Obituaries
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Former UAW President Owen Bieber dies aged 90
Feb 17, 2020 6:00 am - Owen Bieber, who led the United Auto Workers union from the auto industry's dark days of the early 1980s to the prosperity of the mid-1990s, has died. He was 90. Neither...
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Gregg, former Man United player and Munich hero, dies at 87
Feb 17, 2020 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Harry Gregg, a former Manchester United goalkeeper called the 'œhero of Munich" for rescuing two teammates as well as a baby and her pregnant mother from t...
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'True Grit' novelist Charles Portis dies at age 86
Feb 17, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Novelist Charles Portis, a favorite among critics and writers for such shaggy dog stories as "Norwood" and "Gringos" and a bounty for Hollywood whose dro...
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Young Ugandan who featured in a Disney chess film dies at 15
Feb 16, 2020 6:00 am - KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - A Ugandan student who played a memorable role in a 2016 Disney film about a local chess prodigy has died at the age of 15. Nikita Pearl Waligwa d...
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Writer AE Hotchner, friend to Hemingway, Newman, dead at 102
Feb 16, 2020 6:00 am - A.E. Hotchner, a well-traveled author, playwright and gadabout whose street smarts and famous pals led to a loving, but litigated memoir of Ernest Hemingway, business ad...
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Oilman, former Texas governor candidate Williams dies at 88
Feb 15, 2020 6:00 am - DALLAS (AP) - Clayton Williams, a colorful Texas oilman and philanthropist whose 1990 run for governor was derailed after joking about rape and acknowledging he went a y...
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Lynn Cohen, who played Magda in 'Sex and the City,' dies
Feb 15, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Lynn Cohen, an actress best known for playing the plainspoken housekeeper and nanny Magda in 'œSex and the City,'ť has died. She was 86. Cohen died Frida...
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Former Irish national team player Jimmy Conway dies at 73
Feb 14, 2020 6:00 am - PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Jimmy Conway, a former Irish international whose club career included stops with Fulham and the Portland Timbers, has died from complications of de...
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Jimmy Hoffa associate who was suspect in disappearance dies
Feb 14, 2020 6:00 am - BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - Charles 'œChuckie'ť O'Brien, a longtime associate of Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa who became a leading suspect in the labor leader's disappearance ...
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Soldier who was Palatine native to be remembered at service in village SundayFeb 14, 2020 12:00 am - A public service to remember Army Staff Sgt. Matt Morgan will be 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at Smith-Corcoran Funeral Home, 185 E. Northwest Hwy. in Palatine. Morgan, 30, ...