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Cardinal Law, disgraced figure in church scandal, dead at 86

By RACHEL ZOLL and NICOLE WINFIELD
Dec 20, 2017 6:00 am - VATICAN CITY (AP) - Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose failure to stop child molesters in the priesthood triggered the worst crisis in...
Kansas City jazz singer Kevin Mahogany dies

The Associated Press
Dec 19, 2017 6:00 am - KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Jazz singer Kevin Mahogany, renowned for his broad baritone voice, has died at age 59. Mahogany's sister, Carmen Julious, told KCUR-FM Radio that...
Sword-swallower who once ran museum called Freakatorium dies

The Associated Press
Dec 19, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Johnny Fox, a sword-swallowing magician who presented his quirky art form to enthusiastic audiences around the world, has died. The 64-year-old had been ...
Longtime local official, widow of heavyweight champion, dies

The Associated Press
Dec 19, 2017 6:00 am - CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - A longtime county official in New Jersey who was the widow of former world heavyweight boxing champion Jersey Joe Walcott has died. Riletta Cream was...
Former Lincolnshire-Riverwoods firefighter dies of cancer

By Russell Lissau
Dec 18, 2017 12:00 am - Former Lincolnshire-Riverwoods Fire Protection District Lt. James F. Carney died Sunday after a three-year cancer fight. Memorial bunting was hung outside the fire distr...
Barrington leader remembers former CN boss

Daily Herald report
Dec 18, 2017 12:00 am - Barrington Village President Karen Darch remembered a railroad executive as "respectful and cordial" after his death last weekend. Hunter Harrison, the president CEO of...
Jazz and pop singer Keely Smith dies of heart failure at 89

The Associated Press
Dec 17, 2017 6:00 am - PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) - Keely Smith, a pop and jazz singer known for her solo recordings of jazz standards as well as her musical partnership with Louis Prima, has d...
Friends, family mourn loss of Palatine Township farming mainstay

By Mick Zawislak
Dec 16, 2017 12:00 am - Many farmers moved as suburbia closed in but Harold Bergman stayed, leading a simple life on the land where he was born June 1, 1916. He grew hay well into his 90s at th...
Medinah couple married 71 years die within minutes of each other

By Barbara Vitello
Dec 16, 2017 12:00 am - Made for each other. No phrase better describes longtime Medinah residents Bob and Ruth Kretschmer, who died within minutes of each other Friday, five days after they c...
Vincent Nguini, guitarist for Paul Simon, dead at 65

The Associated Press
Dec 15, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Vincent Nguini, a guitarist from Cameroon who worked with Paul Simon since the late 1980s, died last week in Brazil. He was 65. Simon's publicist, Elizab...

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