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Feder: WGN legend Merri Dee dies at 85

By Robert Feder
Mar 17, 2022 1:00 am - Merri Dee is being remembered as an inspirational and groundbreaking broadcaster whose name was synonymous with "Chicago's Very Own" WGN-Channel 9 for generations, Rober...
Physicist Eugene Parker, namesake of NASA probe, dies at 94

By KATHLEEN FOODY
Mar 16, 2022 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Eugene Parker, a physicist who theorized the existence of solar wind and became the first person to witness the launch of a spacecraft bearing his name, h...
Broadcasting legend Merri Dee dies at 85

Chicago Sun-Times
Mar 16, 2022 1:00 am - Merri Dee, a fixture on Chicago TV screens for decades as a reporter and anchor for WGN-TV, has died at 85, the news station reported Wednesday. A trailblazing broadcas...
Scott Hall, bad guy leader of wrestling's NWO, dies at 63

By The Associated Press
Mar 15, 2022 7:00 am - Scott Hall, professional wrestling's 'œBad Guy'ť who revolutionized the industry as a founding member of the New World Order faction, has died. He was 63. WWE announced ...
Auschwitz survivor Leon Schwarzbaum dies at 101 in Germany

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
Mar 14, 2022 7:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - Leon Schwarzbaum, a survivor of the Nazis' death camp at Auschwitz and a lifelong fighter for justice for the victims of the Holocaust, has died. He was 10...
Acclaimed filmmaker Brent Renaud shot, killed in Ukraine

By PAMELA SAMPSON
Mar 14, 2022 7:00 am - Brent Renaud, an acclaimed filmmaker who traveled to some of the darkest and most dangerous corners of the world for documentaries that transported audiences to little-k...
Zambia declares mourning after the death of former president

By NOEL SICHALWE
Mar 14, 2022 7:00 am - LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) - Zambia has declared seven days of national mourning following the death of the country's fourth president, Rupiah Banda, at the age of 85. Banda, w...
Mike Silverman, Arlington Heights banker and 'legacy builder,' dies at 84

By Eileen O. Daday
Mar 14, 2022 1:00 am - Mike Silverman founded First Northwest Bank, served as president of the Rotary Club of Arlington Heights and the Arlington Heights Chamber of Commerce, and was recognize...
William Hurt, star of 'Broadcast News,' 'Body Heat,' dies

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer
Mar 13, 2022 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - William Hurt, whose laconic charisma and self-assured subtlety as an actor made him one of the 1980s foremost leading men in movies such as "Broadcast News," ...
William Hurt, star of 'Broadcast News,' 'Body Heat,' dies

By JAKE COYLE
Mar 13, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - William Hurt, whose laconic charisma and self-assured subtlety as an actor made him one of the 1980s foremost leading men in movies such as 'œBroadcast N...

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