Obituaries
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Stranglers keyboardist Dave Greenfield dies with COVID-19
May 04, 2020 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Dave Greenfield, the keyboard player with British punk band The Stranglers and who penned the music to their biggest hit, Golden Brown, has died after test...
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Longtime Crystal Lake Mayor Aaron Shepley dies overnightMay 04, 2020 1:00 am - Crystal Lake's longest serving mayor, Aaron Shepley, has died. Shepley, 56, was pronounced dead at his Crystal Lake home Monday morning, McHenry County Interim Coroner J...
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Don Shula, winningest coach in pro football history, dies at 90
May 04, 2020 1:00 am - MIAMI - Don Shula, who won the most games of any NFL coach and led the Miami Dolphins to the only perfect season in league history, died Monday at his home, the team sai...
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Gil Schwartz, aka humorist Stanley Bing, has died at 68
May 03, 2020 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gil Schwartz, the longtime CBS communications executive who wrote humorous novels and columns under the pen name Stanley Bing, has died. He was 68. C...
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Algerian singer Idir, a Berber icon, has died in Paris
May 03, 2020 7:00 am - PARIS (AP) - Idir, an Algerian singer who gave voice to the Berber and Kabyle cultures, has died in Paris. He was 70. Saturday's death of the singer, whose real name was...
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Bobby Lee Verdugo, leader of 1968 LA school walkout, dies
May 02, 2020 7:00 am - Bobby Lee Verdugo, one of the leaders of the 1968 East Los Angeles high school walkout to protest discrimination and dropout rates among Mexican American students, which...
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Busse carried on family tradition of Mount Prospect involvementMay 02, 2020 1:00 am - Community service was a way of life for George R. Busse. "He followed a family tradition of being very involved in his community and very devoted to his neighbors," said...
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Family was light of Mount Prospect salesman's lifeMay 02, 2020 1:00 am - Robert Thomas Rogers loved to talk about his 11 children. "I think it was certainly the light of his life," son Steve Rogers said. The Mount Prospect resident, who died ...
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Drummer Tony Allen, driver of Afrobeat sound, dies at 79
May 01, 2020 7:00 am - JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Pioneering drummer Tony Allen, the driver of the Afrobeat sound, has died in Paris at age 79. Allen died Thursday night at the Pompidou Hospital of a...
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Former Canadian bobsled champion Douglas Anakin dies at 89
Apr 30, 2020 7:00 am - INVERMERE, British Columbia (AP) - Douglas Anakin, a member of the four-man Canadian bobsled team that won the Olympic gold medal in 1964, has died. He was 89. Anakin's ...