Obituaries
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Cummings, powerful congressman leading Trump probe, has died
Oct 17, 2019 7:00 am - BALTIMORE (AP) - Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper's son who rose to become a civil rights champion and the chairman of one of the U.S. House committees l...
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'Heartbroken': GOP mourns Cummings as friend, statesman
Oct 17, 2019 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - "Heartbroken." That's how North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows, one of the most conservative members of the House, reacted Thursday to the death of Marylan...
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Ed Beck, part of Kentucky's 1958 NCAA title team, dies at 83
Oct 17, 2019 7:00 am - LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Ed Beck, a fierce rebounder for Kentucky's 1958 NCAA championship team nicknamed the "Fiddlin' Five," has died. He was 83. The school said Beck die...
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Alicia Alonso, the grande dame of Cuban ballet, has died
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...
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Country radio DJ Bob Kingsley, 80, dies at home in Texas
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...
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Hollywood 'fixer' Scotty Bowers dies; he wrote tell-all book
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...
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Richard Jackson, publisher of Judy Blume, dead at 84
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...
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Romer Osuna, Bolivian soccer official banned for life, dies
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...
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Harold Bloom, author of 'Anxiety of Influence,' dies at 89
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 ...
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Paul Karas had connections to many Fox Valley restaurantsOct 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...