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Bernie Worrell, masterful P-Funk keyboardist, dead at 72

By HILLEL ITALIE
Jun 24, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Bernie Worrell, the ingenious "Wizard of Woo" whose amazing array of keyboard sounds and textures helped define the Parliament-Funkadelic musical empire ...
Son of iconic basketball coach Adolph Rupp dies at 75

The Associated Press
Jun 24, 2016 7:00 am - LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Adolph "Herky" Rupp Jr., the son of iconic University of Kentucky basketball coach Adolph Rupp, has died. He was 75. Milward funeral home in Lexing...
Bluegrass music patriarch Ralph Stanley dies at 89

By KRISTIN M. HALL
Jun 24, 2016 7:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Ralph Stanley, a patriarch of Appalachian music who with his brother Carter helped expand and popularize the genre that became known as bluegrass...
Longtime Ohio newspaper publisher John F. Wolfe dies at 72

The Associated Press
Jun 24, 2016 7:00 am - COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Longtime Ohio newspaper publisher John F. Wolfe, whose family sold The Columbus Dispatch last year and still owns television and radio stations, ha...
Michael Herr, author of the Vietnam-era 'Dispatches,' dies

By HILLEL ITALIE
Jun 24, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Michael Herr, the author and Oscar-nominated screenplay writer who viscerally documented the ravages of the Vietnam War through his classic nonfiction no...
Bluegrass music patriarch Ralph Stanley dies at 89

By KRISTIN M. HALL
Jun 23, 2016 7:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Ralph Stanley, a patriarch of Appalachian music who with his brother Carter helped expand and popularize the genre that became known as bluegrass...
Japanese who created the popular Othello board game dies

By YURI KAGEYAMA
Jun 23, 2016 7:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - Goro Hasegawa, the Japanese man credited with creating the Othello board game, has died. He was 83. Hasegawa died after a long illness Monday in his home in...
Architect who helped shape look of Arlington Heights dies

By Eileen O. Daday
Jun 23, 2016 1:00 am - A sitting member of the Arlington Heights Design Commission, whose 20-year history with the group and background as a commercial architect helped shape the look of the v...
Former UN General Assembly chief dies amid bribery case

The Associated Press
Jun 22, 2016 7:00 am - DOBBS FERRY, N.Y. (AP) - Former U.N. General Assembly President John Ashe of the twin-island Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda died on Wednesday in the United Stat...
Ellen Soeteber, former editor of the Post-Dispatch, dies

By JIM SALTER
Jun 22, 2016 7:00 am - ST. LOUIS (AP) - Veteran journalist Ellen Soeteber, the former editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, has died after a brief illness. She was 66. Soeteber, who also spen...

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