Obituaries
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Elgin school mourns loss of teacher who 'poured her heart and her soul' into jobMar 04, 2021 12:00 am - Students and staff of a small Elgin school are mourning the loss of a beloved teacher. St. Thomas More Catholic School principal Sonja Keane said they were "devastated ...
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Head of Poland's Shakespeare theater, Jerzy Limon, dies
Mar 03, 2021 6:00 am - WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Jerzy Limon, a Polish academic who was honored by Queen Elizabeth II for creating and directing a Shakespeare theater and festival in Poland, has d...
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Cryptographer, TV reporter, actor, water taxi pilot: What a life West Dundee man livedMar 03, 2021 4:30 am - Tom Korzeniowski of West Dundee is remembered by his son Michael “as a passionate man who loved what he was doing, no matter what it was.” And what it was, was a lot. A...
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Vernon Jordan, activist, former Clinton adviser, dies at 85
Mar 02, 2021 6:00 am - ATLANTA (AP) - Vernon Jordan, who rose from humble beginnings in the segregated South to become a champion of civil rights before reinventing himself as a Washington ins...
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Liverpool great Ian St. John dies at 82
Mar 02, 2021 6:00 am - LIVERPOOL, England (AP) - Ian St. John, a Liverpool great who scored the winning goal to give the club its first FA Cup title and was a key player in the rebuild under B...
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Questions surround death of former NFL player Louis Nix III
Mar 01, 2021 6:00 am - JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Louis Nix III, a standout nose guard at Notre Dame before being drafted into the NFL, has died in Florida after being missing for several days,...
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Vi Ripken, mother of Cal Jr. and kidnap victim, dies at 82
Mar 01, 2021 6:00 am - ABERDEEN, Md. (AP) - Vi Ripken, matriarch of the famed Orioles family that includes Hall of Fame son Cal Ripken Jr. and once the victim of a bizarre kidnapping, has died...
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Zlatko Kranjcar, former Croatia national team coach, dies
Mar 01, 2021 6:00 am - ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) - Zlatko Kranjcar, a former Croatia national team coach who led his team to the 2006 World Cup and also played internationally for Yugoslavia before...
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Former Geneva fire chief, hardware store owner William Rosenfelder dies, at age 86Mar 01, 2021 12:00 am - William "Bill" Rosenfelder Jr. loved two family traditions: running hardware stores and fighting fires. Rosenfelder, a former chief of the Geneva Fire Department, died l...
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'Coronation Street' actor Johnny Briggs dies at age 85
Feb 28, 2021 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Johnny Briggs, a British actor best known for his role as businessman Mike Baldwin in the long-running TV soap opera 'œCoronation Street,'ť has died. He wa...