Obituaries
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Key milestones in Queen Elizabeth II's life
Sep 08, 2022 1:00 am - LONDON - Key milestones in the life of Queen Elizabeth II, who died Thursday at Balmoral Castle in Scotland at age 96 after serving more than seven decades on the throne...
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Community mourns owners of Arlington Heights' Uptown Cafe who died days apartSep 07, 2022 1:00 am - For more than three decades, Georgios and Georgene Avgeris dished out tasty and filling fare at the Uptown Cafe in Arlington Heights, serving everything from eggs and ba...
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Former funeral home CEO, past president of Beth Shalom Joel Weinstein dies at 88Sep 07, 2022 1:00 am - Joel Weinstein, 88, of Northbrook, and Boca Raton, Florida, died Aug. 27. Well-known in the Jewish community in the North Shore, Chicago, and in Florida, he had been the...
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New Orleans political patriarch Moon Landrieu has died
Sep 05, 2022 7:00 am - NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) - Former New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu - whose early, lonely stand against segregationists in the Louisiana legislature launched a political care...
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Sterling Lord, uniquely enduring literary agent, dies at 102
Sep 04, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Sterling Lord, the uniquely enduring literary agent who worked for years to find a publisher for Jack Kerouac's 'œOn the Road'ť and over the following de...
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Bed Bath & Beyond chief financial officer Gustavo Arnal dies
Sep 04, 2022 7:00 am - UNION, N.J. (AP) - Gustavo Arnal, the chief financial officer of retail chain Bed Bath & Beyond, has died, the company confirmed on Sunday. The company said Arnal died o...
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Prominent Indian business leader Cyrus Mistry dies at 54
Sep 04, 2022 7:00 am - NEW DELHI (AP) - Cyrus Mistry, an Indian-born Irish businessman and former chairman of Indian conglomerate Tata Sons, died in an accident on Sunday after his car crashed...
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Earnie Shavers, one of boxing's hardest punchers, dies at 78
Sep 02, 2022 7:00 am - Earnie Shavers, whose thunderous punches stopped 68 fighters and earned him heavyweight title fights with Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes, has died. He was 78. Former Brit...
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Barbara Ehrenreich, 'myth busting' writer and activist, dies
Sep 02, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Barbara Ehrenreich, the author, activist and self-described 'œmyth buster'ť who in such notable works as 'œNickel and Dimed'ť and 'œBait and Switch" chal...
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German militants' lawyer and Greens gadfly dies at 83
Aug 31, 2022 7:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - Hans-Christian Stroebele, a German lawyer who defended members of the far-left Red Army Faction and later became the Green party's first directly elected c...