Obituaries
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Longtime baseball scout Tommy Giordano dies at 93
Feb 15, 2019 6:00 am - Tommy Giordano, a longtime scout who played only 11 games in the major leagues but spent more than seven decades in a variety of baseball roles, died Thursday. He was 93...
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'Small Island' author Andrea Levy dies of cancer aged 62
Feb 15, 2019 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Andrea Levy, a prize-winning novelist who chronicled the hopes and horrors experienced by the post-World War II generation of Jamaican immigrants in Britai...
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Producer of 'Silent Scream' anti-abortion film dies
Feb 14, 2019 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Donald S. Smith, who produced the controversial anti-abortion film "The Silent Scream" and, with help from Ronald Reagan's White House, distributed co...
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Perennial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche dead at 96
Feb 14, 2019 6:00 am - LEESBURG, Va. (AP) - Lyndon LaRouche Jr., the political extremist who ran for president in every election from 1976 to 2004, including a campaign waged from federal pris...
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Eric Harrison, who launched Beckham's career, dies at 81
Feb 14, 2019 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Before becoming the global football superstar star with the popstar wife and adorning billboards worldwide, David Beckham only answered to Eric Harrison. O...
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Waukegan pastor remembered for volunteer work: 'She would always put others first'Feb 14, 2019 12:00 am - A Waukegan pastor whose volunteer work included ministering to Lake County jail inmates and collecting toys for needy children is being remembered for decades of communi...
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Anne Firor Scott, groundbreaking historian, dead at 97
Feb 13, 2019 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Anne Firor Scott, a prize-winning historian and esteemed professor who upended the male-dominated field of Southern scholarship by pioneering the study o...
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Paperback pioneer Betty Ballantine dead at 99
Feb 13, 2019 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Betty Ballantine, half of a groundbreaking husband-and-wife publishing team that helped invent the modern paperback and vastly expand the market for scie...
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Heidi Toffler, assisted on 'Future Shock,' dead at 89
Feb 13, 2019 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Heidi Toffler, who collaborated with husband Alvin Toffler on the best-selling "Future Shock" and other influential books, has died. Toffler died Feb. 6 ...
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Chuck Green, who reported on Oswald's death for AP, dies
Feb 13, 2019 6:00 am - DETROIT (AP) - Chuck Green was a witness to one of the 20th century's biggest stories - and first to report a key piece of it to the world. The former Associated Press c...