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Holocaust survivor killed by car while crossing street

The Associated Press
Dec 13, 2018 6:00 am - PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A 92-year-old man who survived Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust was struck and killed by a car while crossing a street near his home i...
Jazz legend Nancy Wilson dies at 81

By Andrew Dawlton and Hillel Italie Associated Press
Dec 13, 2018 12:00 am - LOS ANGELES — Nancy Wilson, the Grammy-winning “song stylist” and torch singer whose polished pop-jazz vocals made her a platinum artist and top concert performer, has d...
Hungarian director Ferenc Kosa, winner in Cannes, dies at 81

By PABLO GORONDI
Dec 12, 2018 6:00 am - BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Ferenc Kosa, winner of the best director award at the 1967 Cannes film festival, has died at 81, the Hungarian Academy of Arts said Wednesday. K...
Floyd Parton, brother of Dolly Parton, has died

The Associated Press
Dec 11, 2018 6:00 am - SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Floyd Estel Parton, the brother of country singer Dolly Parton, has died. An obituary posted by Atchley Funeral Home in Sevierville, Tennessee,...
'Like a second father': Former St. Charles High School athletic director Bergeson dies at 91

By Lauren Rohr
Dec 11, 2018 12:00 am - A couple of years ago, one of Paul Bergeson's former students approached his son and said, "Your dad believed in me when nobody else believed in me." That moment has bec...
Man who claimed Howard Hughes inheritance dies in Nevada

By KEN RITTER
Dec 10, 2018 6:00 am - LAS VEGAS (AP) - Melvin Dummar died never seeing the $156 million that he argued for decades that eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes unexpectedly bequeathed to him for ...
Former Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland dies at 90

The Associated Press
Dec 09, 2018 6:00 am - ROSEAU, Minn. (AP) - Former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland, a farmer from northern Minnesota who was tasked with selling President Jimmy Carter's unpopular Sovi...
African-American North Carolina voting rights activist dies

The Associated Press
Dec 09, 2018 6:00 am - LOUISBURG, N.C. (AP) - Rosanell Eaton, an African-American voting rights activist who successfully helped challenge voting restrictions supported by North Carolina Repub...
Carpentersville woman was selfless - in life, and in death

By Lauren Rohr
Dec 09, 2018 12:00 am - The kindness, selflessness and unshakable faith that loved ones say Melissa Thielen embodied throughout her life are perhaps most exemplified in her death. The 37-year-o...
Russia's most famous human rights activist dies at 91

By JIM HEINTZ and MATTHEW BODNER
Dec 08, 2018 6:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - Lyudmila Alexeyeva, a human rights pioneer and dissident who challenged the Soviet and Russian regimes for decades, demanding that they free political pris...

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