Obituaries
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Mount Prospect educator dedicated life to children, helping poorFeb 25, 2015 12:00 am - Mary Van Wazer left St. Zachary Catholic School in Des Plaines more than 20 years ago to become principal of St. Benedict School in Chicago, but her former students stil...
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Jockey Jerry Lambert, 3-time Hollywood Gold Cup winner, diesFeb 24, 2015 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jerry Lambert, a leading jockey on the Southern California circuit in the 1960s and '70s who rode Native Diver to three consecutive Hollywood Gold Cup...
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Dori Maynard, journalist and diversity champion, dies at 56Feb 24, 2015 10:00 pm - OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Dori J. Maynard, a journalist and champion of diversity in news coverage, died Tuesday at her Oakland home, the journalism education institute she...
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Longtime Coke executive Donald Keough dies at 88Feb 23, 2015 10:00 pm - NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Keough, who helped steer Coca-Cola through the "cola wars" of the 1980s and played a key role in the introduction of New Coke, died Tuesday in Atl...
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Manhattan Project physicist Ralph Nobles dies at 94Feb 23, 2015 10:00 pm - REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) - Ralph Nobles, a nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and later led efforts to save thousands of acres of San Francisco Bay w...
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Former 1st-round NFL draft pick, Vols WR Clyde Duncan diesFeb 22, 2015 10:00 pm - FORT WASHINGTON, Md. (AP) - Clyde Duncan, a former University of Tennessee receiver and first-round NFL draft pick, has died. He was 54 years old. Winona Morrissette-Joh...
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Convict in murder plot that inspired 'Blind Faith' book diesFeb 22, 2015 10:00 pm - NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey insurance salesman convicted of plotting to kill his wife in a crime that inspired the bestselling book "Blind Faith" and a TV movie has...
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'American Horror Story' actor Woolf dies after accidentFeb 22, 2015 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ben Woolf, an actor on "American Horror Story," has died after being injured in a street accident, a spokesman said. He was 34. Woolf died Monday at C...
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Noted documentary filmmaker Bruce Sinofsky dies at 58Feb 21, 2015 10:00 pm - TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Bruce Sinofsky, an Oscar-nominated and Emmy-award winning documentary filmmaker who gained prominence for his works that shined a spotlight on a chi...
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Legendary jazz musician Clark Terry dead at 94Feb 21, 2015 10:00 pm - NEW YORK (AP) - Legendary jazz trumpeter Clark Terry, who mentored Miles Davis and Quincy Jones and played in the orchestras of both Count Basie and Duke Ellington and o...