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Sonia Orbuch, who fought Nazis as a girl, dies in California

The Associated Press
Oct 07, 2018 7:00 am - CORTE MADERA, Calif. (AP) - Sonia Orbuch, who survived the Holocaust as a teenager in eastern Europe by joining a resistance group that was sabotaging the Nazis, has die...
Spanish opera singer Montserrat Caballe dies at 85

By CIARAN GILES and JOSEPH WILSON
Oct 06, 2018 7:00 am - BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Montserrat Caballe, a Spanish opera singer renowned for her bel canto technique and her interpretations of the roles of Rossini, Bellini and Doni...
Ray Galton, writer of classic British sitcoms, dies at 88

The Associated Press
Oct 06, 2018 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Screenwriter Ray Galton, who co-wrote the landmark British comedy series "Hancock's Half Hour" and "Steptoe and Son," has died at 88. Galton's family said ...
The Latest: Queen guitarist calls Caballe 'inspiration'

The Associated Press
Oct 06, 2018 7:00 am - BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - The Latest on the death of opera singer Montserrat Caballe (all times local): 12:25 p.m. The guitarist for rock group Queen has expressed his con...
Dave Anderson, sports columnist, Pulitzer winner, dies at 89

By RONALD BLUM
Oct 05, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Dave Anderson, a genteel sports writer whose elegant, descriptive prose won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary as a columnist for The New York Times, died T...
'The Hate U Give' screenwriter Audrey Wells dies at 58

By LINDSEY BAHR
Oct 05, 2018 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Audrey Wells, who wrote the screenplay for the brand new feature film "The Hate U Give," died the day before the film was released after a five-year b...
Will Vinton, animator behind the California Raisins, dies

The Associated Press
Oct 05, 2018 7:00 am - PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Will Vinton, an Oscar-winning animator who invented Claymation, a style of stop-motion animation, and brought the California Raisins to TV, has die...
Gym temporarily closes after boy dies in accident

By Katlyn Smith
Oct 05, 2018 1:00 am - A children's gym in Wheaton has closed temporarily in the wake of an accident involving a 7-year-old Glen Ellyn boy who died Tuesday. Brady Daniel Doherty, a second-grad...
Busboy who comforted Robert Kennedy after he was shot dies

By JOHN ROGERS and RUSSELL CONTRERAS
Oct 04, 2018 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - When Robert F. Kennedy decided to duck through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after declaring victory in the 1968 Democratic presi...
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman dies at 96

By KEITH RIDLER
Oct 03, 2018 7:00 am - BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Leon Lederman, an experimental physicist who won a Nobel Prize in physics for his work on subatomic particles and coined the phrase "God particle," d...

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