Obituaries
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Veteran Wauconda library board member Terry Stevig diesApr 17, 2018 1:00 am - Veteran Wauconda Area Library board member and retired educator Terry Stevig is being fondly remembered by his family and his peers. Stevig, 71, of Wauconda, died Saturd...
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'Night Court' star Harry Anderson, 65, found dead in home
Apr 16, 2018 7:00 am - Harry Anderson, the actor best known for playing an off-the-wall judge working the night shift of a Manhattan court room in the television comedy series "Night Court," w...
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'Full Metal Jacket' actor R. Lee Ermey dies at 74
Apr 16, 2018 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - R. Lee Ermey, a former Marine who made a career in Hollywood playing hard-nosed military men like Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Stanley Kubrick's "Full Meta...
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Quirky 'Night Court' actor Harry Anderson dies at age 65
Apr 16, 2018 7:00 am - Harry Anderson, the actor best known for playing an off-the-wall judge working the night shift of a Manhattan court room in the television comedy series "Night Court," w...
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Vic Bubas, who coached Duke to 3 Final Fours, dies at 91
Apr 16, 2018 7:00 am - DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - Former Duke coach Vic Bubas, who led the Blue Devils to three Final Fours in 10 seasons, has died. School spokesman Jon Jackson says family members t...
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Vittorio Taviani, of Italian brother directing team, dies
Apr 15, 2018 7:00 am - MILAN (AP) - Italian film director Vittorio Taviani, who with his brother Paolo Taviani created masterpieces of the Italian cinema that claimed top honors at the Cannes ...
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Romanian caricaturist whose art irked Communists dies at 78
Apr 14, 2018 7:00 am - BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Romanian caricaturist Mihai Stanescu, censored for mocking the Communist regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, has died at 78. Daiana Stanescu said her ...
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Nevada sheriff: Radio show host Art Bell dead at 72
Apr 14, 2018 7:00 am - PAHRUMP, Nev. (AP) - Art Bell, a radio host best known for a paranormal-themed nightly show syndicated on hundreds of stations in the 1990s, died at his home in southern...
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Milos Forman, Oscar-winning director, dies at 86
Apr 14, 2018 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Czech filmmaker Milos Forman, whose American movies "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Amadeus" won a deluge of Academy Awards, including best dir...
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Holocaust survivor Aaron Elster dies but will live on in hologram exhibitApr 14, 2018 1:00 am - Holocaust survivor Aaron Elster, who died Wednesday at 86, made part of his life's work sharing his story. And now thanks to state-of-the-art technology, his storytellin...