Obituaries
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Barbara Bush brought plainspoken, grandmotherly style to DC
Apr 17, 2018 7:00 am - HOUSTON (AP) - Barbara Bush didn't hesitate to tell people that her trademark pearl necklaces were fake. Americans liked that everything else about the snowy-haired firs...
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Richard Blystone, correspondent at AP, later CNN, dies at 81
Apr 17, 2018 7:00 am - Richard M. Blystone, a longtime Associated Press correspondent who covered the Vietnam War and went on to become one of the first journalists at the CNN network even bef...
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Former first lady Barbara Bush dies at age 92Apr 17, 2018 1:00 am - HOUSTON - Barbara Bush, the snowy-haired first lady whose plainspoken manner and utter lack of pretense made her more popular at times than her husband, President George...
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Veteran Wauconda library board member Terry Stevig diesApr 17, 2018 1:00 am - Veteran Wauconda Area Library board member and retired educator Terry Stevig is being fondly remembered by his family and his peers. Stevig, 71, of Wauconda, died Saturd...
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'Night Court' star Harry Anderson, 65, found dead in home
Apr 16, 2018 7:00 am - Harry Anderson, the actor best known for playing an off-the-wall judge working the night shift of a Manhattan court room in the television comedy series "Night Court," w...
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'Full Metal Jacket' actor R. Lee Ermey dies at 74
Apr 16, 2018 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - R. Lee Ermey, a former Marine who made a career in Hollywood playing hard-nosed military men like Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Stanley Kubrick's "Full Meta...
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Quirky 'Night Court' actor Harry Anderson dies at age 65
Apr 16, 2018 7:00 am - Harry Anderson, the actor best known for playing an off-the-wall judge working the night shift of a Manhattan court room in the television comedy series "Night Court," w...
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Vic Bubas, who coached Duke to 3 Final Fours, dies at 91
Apr 16, 2018 7:00 am - DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - Former Duke coach Vic Bubas, who led the Blue Devils to three Final Fours in 10 seasons, has died. School spokesman Jon Jackson says family members t...
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Vittorio Taviani, of Italian brother directing team, dies
Apr 15, 2018 7:00 am - MILAN (AP) - Italian film director Vittorio Taviani, who with his brother Paolo Taviani created masterpieces of the Italian cinema that claimed top honors at the Cannes ...
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Romanian caricaturist whose art irked Communists dies at 78
Apr 14, 2018 7:00 am - BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Romanian caricaturist Mihai Stanescu, censored for mocking the Communist regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, has died at 78. Daiana Stanescu said her ...