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Jessye Norman, international opera star, dead at 74

By MESFIN FEKADU
Sep 30, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Jessye Norman, the renowned international opera star whose passionate soprano voice won her four Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts and the Kenned...
Legendary Mexican crooner JosÃ© JosÃ© dies from cancer

By BERENICE BAUTISTA and AMY GUTHRIE
Sep 29, 2019 7:00 am - MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican crooner JosÃ© JosÃ©, the elegant dresser who moved audiences to tears with melancholic love ballads and was known as the "Prince of Song," has...
Joe Wilson, skeptic on Iraq War intelligence, dies at age 69

By MORGAN LEE and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN
Sep 28, 2019 7:00 am - SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Joseph Wilson, the former ambassador who set off a political firestorm by disputing U.S. intelligence used to justify the 2003 Iraq invasion, died ...
Russian theater and film director Mark Zakharov dies at 85

The Associated Press
Sep 28, 2019 7:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - Mark Zakharov, a renowned Russian theater and film director whose productions were widely acclaimed and loved by several generations of Russians, has died....
Former Alabama congressman Jack Edwards dies at 91

The Associated Press
Sep 27, 2019 7:00 am - MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Former U.S. Rep. Jack Edwards of Alabama, who served 10 terms in Congress and was in the first wave of Deep South Republicans, died Friday. He wa...
The Latest: Macron praises Chirac as 'statesman we loved'

The Associated Press
Sep 26, 2019 7:00 am - PARIS (AP) - The Latest on former French President Jacques Chirac's death (all times local): 11:30 p.m. Parisians and visitors are writing messages in condolence books l...
Ex-French President Chirac, who stood up to US, dies at 86

By ELAINE GANLEY
Sep 26, 2019 7:00 am - PARIS (AP) - Jacques Chirac, a two-term French president who was the first leader to acknowledge France's role in the Holocaust and who defiantly opposed the U.S. invasi...
Buffalo Grove's 'voice of the residents' dies at 73

By Eileen O. Daday
Sep 25, 2019 1:00 am - The longest-serving trustee in the history of Buffalo Grove, who lent his financial expertise during a time of exponential growth for the village, has died. John Marient...
A Alvarez, poetry critic and best-selling author, dead at 90

By HILLEL ITALIE
Sep 24, 2019 7:00 am - Alfred Alvarez, a critic and author with a non-literary streak who helped shape the modern poetry canon in his native England, explored everything from oil digging to po...
Robert Hunter, Grateful Dead's poetic lyricist, dead at 78

By JOHN ROGERS
Sep 24, 2019 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Robert Hunter, the man behind the poetic and mystical words for many of the Grateful Dead's finest songs, has died at age 78. Hunter died Monday at hi...

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