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Actor Seymour Cassel, frequent Cassavetes collaborator, dies

By LINDSEY BAHR
Apr 08, 2019 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Character actors aren't often called larger-than-life, but Seymour Cassel, was just that. The live-wire pillar of independent film known for his frequ...
Korean Air boss dies weeks after board removal over scandals

By KIM TONG-HYUNG
Apr 08, 2019 7:00 am - SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Korean Air's chairman, whose leadership included scandals such as his daughter's infamous incident of "nut rage," has died due to illness, the ...
Longtime Naperville educator remembered for 'long and fruitful' service

By Lauren Rohr
Apr 08, 2019 1:00 am - Ron Gibson had a knack for recognizing potential. He saw it in students, teachers and administrators. He noticed it in classrooms and school buildings. And he used it in...
Co-founder of chart-topping The O'Jays dies of cancer at 78

The Associated Press
Apr 07, 2019 7:00 am - OCEANSIDE, Calif. (AP) - Bill Isles, an original member of the chart-topping R&B group The O'Jays, has died at his Southern California Home. He was 78. Isles died of can...
Maryland House Speaker Busch dies, a Chesapeake Bay defender

By BRIAN WITTE
Apr 07, 2019 7:00 am - ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Michael Busch, a champion of the Chesapeake Bay and progressive causes during his record-tenure as Maryland's Democratic House speaker, battled for...
Ex-Sen Ernest 'Fritz' Hollings of South Carolina dies at 97

By MEG KINNARD
Apr 07, 2019 7:00 am - COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Ernest F. "Fritz" Hollings, the silver-haired Democrat who helped shepherd South Carolina through desegregation as governor and went on to serve si...
Buffalo Grove mourns longtime park commissioner, community volunteer Richard Drazner

By Steve Zalusky
Apr 07, 2019 1:00 am - Buffalo Grove is mourning the loss of Buffalo Grove Park District Commissioner Rick Drazner, a dedicated community volunteer who served as the board's president, as well...
Sydney Brenner, who helped decipher genetic code, dies at 92

The Associated Press
Apr 06, 2019 7:00 am - LA JOLLA, Calif. (AP) - Sydney Brenner, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist who helped decipher the genetic code and whose research on a roundworm sparked a new field of hum...
Friends, colleagues mourn former state Sen. Don Totten

By Eric Peterson
Apr 05, 2019 1:00 am - Friends, longtime colleagues and political protégés are mourning the death of Don Totten - former Illinois state senator, Cook County Republican Party chairman and Schau...
Artist who created first paint-by-numbers pictures dies

By JOHN SEEWER
Apr 04, 2019 7:00 am - TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Dan Robbins, an artist who created the first paint-by-numbers pictures and helped turn the kits into an American sensation during the 1950s, has died...

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