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Owner of Arlington Heights barber shop dies in crash

By Erin Hegarty
Sep 19, 2016 1:00 am - The popular owner of a longtime Arlington Heights barber shop was killed Sunday when his motorcycle collided with a car near Rand Road and Winslowe Drive in Palatine. Co...
'Sound of Music' actress Charmian Carr dies at 73

By DERRIK J. LANG
Sep 18, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Charmian Carr, the actress best known for sweetly portraying the eldest von Trapp daughter in Rodgers & Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music," has died. ...
Novelist W.P. Kinsella, author of 'Shoeless Joe,' dies at 81

By JEREMY HAINSWORTH and ROB GILLIES
Sep 17, 2016 7:00 am - VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - Canadian novelist W.P. Kinsella, who blended magical realism and baseball in the book that became the smash hit film "Field of Dreams,...
Famed Turkish actor Tarik Akan dies after cancer battle

The Associated Press
Sep 16, 2016 7:00 am - ISTANBUL (AP) - Tarik Akan, an acclaimed Turkish actor who earned accolades for the controversial 1982 film "Yol," has died after a brief battle with cancer. He was 66. ...
John Buzbee, a US diplomat who served in Mideast, dies at 50

The Associated Press
Sep 16, 2016 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - John Buzbee, a veteran Foreign Service officer who served across the Middle East, including two stints in Iraq after the 2003 U.S. invasion, has died f...
'Virginia Woolf' playwright Edward Albee dies at age 88

By MARK KENNEDY
Sep 16, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee, who challenged theatrical convention in masterworks such as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" ...
Former Italian president and premier Ciampi dies at 95

By COLLEEN BARRY
Sep 16, 2016 7:00 am - MILAN (AP) - Former Italian Prime Minister and President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, a highly respected economist who helped usher in the euro as treasury minister, died on Fr...
Arizona's 1st female governor, Rose Mofford, dies at 94

By PAUL DAVENPORT and TERRY TANG
Sep 16, 2016 7:00 am - PHOENIX (AP) - When Rose Mofford was thrown into the role of Arizona's governor, she was also plunged into a political hailstorm. With her predecessor impeached, a budge...
Tony-winning stage, screen director Jack Hofsiss dies at 65

By MARK KENNEDY
Sep 15, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Stage and screen director Jack Hofsiss, who won a Tony Award in his first outing on Broadway while helming "The Elephant Man" and kept working despite an...
'Cry-Baby' actress Kim McGuire dead at age 60

The Associated Press
Sep 15, 2016 7:00 am - NAPLES, Fla. (AP) - Kim McGuire, who played the character known as "Hatchet-Face" in the John Waters film "Cry-Baby," has died. She was 60. Her husband, Gene Piotrowsky,...

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