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Burundi says president Nkurunziza has died of heart attack

By ELOGE WILLY KANEZA and IGNATIUS SSUUNA
Jun 09, 2020 7:00 am - NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza has died of a heart attack at age 56, the government announced Tuesday, ending a 15-year-rule marked by deadl...
NBC 5 anchor Dick Johnson dies at 66

By Robert Feder
Jun 09, 2020 1:00 am - Dick Johnson, a Chicago television news anchor and reporter for 38 years, is being remembered by colleagues for his versatility as a journalist as well as his gracious m...
Lake County Board honors former member Carol Spielman

By Russell Lissau
Jun 09, 2020 1:00 am - Former Lake County Board member Carol Spielman, who died last week at 92, was honored by the current board Tuesday morning. Members from both political parties sang Spie...
Bonnie Pointer, early member of Pointer Sisters, dies at 69

By ANDREW DALTON
Jun 08, 2020 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Bonnie Pointer, who in 1969 convinced three of her church-singing siblings to form the Pointer Sisters, which would become one of the biggest acts of ...
Japan advocate for daughter, others abducted to NKorea dies

By MARI YAMAGUCHI
Jun 06, 2020 7:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - Shigeru Yokota, a Japanese campaigner for the return of his daughter and more than a dozen others who were abducted to North Korea in the 1970s, has died. H...
Kurt Thomas, first US man to win world gym title, dies at 64

By The Associated Press
Jun 06, 2020 7:00 am - Kurt Thomas, the first U.S. male gymnast to win a world championship gold medal, has died. He was 64. Thomas' family said he died Friday. He had a stroke May 24, caused ...
Pete Rademacher, 1956 Olympic boxing champion, dies at 91

TOM WITHERS
Jun 05, 2020 7:00 am - CLEVELAND (AP) - Pete Rademacher, who won a boxing gold medal at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and fought Floyd Patterson for the heavyweight title in his first profession...
Longtime Mount Prospect Library board member left 'permanent mark'

Daily Herald report
Jun 05, 2020 1:00 am - Jackie Hinaber, who served on the Mount Prospect Public Library board for 25 years, has died. She was 78. "Jackie's dedication to the library has left a permanent mark o...
'Splash,' 'Stern' writer Bruce Jay Friedman dead at 90

By HILLEL ITALIE
Jun 03, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Bruce Jay Friedman, an Oscar-nominated screenplay writer and popular playwright and author known for the wry comedy and subtle pathos of such novels as '...
Arrogate, North America's richest racehorse, dies at 7

By BETH HARRIS
Jun 02, 2020 7:00 am - Arrogate, winner of the 2016 Breeders' Cup Classic and the champion 3-year-old male that year on his way to becoming North America's all-time leading money earner, has d...

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