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Former UAW President Owen Bieber dies aged 90

By DEE-ANN DURBIN
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...
Gregg, former Man United player and Munich hero, dies at 87

The Associated Press
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...
'True Grit' novelist Charles Portis dies at age 86

By HILLEL ITALIE
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...
Young Ugandan who featured in a Disney chess film dies at 15

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA
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...
Writer AE Hotchner, friend to Hemingway, Newman, dead at 102

By HILLEL ITALIE
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...
Oilman, former Texas governor candidate Williams dies at 88

By JAMIE STENGLE
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...
Lynn Cohen, who played Magda in 'Sex and the City,' dies

The Associated Press
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...
Former Irish national team player Jimmy Conway dies at 73

By ANNE M. PETERSON
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...
Jimmy Hoffa associate who was suspect in disappearance dies

Associated Press
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 ...
Soldier who was Palatine native to be remembered at service in village Sunday

Daily Herald report
Feb 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, ...

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