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Funeral services held for local Air Force cadet
Funeral services were held this weekend for James L. Walsh, an Air Force Academy cadet from Tinley Park who was found dead Feb. 9 on the Colorado campus. Walsh's body arrived at Midway Airport from the academy campus near Colorado Springs on Feb. 13,...
Tags: Midway Airport, Science and Technology
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Dennis Rodman chokes up over Jerry Buss on 'The Tonight Show'
Dennis Rodman has plenty of faults, but being out of touch with his emotions surely isn't one of them. In an appearance on "The Tonight Show" Monday to promote the upcoming season of "All-Star Celebrity Apprentice," the former Chicago Bull was...Tags: Los Angeles Lakers, Jay Leno, Dennis Rodman, Michael Jackson, Celebrities
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Animal rights activist Pat Derby dies at 69
L.A. NOWPat Derby, a former Hollywood animal trainer turned animal rights activist, has died. She was 69. Derby, who later devoted her life to protecting and rescuing exotic and performing animals, died Friday of complications related to throat cancer in San........ -
Discussion: The legacy of Jerry Buss
Legendary Lakers owner Dr. Jerry Buss, 80, died Monday, leaving an impressive NBA legacy behind him. Join us at 10:30 a.m. today as Times Lakers writer Mike Bresnhan and Deputy Sports Editor John Cherwa discuss Buss in a live video chat you will be...
Tags: Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson, Kobe Bryant, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jerry Buss
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PASSINGS: Michael Parrish, Bobby Sharp
This article has been corrected. See note below for details.Michael Parrish Former editor of the Los Angeles Times magazine Michael Parrish, 67, who oversaw the reinvention of the Sunday magazine in the Los Angeles Times in the mid-1980s, died Friday of liver failure while under hospice care in the Los Angeles...Tags: Freedom of the Press, Periodicals, Music, Sammy Davis Jr., Entertainment
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'After Visiting Friends': A son's search for his father
A couple of years ago I got a call from the deputy editor at Gentleman’s Quarterly, the Manhattan-based monthly magazine focusing on style, culture and other manly matters. His name is Michael Hainey, and he wanted to know what I knew about...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, Manhattan (New York City), Newspapers, Bars and Clubs, Lifestyle and Leisure
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PASSINGS: Jim Sweeney, Ira Rubin, Guy Tozzoli
Jim Sweeney Coach transformed Fresno State football Jim Sweeney, 83, who called Fresno State "a sleeping giant" when he arrived as its football coach in 1976 and then awakened the university — and the region — with 19 years of...
Tags: Electronics, National Football League, Regional Authority, Science and Technology, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
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PASSINGS: Ronald Dworkin, Alan Sharp
Ronald Dworkin Constitutional law expert and liberal scholar Ronald Dworkin, 81, an American philosopher, constitutional law expert and liberal scholar who argued that the law should be founded on moral integrity, died Thursday of leukemia in London,...
Tags: Arthur Penn, Leukemia, University of Oxford, New York University, Peter Fonda
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PASSINGS: Dyer Brainerd Holmes, T.S. Cook, Joel Schaeffer
Dyer Brainerd Holmes NASA manned space flight director Dyer Brainerd Holmes, 91, director of manned space flight for NASA when Americans were making their early forays into space in the early 1960s, died Friday at a hospital in Memphis, Tenn., of...Tags: Chernobyl Disaster (1986), Jane Fonda, Writers Guild of America, Space Programs, Apollo Moon Mission (1961-1975)
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Michael Hainey book raises questions about truth versus family
Say you had a family secret. A juicy one. The kind that speaks volumes about families. And you wrote a book about it. But your family hates the book. Or, at the very least, potentially feels embarrassment from it. Would you still release that book?...
Tags: Irving Park, Authors, Heart Attack, Literature, Chicago Sun-Times
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James DePreist, conductor and Pasadena Symphony advisor, dies at 76
James DePreist, the conductor and educator who had been artistic advisor for Pasadena Symphony and Pops since 2010, died on Friday at 76. DePreist died at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz., of complications from a heart attack he suffered last spring. In...Tags: Arts and Culture, George W. Bush, Music, Entertainment, Culture
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Leon Leyson dies at 83; youngest survivor on Schindler's List
Among the 1,100 Jews saved from the Nazis by German industrialist Oskar Schindler was an emaciated 13-year-old boy named Leon Leyson, who had to stand on a box to reach the machinery in the Krakow factory where Schindler sheltered him and his family....
Tags: Movies, Judaism, Steven Spielberg, Entertainment, Language
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