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Earnie Shavers, one of boxing's hardest punchers, dies at 78

By The Associated Press
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...
Barbara Ehrenreich, 'myth busting' writer and activist, dies

By The Associated Press
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...
German militants' lawyer and Greens gadfly dies at 83

The Associated Press
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...
Lee Thomas, architect of the 1993 Phillies, dies at 86

The Associated Press
Aug 31, 2022 7:00 am - PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Lee Thomas, an All-Star player who eventually became the architect of the 1993 NL champion Philadelphia Phillies, has died. He was 86. Thomas died We...
Mikhail Gorbachev, who steered Soviet breakup, dead at 91

By JIM HEINTZ
Aug 31, 2022 7:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the stat...
Gorbachev, who redirected course of 20th century, dies at 91

By JIM HEINTZ
Aug 30, 2022 7:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - Before Mikhail Gorbachev came along, the Soviet Union seemed an immovable superpower in perpetual antagonism to the United States. With a breathtaking seri...
Japanese business pioneer, philanthropist Inamori dies at 90

By YURI KAGEYAMA
Aug 30, 2022 7:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - Kazuo Inamori, founder of Japanese ceramics and electronics maker Kyocera who also became a philanthropist singing the virtues of fairness and hard work, ha...
'Triangle of Sadness' actor, model Charlbi Dean dies at 32

Associated Press
Aug 30, 2022 1:00 am - NEW YORK - Charlbi Dean, the South African actor and model who had a breakout role in "Triangle of Sadness," which won this year's top prize at the Cannes Film Festival,...
Mikhail Gorbachev, who steered breakup of Soviet Union, dead at 91

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press
Aug 30, 2022 1:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the stat...
Kane County judge remembered for kindness from bench, devotion to children

By Susan Sarkauskas
Aug 29, 2022 1:00 am - Kane County Associate Judge William Parkhurst is being remembered fondly for the fairness and kindness he showed to the people who appeared before him in court, and for ...

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