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Gambino crime family's elder Gotti, Peter, dies in prison

By MICHAEL BALSAMO
Feb 25, 2021 6:00 am - Mobster Peter Gotti, the brother of notorious Gambino crime boss John Gotti, has died while serving a federal prison sentence, a person familiar with the matter told The...
Elgin woman remembered as "a personal friend of the city council"

By Rick West
Feb 25, 2021 12:00 am - A longtime Elgin resident and fixture at city council meetings was remembered with a moment of silence Wednesday night at Elgin City Hall. Carol B. Gage, 95, died on Feb...
THE REV. DR. C. THEODORE ROOS OF NORTHBROOK

Feb 24, 2021 12:00 am - The Rev. Dr. C. Theodore Roos, 100, longtime resident of Covenant Living of Northbrook, passed away Feb. 14, 2021, from complications of COVID-19. He was born at home to...
Long-serving Saudi oil minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani dies at 90

By JON GAMBRELL
Feb 23, 2021 6:00 am - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Ahmed Zaki Yamani, a long-serving oil minister in Saudi Arabia who led the kingdom through the 1973 oil crisis that shattered the West...
Beat poet, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti dies at 101

By JANIE HAR and HILLEL ITALIE
Feb 23, 2021 6:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, bookseller and activist who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embodied its curious and re...
Former world champion Gresini dies with COVID-19 at 60

The Associated Press
Feb 23, 2021 6:00 am - BOLOGNA, Italy (AP) - Fausto Gresini, a former motorcycling world champion and team owner, died Tuesday from complications linked to the coronavirus. He was 60. Gresini ...
Roger R. Fross, lawyer involved in historic Chicago patronage case, has died

By Russell Lissau
Feb 23, 2021 12:00 am - Editor's note: This story has been changed to correct the spelling of Roger R. Fross' wife's name. The correct spelling is Madelon. A lawyer involved in a historic ...
Influential mayor of Mozambique city dies of COVID-19

By ANDREW MELDRUM
Feb 22, 2021 6:00 am - JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Daviz Simango, the leader of Mozambique's opposition MDM party and the mayor of the major port city of Beira, died Monday in a hospital in South Afri...
Stan Williams, fearsome pitcher for LA Dodgers, dies at 84

By BETH HARRIS
Feb 21, 2021 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Stan Williams, the fearsome All-Star pitcher who helped the Los Angeles Dodgers win the 1959 World Series, has died. He was 84. Williams died Saturday...
Arturo Di Modica, sculptor of Wall Street bull, dies at 80

By FRANCES D'EMILIO
Feb 20, 2021 6:00 am - ROME (AP) - The artist who sculpted Charging Bull, the bronze statue in New York which became an iconic symbol of Wall Street, has died in his hometown in Sicily at age ...

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