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Colin Powell: A trailblazing legacy, blotted by Iraq war

By MATTHEW LEE
Oct 19, 2021 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - A child of working-class Jamaican immigrants in the Bronx, Colin Powell rose from neighborhood store clerk to warehouse floor-mopper to the highest ech...
Retired Rep. Bill Zeliff, who probed Waco siege, dies at 85

By MICHAEL CASEY
Oct 19, 2021 7:00 am - Former U.S. Rep. Bill Zeliff, a three-term Republican best known for helping lead the congressional investigation of the government's disastrous siege of the Branch Davi...
Harry Blizzard remembered for his contributions to Elgin college, orchestras

By Rick West
Oct 19, 2021 1:00 am - Harry Blizzard, a founding board member of both Elgin Community College and the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, died over the weekend at age 94. "Everybody in our community kn...
Colin Powell dies, trailblazing general stained by Iraq

By ROBERT BURNS, ERIC TUCKER and EILEEN PUTMAN
Oct 18, 2021 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Colin Powell, the trailblazing soldier and diplomat whose sterling reputation of service to Republican and Democratic presidents was stained by his fau...
Betty Lynn, Thelma Lou on 'The Andy Griffith Show,' has died

The Associated Press
Oct 18, 2021 7:00 am - MOUNT AIRY, N.C. (AP) - Betty Lynn, the film and television actor who was best known for her role as Barney Fife's sweetheart Thelma Lou on 'œThe Andy Griffith Show,'ť h...
Colin Powell, exemplary general stained by Iraq claims, dies

By ROBERT BURNS, ERIC TUCKER and EILEEN PUTMAN Associated Press
Oct 18, 2021 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Colin Powell, the boundary-breaking military leader and diplomat whose sterling reputation of service to Republican and Democratic presidents was stain...
Chiefs Super Rugby star Sean Wainui dies in car accident

By STEVE McMORRAN
Oct 17, 2021 7:00 am - WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Sean Wainui, a rising star of Super Rugby with the Hamilton-based Chiefs, died Monday in an auto accident. He was 25 and the father of two...
Nun imprisoned over peace activism, Megan Rice, dies at 91

The Associated Press
Oct 17, 2021 7:00 am - ROSEMONT, Penn. (AP) - Megan Rice, a nun and Catholic peace activist who spent two years in federal prison while in her 80s after breaking into a government security c...
Ronnie Tutt, drummer for Elvis and other stars, dies at 83

The Associated Press
Oct 17, 2021 7:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Ronnie Tutt, a legendary drummer who spent years playing alongside Elvis Presley and teamed up with other superstars ranging from Johnny Cash to ...
Hubert Germain dies at 101; helped free France from Nazis

The Associated Press
Oct 15, 2021 7:00 am - PARIS (AP) - Hubert Germain, the last of an elite group of decorated French fighters who helped liberate France from Nazi control in World War II, has died. He was 101. ...

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