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Vernon Hills police officer dies of cancer

By Russell Lissau
Feb 17, 2016 12:00 am - A decorated Vernon Hills police officer succumbed to esophageal cancer Wednesday. Officer Andy Rheintgen had been with the department for 17 years, first as a commun...
Singer, actress Denise Matthews, known as Vanity, dies

By JESSE J. HOLLAND
Feb 16, 2016 6:00 am - Vanity, a Prince protege who renounced her sexy stage persona to become a Christian minister, has died. She was 57. The singer and actress, born Denise Matthews, died Mo...
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, first UN chief from Africa, dies

By MAGGIE MICHAEL
Feb 16, 2016 6:00 am - CAIRO (AP) - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, a veteran Egyptian diplomat who helped negotiate his country's landmark peace deal with Israel but then clashed with the United State...
Longtime baker, partner remembered as part of Jarosch's success

By Eileen O. Daday
Feb 16, 2016 12:00 am - Joseph Stephan dies at age 88
Correction: Croatia-Obit-Denzinger story

The Associated Press
Feb 15, 2016 6:00 am - ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) - In some versions of a story Feb. 14 about the death of suspected former Nazi prison guard Jakob Denzinger, The Associated Press reported erroneous...
Former Chrysler Chair John J. Riccardo dies at age 91

The Associated Press
Feb 15, 2016 6:00 am - DETROIT (AP) - Former Chrysler Chair John J. Riccardo has died. He was 91. The Rev. John C. Riccardo says Monday that his father died Saturday. The Detroit Free Press re...
Pulitzer prize-winning composer Steven Stucky dies at 66

The Associated Press
Feb 15, 2016 6:00 am - ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) - A Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, longtime Cornell University faculty member and resident composer with the Los Angeles Philharmonic has died. Steve...
Warren Manzi, writer of long-running 'Perfect Crime,' dies

By MARK KENNEDY
Feb 15, 2016 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Playwright and director Warren Manzi, whose cat-and-mouse thriller "Perfect Crime" is the longest-running play in New York history, died Thursday of pneu...
Justice Antonin Scalia, influential conservative, dead at 79

By MARK SHERMAN
Feb 14, 2016 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Antonin Scalia, the influential conservative and most provocative member of the Supreme Court, has died, leaving the high court without its conservativ...
Czech designer, architect Borek Sipek dies at age 66

The Associated Press
Feb 13, 2016 6:00 am - PRAGUE (AP) - Borek Sipek, Czech architect and designer best known in his country for his work for late President Vaclav Havel has died. He was 66. Prague's Vaclav Havel...

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