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Tony-winner Sammy Williams from 'A Chorus Line' dies at 69

By MARK KENNEDY
Mar 21, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Sammy Williams, who won a Tony Award in the original Broadway production of "A Chorus Line," has died. He was 69. Family spokeswoman and friend Brandee B...
Wheeling auto dealer remembered as ardent adoption supporter

By Chacour Koop
Mar 21, 2018 1:00 am - Cruise down Dundee Road in Wheeling and you'd see Bill Stasek's Chevrolet auto dealership. It's hard to miss its rows of shiny, new Corvettes, Camaros and Silverados. ...
Peter Peterson, billionaire and philanthropist, dies at 91

By KEN SWEET
Mar 20, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Peter G. Peterson, a billionaire and business executive who became one of the most prominent voices to argue for entitlement reform and reducing the U.S....
Country music journalist Hazel Smith dies at age 83

The Associated Press
Mar 19, 2018 7:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Country music journalist, publicist and songwriter Hazel Smith has died. She was 83. Her granddaughter Tara Bruchas said she died at a Nashville ...
Scottish cardinal who recused himself from conclave dies

By DANICA KIRKA and NICOLE WINFIELD
Mar 19, 2018 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the first cardinal in history to recuse himself from a papal election over a personal scandal, has died, his archdiocese in Scotlan...
Award-winning author Kate Wilhelm dies at 89

The Associated Press
Mar 16, 2018 7:00 am - EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - Award-winning science fiction writer Kate Wilhelm has died at 89. Her son Richard Wilhelm said in a Facebook post that his mother died March 8 in Eug...
5-time NCAA champion baseball coach Augie Garrido dies at 79

By JIM VERTUNO
Mar 15, 2018 7:00 am - AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Wherever Augie Garrido went in his six decades in college baseball, wins and championships always followed. His ability to motivate and innovate pro...
David S. Wyman, Holocaust scholar, dead at 89

By HILLEL ITALIE
Mar 15, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - David S. Wyman, a leading scholar of the U.S. response to the Holocaust whose "The Abandonment of the Jews" was a provocative, best-selling critique of e...
Brilliant, popular physicist Stephen Hawking dies at 76

By RAPHAEL SATTER
Mar 14, 2018 7:00 am - PARIS (AP) - In his final years, the only thing connecting the brilliant physicist to the outside world was a couple of inches of frayed nerve in his cheek. As slowly as...
Stephen Hawking, best-known physicist of his time, has died

By ROBERT BARR
Mar 14, 2018 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Stephen Hawking, whose brilliant mind ranged across time and space though his body was paralyzed by disease, died Wednesday. He was 76. Hawking died at his...

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