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Christian cartoon tract creator Jack Chick dies at 92

By ROBERT JABLON
Oct 24, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jack T. Chick, whose cartoon tracts preached fundamentalist Christianity while vilifying secular society, evolution, homosexuality, and the beliefs of...
Former Uruguayan President Jorge Batlle dies at 88

By LEONARDO HABERKORN
Oct 24, 2016 7:00 am - MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) - Former President Jorge Batlle, an extroverted and irreverent politician who was a force in Uruguayan politics for half a century and led it du...
1960s pop singer Bobby Vee has died at age 73

By JEFF BAENEN
Oct 24, 2016 7:00 am - MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Pop idol Bobby Vee, the boyish, grinning 1960s singer whose career was born when he took a Midwestern stage as a teenager to fill in after the 1959 pl...
Through his life, Tom Hayden dedicated to changing the world

By LINDA DEUTSCH and TAREK HAMADA
Oct 24, 2016 7:00 am - SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - During more than 50 years in the public eye, Tom Hayden went from firebrand college liberal to mainstream politician to elder political state...
Chicago DJ Herb Kent dies after 7-decade career in radio

The Associated Press
Oct 23, 2016 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - One of Chicago's earliest African-American disc jockeys, Herb Kent, has died at age 88 after a seven-decade career. The radio station where Kent worked, i...
Sheikh Khalifa, deposed former ruler of Qatar, dies at 84

By ADAM SCHRECK
Oct 23, 2016 7:00 am - Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the former emir of the tiny Gulf nation of Qatar who was deposed by his son in a bloodless palace coup, died on Sunday. The emiri diwa...
Simone Schaller, Olympic hurdler in '32 and '36, dies at 104

The Associated Press
Oct 22, 2016 7:00 am - ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) - Simone Schaller, an American hurdler who competed at the 1932 and 1936 Summer Games and was believed to be the oldest living Olympian, has died. S...
Junko Tabei, 1st woman to climb Everest, dies at 77

By KEN MORITSUGU
Oct 22, 2016 7:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - The first woman to climb Mount Everest didn't stop there. Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei, who died Thursday at 77, devoted her adult life to scaling peaks...
Comic's comic Kevin Meaney has died at age 60

The Associated Press
Oct 22, 2016 7:00 am - FORESTBURGH, New York (AP) - Kevin Meaney, a comic's comic who worked the standup circuit, was a staple on late-night TV and starred in the short-lived 1990s CBS series ...
Mettawa trustee remembered as 'humble man'

By Robert Sanchez
Oct 22, 2016 1:00 am - Jess Ray knew exactly who to call to help him out of a jam after a night of heavy snow in Mettawa a few years ago. Ray's snowblower wasn't working, and his car was stuck...

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