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Pro wrestling star James 'Kamala' Harris dies at 70

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS
Aug 10, 2020 7:00 am - James Harris, a Mississippi-born sharecropper who gained international fame as 'œKamala the Ugandan Giant,'ť a massive professional wrestler who buried opponents with hi...
Hardy, two-sport star, architect of Orange Crush dies at 87

The Associated Press
Aug 09, 2020 7:00 am - HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (AP) - Carroll Hardy, a multi-sport star best known as the only man ever to pinch hit for Ted Williams, died Sunday at age 87. Hardy was also know...
Italy's pioneering comic actor, Franca Valeri, dies at 100

By FRANCES D'EMILIO
Aug 09, 2020 7:00 am - ROME (AP) - Franca Valeri, an elegant, ironic and versatile actor who pioneered female comic roles in Italy's post-war years and helped the nation laugh at its foibles, ...
Life of 40-year trustee Petri celebrated in Elk Grove council chambers

By Kevin Schmit
Aug 08, 2020 1:00 am - There was no better place to celebrate the life of James "Jim" Paul Petri than in the Elk Grove Village council chambers he served in for four decades, though the villag...
Eminent scholar of early U.S., Bernard Bailyn, dies at 97

By HILLEL ITALIE
Aug 07, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Bernard Bailyn, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and educator of lasting influence whose 'œThe Ideological Origins of the American Revolution'ť transfo...
Lorenzo Soria, president of Golden Globes group, dies at 68

The Associated Press
Aug 07, 2020 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Lorenzo Soria, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and former editor of the Italian news weekly L'Espresso, died Friday, the associat...
Ford, Bush presidential adviser Brent Scowcroft dies at 95

By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL
Aug 07, 2020 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Brent Scowcroft, who played a prominent role in American foreign policy as national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush and...
Scowcroft, national security adviser to 2 presidents, dies

By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL
Aug 07, 2020 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - A lifetime before he served two presidents as national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft was just 12 when he decided to become a West Point cadet after...
Educator who helped design, run Palatine High School dies at 93

By Doug T. Graham
Aug 06, 2020 1:00 am - William Thiel, who served as an associate principal for Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 schools for 16 years and was instrumental in helping design the curr...
President of Venezuelan soccer body Berardinelli dies

By JORGE RUEDA
Aug 05, 2020 7:00 am - CARACAS (AP) - Venezuela's soccer federation president JesÃºs Berardinelli has died two weeks after he suddenly lost consciousness and presented other health problems in...

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