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Czech harpsichordist Zuzana Ruzickova dies at age 90

The Associated Press
Sep 27, 2017 7:00 am - PRAGUE (AP) - Zuzana Ruzickova, a Czech musician who survived Nazi death camps and communist persecution before winning world acclaim as a harpsichordist, has died at ag...
Lady Lucan, widow of killer Lord Lucan, dies at 80

The Associated Press
Sep 27, 2017 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Lady Lucan, a British aristocrat who survived a vicious 1974 attack by her husband that sparked a decades-long mystery, has died. She was 80. London's Metr...
Swiss-American mountaineer Norman Dyhrenfurth dead at 99

The Associated Press
Sep 27, 2017 7:00 am - VIENNA (AP) - Norman Dyhrenfurth, a Swiss-American mountaineer and filmmaker who organized the successful American expedition in 1963 to Mount Everest that put six climb...
Actor Tony Booth, father-in-law of Tony Blair, dies at 85

The Associated Press
Sep 26, 2017 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Tony Booth, a British actor and the father-in-law of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, has died. He was 85. Booth's family says he died late Monday. He had...
Liz Dawn, former 'Coronation Street' actress, dies aged 77

The Associated Press
Sep 26, 2017 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Liz Dawn, the actress who played tart-tongued Vera Duckworth in the British soap opera "Coronation Street" for more than 30 years, has died, her family sai...
Longtime Batavia school trustee Rosalie Jones Link dies

By Susan Sarkauskas
Sep 26, 2017 1:00 am - Rosalie Jones Link was passionate about educating the children of Batavia. So she spent many an evening sitting at the Batavia school board table, figuring out how to pr...
Jean Bowen a guiding light for students, staff in U-46

By Madhu Krishnamurthy
Sep 26, 2017 1:00 am - "We are in the business of learning" - that served as the guiding principle of Jean Bowen's life. A tireless proponent for Elgin Area School District U-46, Bowen, 75, of...
Barbara Blaine, founder of abuse victims group SNAP, dies

The Associated Press
Sep 25, 2017 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Barbara Blaine, the founder and former president of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, has died. She was 61. The organization known as SNAP...
Nurse convicted of killing 6 people at Indiana hospital dies

By TOM DAVIES
Sep 25, 2017 7:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Orville Lynn Majors, who was convicted of killing six people while he was a nurse at a rural Indiana hospital, has died while serving a 360-year sent...
US-based actor Jan Triska dies after fall from Prague bridge

The Associated Press
Sep 25, 2017 7:00 am - PRAGUE (AP) - Jan Triska, an actor who moved to the U.S. after being banned by the Czechoslovak Communist regime, has died, more than a day after he fell from Prague's i...

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