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Young Ugandan who featured in a Disney chess film dies at 15

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA
Feb 16, 2020 6:00 am - KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - A Ugandan student who played a memorable role in a 2016 Disney film about a local chess prodigy has died at the age of 15. Nikita Pearl Waligwa d...
Writer AE Hotchner, friend to Hemingway, Newman, dead at 102

By HILLEL ITALIE
Feb 16, 2020 6:00 am - A.E. Hotchner, a well-traveled author, playwright and gadabout whose street smarts and famous pals led to a loving, but litigated memoir of Ernest Hemingway, business ad...
Oilman, former Texas governor candidate Williams dies at 88

By JAMIE STENGLE
Feb 15, 2020 6:00 am - DALLAS (AP) - Clayton Williams, a colorful Texas oilman and philanthropist whose 1990 run for governor was derailed after joking about rape and acknowledging he went a y...
Lynn Cohen, who played Magda in 'Sex and the City,' dies

The Associated Press
Feb 15, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Lynn Cohen, an actress best known for playing the plainspoken housekeeper and nanny Magda in 'œSex and the City,'ť has died. She was 86. Cohen died Frida...
Former Irish national team player Jimmy Conway dies at 73

By ANNE M. PETERSON
Feb 14, 2020 6:00 am - PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Jimmy Conway, a former Irish international whose club career included stops with Fulham and the Portland Timbers, has died from complications of de...
Jimmy Hoffa associate who was suspect in disappearance dies

Associated Press
Feb 14, 2020 6:00 am - BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - Charles 'œChuckie'ť O'Brien, a longtime associate of Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa who became a leading suspect in the labor leader's disappearance ...
Soldier who was Palatine native to be remembered at service in village Sunday

Daily Herald report
Feb 14, 2020 12:00 am - A public service to remember Army Staff Sgt. Matt Morgan will be 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at Smith-Corcoran Funeral Home, 185 E. Northwest Hwy. in Palatine. Morgan, 30, ...
RK Pachauri, who led Nobel-winning climate panel, dies at 79

The Associated Press
Feb 13, 2020 6:00 am - NEW DELHI (AP) - Indian environmentalist Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, under whose leadership a U.N. climate change panel shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, has died after re...
Jimmy Peau, who boxed as Jimmy Thunder, dead at 54

The Associated Press
Feb 13, 2020 6:00 am - WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Samoa-born Jimmy Peau, who as Jimmy Thunder recorded one of the fastest knockouts in professional boxing with a first-punch victory over A...
Frederick Koch, low-profile Koch brother, dies at 86

The Associated Press
Feb 13, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Frederick Koch, who kept a low profile as an arts benefactor rather than joining the family oil business that became Koch Industries, has died, according...

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