Obituaries
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News service executive, journalist Thornton, dies
Feb 15, 2017 6:00 am - WESTPORT, Mass. (AP) - H.C. "Cal" Thornton, a longtime executive with United Press International and later the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service, has died. ...
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Prospect Heights man remembered for passion for writingFeb 15, 2017 12:00 am - Charles "Chuck" Lorenz had a passion for writing, working early in his career as a reporter and later as a communications and public affairs director. Yet, when his son ...
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Former assistant pastor of Streamwood parish diesFeb 14, 2017 12:00 am - The Rev. James Francis Moriarty, a former assistant pastor at St. John the Evangelist Parish in Streamwood during the 1960s, died Feb. 8. Moriarty, 91, was pastor emerit...
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Mother of Notre Dame president dies after Omaha accident
Feb 13, 2017 6:00 am - OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Authorities say the mother of the University of Notre Dame president has died after a parking lot accident in her hometown of Omaha. The university in...
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Former NFL assistant coach Dave Adolph dies at 79
Feb 12, 2017 6:00 am - CLEVELAND (AP) - Dave Adolph, the former Akron guard who directed the Cleveland Browns' defense in the 1980s and was Michigan's senior defensive football analyst, died S...
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Grammy-winning jazz singer Al Jarreau dies at 76
Feb 12, 2017 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES - Grammy-winning jazz singer Al Jarreau, who transcended genres over a 50-year career, died at a Los Angeles hospital Sunday, just days after announcing his ...
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'Band of Brothers' veteran Edward Tipper dies in Colorado
Feb 12, 2017 6:00 am - LAKEWOOD, Colo. (AP) - Edward Tipper, a World War II paratrooper who was portrayed in the HBO series "Band of Brothers," has died. He was 95. He died Feb. 1 in the Denve...
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Detroit Tigers, Red Wings owner Mike Ilitch dies at age 87
Feb 11, 2017 6:00 am - DETROIT (AP) - Billionaire businessman Mike Ilitch, who founded the Little Caesars pizza empire before buying the Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Tigers, won praise for ke...
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Boscov's chairman Albert Boscov dies at 87
Feb 11, 2017 6:00 am - READING, Pa. (AP) - Albert Boscov, chairman of a century-old department store chain, has died. He was 87. Boscov's CEO and vice chairman Jim Boscov said in a statement t...
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Ajax winger Piet Keizer, star of 1970s team, dies at age 73
Feb 11, 2017 6:00 am - THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Ajax winger Piet Keizer, part of the front line that took the Amsterdam team to the summit of world club football in the early 1970s, has d...