Obituaries
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Miguel AlgarÃn, a founder of beloved NYC poetry space, dies
Dec 03, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Miguel AlgarÃn, poet, professor and a founder of New York City's beloved Nuyorican Poets Café performance space, has died. He was 79. AlgarÃn died Mon...
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Alison Lurie, prize winning novelist, dead at 94
Dec 03, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Alison Lurie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose satirical and cerebral tales of love and academia included the marital saga 'œThe War Between the...
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Lon Adams, Slim Jim jerky recipe creator, dies of COVID-19
Dec 02, 2020 6:00 am - RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Alonzo 'œLon'ť T. Adams II, the man who created the formula for Slim Jim beef jerky sticks, has died from complications of COVID-19. He was 95. Lyn...
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American Indian Movement co-founder Benton-Banai dies at 89
Dec 02, 2020 6:00 am - MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Eddie Benton-Banai, who helped found the American Indian Movement partly in response to alleged police brutality against Indigenous people, has died. ...
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Ex-French leader Valery Giscard d'Estaing dies at age 94
Dec 02, 2020 6:00 am - PARIS (AP) - Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the president of France from 1974 to 1981 who became a champion of European integration, died on Wednesday. He was 94. Giscard d'E...
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Rafer Johnson, 1960 Olympic decathlon champion, dies at 86
Dec 02, 2020 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy's assassin in 1968, died Wednesday. He was 86. He d...
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Wheaton man who died from COVID-19 remembered as loving father who could fix anythingDec 02, 2020 12:00 am - Allan L. Rhoades is being remembered as a loving father and a handyman who "knew how to fix anything." "There wasn't anything he couldn't build, there wasn't anything he...
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Palatine's Dave Seiffert remembered for community spirit, love of local sportsDec 02, 2020 12:00 am - Dave Seiffert, a former Palatine Township School District 15 board member, is being remembered for his gregarious personality, and his love of local sports and the commu...
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Irina Antonova, head of top Moscow art museum, dies at 98
Dec 01, 2020 6:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - Irina Antonova, a charismatic art historian who presided over one of Russia's top art museums for more than half a century, has died at 98. The Pushkin Sta...
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Acclaimed art scholar, ex-RISD president Roger Mandle dies
Dec 01, 2020 6:00 am - PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Roger Mandle, an internationally renowned art scholar and the former longtime president of the Rhode Island School of Design, has died, RISD said...