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'Exorcist' author William Peter Blatty dead at 89

By HILLEL ITALIE
Jan 13, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Novelist and filmmaker William Peter Blatty, a former Jesuit school valedictorian who conjured a tale of demonic possession and gave millions the fright ...
Canadian 'SNL' and 'SCTV' alum Tony Rosato dies at age 62

The Associated Press
Jan 12, 2017 6:00 am - TORONTO (AP) - Canadian actor Tony Rosato has died at age 62. He was a veteran of comedy shows including "Saturday Night Live" and Canada's homegrown "SCTV." Rosato's fo...
Anderlecht, New York Cosmos player Van der Elst dies at 62

The Associated Press
Jan 12, 2017 6:00 am - BRUSSELS (AP) - Francois "Swat" Van der Elst, who won club titles in Belgium and the United States and made it to the 1980 European Championship final with the Belgian n...
Former England coach Graham Taylor dies at 72

By ROB HARRIS
Jan 12, 2017 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Graham Taylor, the England coach derided for failing to qualify for the 1994 World Cup after flourishing as a club manager working for pop star Elton John,...
'No dark secrets,' says father of Lake in the Hills murder-suicide victims

By Madhu Krishnamurthy
Jan 12, 2017 12:00 am - There were "no dark secrets or anything like that," Luis Garcia said Thursday of the tragic death of his two young children at the hands of his wife. A makeshift memoria...
Journalist Clare Hollingworth, who broke news of WW II, dies

By KELVIN CHAN
Jan 10, 2017 6:00 am - HONG KONG (AP) - As German tanks encircled the Polish town of Katowice, rookie British newspaper reporter Clare Hollingworth picked up the phone and dialed the British E...
Paralyzed New York detective who became voice for peace dies

By COLLEEN LONG
Jan 10, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - New York Police Department Detective Steven McDonald, who was paralyzed by a teenage gunman's bullet in 1986 but publicly forgave the shooter and became ...
Roman Herzog, Germany's president in the 1990s, dies at 82

By GEIR MOULSON
Jan 10, 2017 6:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - Roman Herzog, who as president pressed Germany to embrace economic reform in the 1990s and also stressed the importance of remembering the Nazi Holocaust, ...
Alice Terrill, Daily Herald's longtime 'Just Dogs' columnist, dies at 99

By Eileen O. Daday
Jan 10, 2017 12:00 am - Alice Terrill of Buffalo Grove loved dogs, and people in the community remember her "Just Dogs" weekly column that ran for decades in the Daily Herald. But that's not wh...
Former Wauconda firefighter dies after falling into Arizona canyon

By Russell Lissau
Jan 10, 2017 12:00 am - A former part-time Wauconda firefighter has died in central Arizona. Micah Austin, 43, of San Tan Valley, Arizona, died while riding in the Salt River Canyon. Gila Count...

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