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Hawkins, star at Notre Dame, worked for Dodgers, dies at 80

By BETH HARRIS
Aug 17, 2017 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Tommy Hawkins, the first black basketball player to earn All-America honors at Notre Dame and who played for the Los Angeles Lakers during a 10-year N...
Neuroscientist who studied Einstein's brain dies at 90

The Associated Press
Aug 17, 2017 7:00 am - OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Marian Cleeves Diamond, a neuroscientist who studied Albert Einstein's brain and was one of the first to show that the brain can improve with enri...
Acclaimed modernist architect Gunnar Birkerts dies at 92

The Associated Press
Aug 17, 2017 7:00 am - NEEDHAM, Mass. (AP) - Gunnar Birkerts, an internationally acclaimed modernist architect who designed buildings including the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis, the Cor...
Reds executive Gene Bennett dies at age 89

The Associated Press
Aug 16, 2017 7:00 am - PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (AP) - Gene Bennett, who was with the Cincinnati Reds organization for more than 60 years as a scout and executive, died Wednesday. He was 89. Bennett b...
Neil Chayet, of 'Looking at the Law' radio fame, dies

The Associated Press
Aug 16, 2017 7:00 am - BOSTON (AP) - A lawyer who entertained U.S. radio listeners with brief tales of interesting court cases has died. Neil Chayet was 78. Chayet's family says he died Friday...
Country music matriarch Jo Walker-Meador dies at 93

The Associated Press
Aug 16, 2017 7:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Jo Walker-Meador, a matriarch of country music who led the Country Music Association for nearly three decades, has died. She was 93. She died Tue...
Former Michigan Rep. Vern Ehlers, a physicist, dies at 83

By DAVID EGGERT
Aug 16, 2017 7:00 am - LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Vern Ehlers, a research physicist and moderate Republican who represented a western Michigan congressional district for 17 years and advocated for ...
Citizens Park memorial service to honor Barrington-area conservation leader

By Bob Susnjara
Aug 16, 2017 1:00 am - Thomas Waid Vanderpoel was known in the Barrington area for continuing his father's work with Citizens for Conservation, a nonprofit that's preserved thousands of acres ...
Late Glen Ellyn teacher remembered for generosity, road trips

By Katlyn Smith
Aug 16, 2017 1:00 am - As a kid growing up in Wheaton, Michael Miele and his family would spend summers on the road, traveling to every state in the continental U.S. Those family vacations ins...
Robert Yancy, only child of singer Natalie Cole, dies at 39

By BETH HARRIS
Aug 15, 2017 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Robert Yancy, the only child of singer Natalie Cole and grandson of crooner Nat King Cole, has died. He was 39. Yancy was found dead Monday night at h...

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