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Barbara Bush brought plainspoken, grandmotherly style to DC

By MICHAEL GRACZYK
Apr 17, 2018 7:00 am - HOUSTON (AP) - Barbara Bush didn't hesitate to tell people that her trademark pearl necklaces were fake. Americans liked that everything else about the snowy-haired firs...
Richard Blystone, correspondent at AP, later CNN, dies at 81

By CLAUDE ERBSEN
Apr 17, 2018 7:00 am - Richard M. Blystone, a longtime Associated Press correspondent who covered the Vietnam War and went on to become one of the first journalists at the CNN network even bef...
Former first lady Barbara Bush dies at age 92

By Michael Graczky Associated Press
Apr 17, 2018 1:00 am - HOUSTON - Barbara Bush, the snowy-haired first lady whose plainspoken manner and utter lack of pretense made her more popular at times than her husband, President George...
Veteran Wauconda library board member Terry Stevig dies

By Russell Lissau
Apr 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...
'Night Court' star Harry Anderson, 65, found dead in home

By TOM FOREMAN Jr.
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...
'Full Metal Jacket' actor R. Lee Ermey dies at 74

By LINDSEY BAHR
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...
Quirky 'Night Court' actor Harry Anderson dies at age 65

By TOM FOREMAN Jr.
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...
Vic Bubas, who coached Duke to 3 Final Fours, dies at 91

The Associated Press
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...
Vittorio Taviani, of Italian brother directing team, dies

By COLLEEN BARRY
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 ...
Romanian caricaturist whose art irked Communists dies at 78

The Associated Press
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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