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'Mob Wives' reality star Angela 'Big Ang' Raiola has died

Associated Press
Feb 18, 2016 6:00 am - NEW YORK - Angela "Big Ang" Raiola, the raspy-voiced bar owner who gained fame on the reality TV series "Mob Wives," died early Thursday, nearly a year after being diag...
Maverick Polish filmmaker Andrzej Zulawski dies at 75

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
Feb 17, 2016 6:00 am - WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Filmmaker and writer Andrzej Zulawski, who was named best director last year at a film festival in Switzerland for his latest film "Cosmos," died W...
Prolific Egyptian political writer and insider, Heikal, dies

By HAMZA HENDAWI
Feb 17, 2016 6:00 am - CAIRO (AP) - Mohamed Heikal, a close confidant of Egypt's nationalist leader Gamal Abdel Nasser since the 1950s and later author of insider accounts of his country's war...
NY priest who gained fame as half of TV 'God Squad' dies

The Associated Press
Feb 17, 2016 6:00 am - ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. (AP) - A Roman Catholic priest who gained fame as half of an interfaith "God Squad" duo on television and in a syndicated column has died. Monsign...
Owner of Shanders Bakery in Meadowdale, known for Old World recipes, dies

By Eileen O. Daday
Feb 17, 2016 12:00 am - A former bakery shop owner in Carpentersville, whose Old World recipes for breads and pastries drew business from throughout the Fox Valley as well as area restaurants a...
Vernon Hills police officer dies of cancer

By Russell Lissau
Feb 17, 2016 12:00 am - A decorated Vernon Hills police officer succumbed to esophageal cancer Wednesday. Officer Andy Rheintgen had been with the department for 17 years, first as a commun...
Singer, actress Denise Matthews, known as Vanity, dies

By JESSE J. HOLLAND
Feb 16, 2016 6:00 am - Vanity, a Prince protege who renounced her sexy stage persona to become a Christian minister, has died. She was 57. The singer and actress, born Denise Matthews, died Mo...
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, first UN chief from Africa, dies

By MAGGIE MICHAEL
Feb 16, 2016 6:00 am - CAIRO (AP) - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, a veteran Egyptian diplomat who helped negotiate his country's landmark peace deal with Israel but then clashed with the United State...
Longtime baker, partner remembered as part of Jarosch's success

By Eileen O. Daday
Feb 16, 2016 12:00 am - Joseph Stephan dies at age 88
Correction: Croatia-Obit-Denzinger story

The Associated Press
Feb 15, 2016 6:00 am - ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) - In some versions of a story Feb. 14 about the death of suspected former Nazi prison guard Jakob Denzinger, The Associated Press reported erroneous...

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