Obituaries
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Rio Grande Valley coach Lew Hill dies day after final game
Feb 08, 2021 6:00 am - EDINBURG, Texas (AP) - Texas Rio Grande Valley coach Lew Hill died Sunday, a day after coaching what was his final game, the university said. Hill, who was 55, was in hi...
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Joe Allen, whose bistro was a Broadway draw, dies at 87
Feb 08, 2021 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Joe Allen, whose Times Square-adjacent bistro which bears his name has been a decadeslong draw for theater folk and where a post-show drink is part of th...
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Texas GOP Rep. Wright, who battled health issues, dies at 67
Feb 08, 2021 6:00 am - AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Republican Rep. Ron Wright of Texas, who had lung cancer and was hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19 last month, has died, his office s...
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Karen Lewis, former head of Chicago Teachers Union, dies
Feb 08, 2021 12:00 am - Karen Lewis, the charismatic former head of the Chicago Teachers Union, has died, her spokeswoman confirmed, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting. She was 67. Lewis had co...
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George Shultz wasn't 'afraid to struggle against the odds'
Feb 07, 2021 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Time was running out when Secretary of State George P. Shultz returned home in April 1988 after flying 16,000 miles in a failed mission to persuade Ara...
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Former heavyweight champion Leon Spinks dies at 67
Feb 07, 2021 6:00 am - LAS VEGAS (AP) - Leon Spinks, who won Olympic gold and then shocked the boxing world by beating Muhammad Ali to win the heavyweight title in only his eighth pro fight, h...
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Longtime Reagan Secretary of State George Shultz dies at 100
Feb 07, 2021 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz, a titan of American academia, business and diplomacy who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve Cold War...
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Christopher Plummer got a third act worth singing about
Feb 06, 2021 6:00 am - It's one of the great Hollywood ironies that Christopher Plummer didn't like the film that made him a legend. He was an actor's actor and had cut his teeth doing Shakesp...
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Former Indiana first lady Susan Bayh dies at 61 from cancer
Feb 06, 2021 6:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Former Indiana first lady Susan Bayh, an attorney and wife of former Gov. Evan Bayh, has died at age 61 'œafter a long and courageous fight" against ...
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Andrews, Evans, Mirren pay tribute to Christopher Plummer
Feb 05, 2021 6:00 am - Reactions to the death at 91 of Oscar winner and "Sound of Music" star Christopher Plummer: "The world has lost a consummate actor today and I have lost a cherished fr...