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Longtime KU broadcaster Max Falkenstien dies at 95

By DAVE SKRETTA
Jul 29, 2019 7:00 am - LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - Max Falkenstien, the affable and silver-tongued "Voice of the Jayhawks" who brought Kansas football and basketball into the homes of fans for six d...
Former Chargers fullback Keith Lincoln dies at age 80

The Associated Press
Jul 29, 2019 7:00 am - PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) - Keith Lincoln, a star on the San Diego Chargers' 1963 AFL championship team, has died. He was 80. Lincoln's death on Saturday was announced by Wash...
Cruz-Diez, Venezuelan pioneer of kinetic art, dies in Paris

By JORGE RUEDA and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA
Jul 28, 2019 7:00 am - CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Carlos Cruz-Diez, a leading Venezuelan artist who won international acclaim for his work with color and the style known as kinetic art, has die...
Palatine man killed in California hit-and-run

Daily Herald report
Jul 28, 2019 1:00 am - A 25-year-old Palatine man was killed last week when struck by a hit-and-run driver as he walked along a road in central California, the Modesto Bee is reporting. Brian ...
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Schrieffer dies in Florida

The Associated Press
Jul 27, 2019 7:00 am - TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - John Robert Schrieffer, a physicist who shared in the 1972 Nobel Prize in physics for developing a pioneering theory of superconductivity, has d...
Russi Taylor, longtime voice of Minnie Mouse, dies at 75

The Associated Press
Jul 27, 2019 7:00 am - GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) - Russi Taylor, an actress who gave voice to Minnie Mouse for more than three decades, has died. Walt Disney Co. chairman Bob Iger announced Taylor...
Cardinal Ortega, former archbishop of Havana, dies at 82

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and PETER ORSI
Jul 26, 2019 7:00 am - HAVANA (AP) - Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, a sugar worker's son who oversaw the first papal visit to Cuba, helped lower barriers to believers in the communist ...
Former longtime Hanover Park Park District director dies at 74

By Eric Peterson
Jul 25, 2019 1:00 am - Larry Wheeler, who served as director of the Hanover Park Park District for 20 years and remained a financial adviser to it for several more, died Monday at his house in...
Last Polish inmate from 1940 transport to Auschwitz dies

The Associated Press
Jul 24, 2019 7:00 am - WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Officials at the Auschwitz Memorial say Kazimierz Albin, the last surviving inmate from the initial transport of Poles to the German Nazi camp, has...
Actor Rutger Hauer, of 'Blade Runner' fame, has died at 75

By MARK KENNEDY
Jul 24, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Dutch film actor Rutger Hauer, who specialized in menacing roles, including a memorable turn as a murderous android in "Blade Runner" opposite Harrison F...

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