Obituaries
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Retired CBS Radio News reporter Lou Miliano dies in FloridaJan 11, 2015 10:00 pm - PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (AP) - Longtime CBS Radio News reporter Lou Miliano has died in Florida. He was 67. A news release from CBS News says Miliano died Monday at a Pinell...
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Print and TV journalist Wallace Westfeldt dies at age 91Jan 11, 2015 10:00 pm - PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) - Wallace O. Westfeldt, whose half-century journalism career started in print and led to network and public broadcasting, died Sunday at the age o...
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Dutch fashion designer Frans Molenaar dies at age 74Jan 11, 2015 10:00 pm - THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Frans Molenaar, a versatile Dutch fashion designer whose clothes graced catwalk models, royalty and garbage men, has died at age 74. Molena...
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2 Tuskegee Airmen, both 91, die on same day in Los AngelesJan 11, 2015 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Clarence E. Huntley Jr. and Joseph Shambrey grew up running track together in the same Los Angeles neighborhood in the 1930s. When World War II broke ...
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Russian opera diva Obraztsova dies at 75Jan 11, 2015 10:00 pm - MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's famed mezzo-soprano Elena Obraztsova, who has performed at the world's top opera houses, died Monday at age 75. Obraztsova's cultural foundation s...
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La Dolce Vita actress Anita Ekberg dies at 83Jan 10, 2015 10:00 pm - MILAN (AP) - Anita Ekberg, the Swedish-born actress and sex-symbol of the 1950s and '60s who was immortalized bathing in the Trevi fountain in "La Dolce Vita," has died....
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2 Tuskegee Airmen die in Los Angeles at 91 on the same dayJan 10, 2015 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two members of the Tuskegee Airmen - the famed all-black squadron that flew in World War II - died on the same day. The men, lifelong friends who enli...
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'Retired' Arlington Hts. woman worked 20 years at newsstandJan 10, 2015 12:01 am - Alice Freier worked for more than 20 years at the Westgate Book Store & Newspaper shop in Arlington Heights, dispensing a cheerful smile and witty advice to the hundreds...
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Notable deaths last weekJan 10, 2015 12:01 am - • Rod Taylor, the suave Australian actor whose brawny good looks made him a leading man for films ranging from thrillers to Westerns, has died. He was 84. His breakthrou...
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Novelist Robert Stone, known for 'Dog Soldiers' dies at 77Jan 09, 2015 10:00 pm - NEW YORK (AP) - Robert Stone, the award-winning novelist who spun out tales worldwide of seekers, frauds and other misbegotten American dreamers in such works as "A Flag...