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Alicia Alonso, the grande dame of Cuban ballet, has died

By PETER ORSI and ANDREA RODRIGUEZ
Oct 17, 2019 7:00 am - HAVANA (AP) - Alicia Alonso, the revered ballerina and choreographer whose nearly 75-year career made her an icon of artistic loyalty to Cuba's socialist system, died Th...
Country radio DJ Bob Kingsley, 80, dies at home in Texas

The Associated Press
Oct 17, 2019 7:00 am - WEATHERFORD, Texas (AP) - Bob Kingsley, a radio announcer who since the 1970s led country music fans counting down the weekly hits, has died in Texas. Rob Simbeck, a fri...
Hollywood 'fixer' Scotty Bowers dies; he wrote tell-all book

By HILLEL ITALIE
Oct 16, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Scotty Bowers, a self-described Hollywood "fixer" whose memoir offered sensational accounts of the sex lives of such celebrities as Katharine Hepburn, Ca...
Richard Jackson, publisher of Judy Blume, dead at 84

The Associated Press
Oct 14, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The publisher of acclaimed children's books by Judy Blume, Paula Fox and others has died. Richard Jackson was 84. Simon & Schuster's Children's Publishin...
Romer Osuna, Bolivian soccer official banned for life, dies

The Associated Press
Oct 14, 2019 7:00 am - LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - Romer Osuna, a senior Bolivian soccer official who was banned for life by FIFA in August over a bribery scheme, has died at the age of 70. Officia...
Harold Bloom, author of 'Anxiety of Influence,' dies at 89

By HILLEL ITALIE
Oct 14, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Harold Bloom, the eminent critic and Yale professor whose seminal "The Anxiety of Influence" and melancholy regard for literature's old masters made him ...
Paul Karas had connections to many Fox Valley restaurants

By Susan Sarkauskas
Oct 14, 2019 1:00 am - If you live in the Fox Valley, there's a good chance you have eaten at a restaurant connected to Paul Karas. Maybe it was a rack of ribs at Alexander's Cafe in Elgin, pr...
First female head of Nobel's literature award body has died

The Associated Press
Oct 12, 2019 7:00 am - HELSINKI (AP) - Sara Danius, the first woman to lead the Swedish institution that awards the Nobel Prize in literature, has died at age 57. Her family told Swedish news ...
Robert Forster, Oscar nominee for 'Jackie Brown,' dies at 78

By LINDSEY BAHR
Oct 12, 2019 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Robert Forster, the handsome and omnipresent character actor who got a career resurgence and Oscar nomination for playing bail bondsman Max Cherry in ...
Alexei Leonov, 1st human to walk in space, dies in Moscow

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA
Oct 11, 2019 7:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - Alexei Leonov, the legendary Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to walk in space 54 years ago - and who nearly didn't make it back into his space ...

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