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Cardiologist, anti-war activist Bernard Lown dies at 99

The Associated Press
Feb 16, 2021 6:00 am - BOSTON (AP) - Dr. Bernard Lown, a Massachusetts cardiologist who invented the first reliable heart defibrillator and later co-founded an anti-nuclear war group that was ...
Peter G Davis, New York Magazine critic, dies at age 84

The Associated Press
Feb 16, 2021 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Peter G. Davis, the longtime classical music critic of New York Magazine, has died at age 84. Davis died Saturday at Mount Sinai West Hospital in New Yor...
Marriott CEO Sorenson, 62, dies of pancreatic cancer

By DEE-ANN DURBIN
Feb 16, 2021 6:00 am - Marriott Chief Executive Arne Sorenson, who grew the company into the world's largest hotel chain and steered it through a global pandemic that has been catastrophic for...
Wheaton restaurant manager remembered as 'larger-than-life personality'

By Scott C. Morgan
Feb 16, 2021 12:00 am - Restaurant manager from Geneva recalled for his philanthropic efforts
Former NFL receiver Vincent Jackson found dead in hotel room

The Associated Press
Feb 15, 2021 6:00 am - BRANDON, Fla. (AP) - Former NFL wide receiver Vincent Jackson was found dead Monday at a Florida hotel room, days after authorities spoke with him as part of a welfare c...
Flamboyant former Argentine President Carlos Menem dies

ALMUDENA CALATRAVA
Feb 14, 2021 6:00 am - BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Carlos Menem, a former Argentine president who delivered short-lived economic stability and forged close ties with the United States in th...
Pioneering Hollywood casting director Lynn Stalmaster dies

By MICHELLE MONROE
Feb 13, 2021 6:00 am - Lynn Stalmaster, the Oscar-winning casting director whose eye for talent helped launch the careers of John Travolta, Christopher Reeve, Richard Dreyfuss and many other a...
NFL writer Terez Paylor of Yahoo dies unexpectedly at age 37

The Associated Press
Feb 13, 2021 6:00 am - KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Terez Paylor, the popular NFL writer and Pro Football Hall of Fame voter whose career took him from the Kansas City Star to Yahoo Sports, died un...
Elgin mourns Kathleen Kenney-Mau, the heart of Blue Box Cafe

By Steve Zalusky
Feb 13, 2021 12:00 am - Friends, family and Elgin community members are mourning Kathleen Kenney-Mau, who ran the local Blue Box Cafe with her husband. Kenney-Mau, of Elgin, died Thursday at 51...
S. Prestley Blake, co-founder of Friendly's, dead at 106

The Associated Press
Feb 12, 2021 6:00 am - SOMERS, Conn. (AP) - S. Prestley Blake, the co-founder of the Friendly's restaurant chain that he started with his brother Curtis in 1935, has died. He was 106. Blake di...

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