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Kirk Douglas rose from poverty to become a king of Hollywood

By HILLEL ITALIE
Feb 05, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - He was born Issur Danielovitch, a ragman's son. He died Kirk Douglas, a Hollywood king. Douglas, the muscular, tempestuous actor with the dimpled chin, l...
Acting legend Kirk Douglas dies at 103

By Hillel Italie Associated Press
Feb 05, 2020 12:00 am - Kirk Douglas, the intense, muscular actor with the dimpled chin who starred in "Spartacus," "Lust for Life" and dozens of other films, helped fatally weaken the blacklis...
Celebrated book editor Alice Mayhew dies at age 87

The Associated Press
Feb 04, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Alice Mayhew, the celebrated and influential editor of political and historical works whose authors ranged from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to Taylor...
Former Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi is dead at age 95

By TOM ODULA
Feb 04, 2020 6:00 am - NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Daniel arap Moi, a former schoolteacher who became Kenya's longest-serving president and led the East African nation through years of repression an...
A 'zest for people': Wickstrom family remembers public face of Roselle dealership

By Katlyn Smith
Feb 04, 2020 12:00 am - Before the Walter E. Smithe brothers and Peter Francis Geraci earned their place in the Chicago TV commercial pantheon, there was Dan Wickstrom. Wickstrom's charisma mad...
Eminent man of letters George Steiner dead at age 90

By HILLEL ITALIE
Feb 03, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - George Steiner, who became one of the world's leading public intellectuals through his uncommon erudition, multilingual perspective and the provocative l...
Bernie Ebbers, ex-CEO convicted in WorldCom scandal, dies

By MALLIKA SEN
Feb 03, 2020 6:00 am - The former chief of WorldCom, convicted in one of the largest corporate accounting scandals in U.S. history, died just over a month after his early release from prison. ...
Former Georgia basketball star Terry Fair dies at 59

The Associated Press
Feb 01, 2020 6:00 am - ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - Terry Fair, a key player on Georgia only men's Final Four team, has died at the age of 59. The university said Fair died Thursday of natural causes in...
Author Mary Higgins Clark, 'Queen of Suspense,' dead at 92

By HILLEL ITALIE
Feb 01, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Mary Higgins Clark, the tireless and long-reigning "Queen of Suspense" whose tales of women beating the odds made her one of the world's most popular wri...
Andy Gill, guitarist for punk band Gang of Four, has died

By MARK KENNEDY
Feb 01, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Guitarist Andy Gill, who supplied the scratching, seething sound that fueled the highly influential British punk band Gang of Four, died Saturday, accord...

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