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George Kosana, sheriff in 'Night of the Living Dead,' dies

By ERRIN HAINES WHACK
Jan 03, 2017 6:00 am - George Kosana, who played the beefy Sheriff McClelland in the 1968 cult zombie film, "Night of the Living Dead," has died. He was 81. Longtime friend John Russo said Kos...
Iva Drapalova, former AP Prague correspondent, dies at 91

By KAREL JANICEK
Jan 03, 2017 6:00 am - PRAGUE (AP) - Iva Drapalova, a former Associated Press correspondent in Prague who covered Czechoslovakia with courage for two decades following the 1968 Soviet-led inva...
1st bishop indicted in US on sexual-abuse claim dies at 83

The Associated Press
Jan 03, 2017 6:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - Former Bishop Thomas Dupre, the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States to be indicted on a sexual-abuse claim during the flood of abu...
Veteran TV, stage director Jeffrey Hayden dies at 90

By LYNN ELBER
Jan 03, 2017 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jeffrey Hayden, who directed early live TV plays with stars including James Dean and who worked with wife Eva Marie Saint on screen and stage, has die...
Willow Creek recalls founding member who shaped church's look

By Eileen O. Daday
Jan 03, 2017 12:00 am - A founding member of Willow Creek Community Church whose leadership and vision helped shape the footprint of its South Barrington campus and expansion into other suburbs...
Hilarion Capucci, priest and Middle East activist, dies

The Associated Press
Jan 02, 2017 6:00 am - VATICAN CITY (AP) - Monsignor Hilarion Capucci, who was a Greek Melkite Catholic archbishop in Jerusalem when Israel convicted him in 1976 of using his diplomatic status...
Skier Jean Vuarnet, who struck gold with tuck position, dies

The Associated Press
Jan 02, 2017 6:00 am - PARIS (AP) - Olympic skiing champion Jean Vuarnet, who helped pioneer the aerodynamic tuck position for downhill racers but suffered tragedy with the deaths of his wife ...
John Berger, pioneering art critic and author, dies at 90

By JAKE COYLE and GREGORY KATZ
Jan 02, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - John Berger, the British art critic, intellectual and prodigious author whose pioneering 1972 book and the BBC series it spawned, "Ways of Seeing," redef...
Co-founder of Toronto International Film Festival dies

The Associated Press
Jan 02, 2017 6:00 am - TORONTO (AP) - A co-founder of the Toronto International Film Festival has died. Bill Marshall's family has issued a written statement saying he died in Toronto of a car...
'M.A.S.H.' star William Christopher dies at 84

By The Associated Press
Jan 01, 2017 6:00 am - "M.A.S.H." star William Christopher has died. He was 84. Christopher's agent Robert Malcom said the actor died at 5:10 a.m. Saturday at his home in Pasadena, California....

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