drowned while on vacation in Hawaii. She was 31. Zimmerman apparently lost her footing while tr...
Red Sox 'lifetime' scout has died; hit flies to Yaz

The Associated Press
Oct 16, 2015 7:00 am - BOSTON (AP) - The Red Sox are mourning the death of former prospect and scout Chuck Koney. The team says Koney died on Monday in Orland Park, Illinois, at the age of 90....
Leader behind Vermont aid-in-dying law uses it, ends life

By DAVE GRAM
Oct 16, 2015 7:00 am - MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Richard "Dick" Walters, a leader in the effort to get the state to pass aid-in-dying legislation, used the rules established under the law to end ...
Canadian envoy who hid Americans during hostage crisis dies

By ROB GILLIES
Oct 15, 2015 7:00 am - TORONTO (AP) - Ken Taylor, Canada's ambassador to Iran who sheltered Americans at his residence during the 1979 hostage crisis, has died. He was 81. Taylor's wife, Pat, ...
Hollywood golden age ingÃ©nue Joan Leslie dies at 90

The Associated Press
Oct 15, 2015 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Joan Leslie, whose expressive almond eyes and innocent beauty made her one of the most popular film ingÃ©nues of the 1930s and 40s, has died at the ag...

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