Sidney Robbins, a former Navy commander and construction company owner, dies at age 95

Sidney Robbins was a commander with one of the U.S. Navy’s original Underwater Demolition Teams in World War II who later started a construction company in Chicago and built numerous post-war homes, shopping centers and high-rises, including the Water Tower Place. Many years later, Mr. …

Dorothy Fuller ‘put the “Chic” in Chicago’

Susan Glick said she’ll never forget that brief, shining moment on the street outside the InterContinental Hotel in Paris. She was with Chicago fashion maven Dorothy Fuller when Karl Lagerfeld appeared. Lagerfeld — that leathery, legendary fashion designer whose silver mane and gloved, vaguely equestrian …

Larry Dever, 60, outspoken Arizona sheriff on border security

PHOENIX — Larry Dever, the four-term Republican sheriff of Cochise County who was an outspoken advocate for stronger border security, has been killed in a one-vehicle crash near the northern Arizona town of Williams. He was 60. Mr. Dever’s death was confirmed early Wednesday by …

Ashbel Green, 84, old-school publishing figure discovered ‘Friends of Eddie Coyle’

NEW YORK — Ashbel Green, a versatile and respected editor at Alfred A. Knopf who persuaded Gabriel Garcia Marquez to switch publishers, worked on Walter Cronkite’s memoir and a foreign policy book by President George H.W. Bush and helped discover the crime classic “The Friends …

Physicist worked with Fermi, went on to be a lawyer

A physicist who worked on the atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Julius Tabin disregarded advice from government nuclear officials to avoid having children after being exposed to high doses of radiation as he gathered soil samples after the first tests of the bomb.His …

The ‘milkman,’ dead at 64, provided dairy products to Chicago’s public schools

Around Chicago, Frank J. McMahon was known as “the milkman.” His family’s McMahon Food Corp. is one of the area’s largest dairy-distribution companies. Mr. McMahon, who lived on the near West Side, died Sunday at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood. He was 64.

Russell Train, 92, former EPA administrator

WASHINGTON — Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Russell Train, a leading American conservationist who helped craft some of the nation’s enduring environmental laws, died Monday at age 92.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said late Monday that as a leader with the federal agency at the …

‘The creative genius’ of NFL Films

NEW YORK — With the eye of an art history major, Steve Sabol filmed the NFL as a ballet and blockbuster movie all in one. Half of the father-son team that revolutionized sports broadcasting, the NFL Films president died Tuesday of brain cancer at 69 …

‘General Hospital’ actor John Ingle dies in LA at 84

NEW YORK (AP) — An actor who for two decades played a scheming patriarch on the daytime drama “General Hospital” has died in Los Angeles. ABC says John Ingle was 84.

Ingle took over the role as the ruthless Edward Quartermaine in 1993 and made …

Joyce Chenoweth Mutz, former curling champion and official, dies at age 89

Joyce Chenoweth Mutz was not your typical grandmother. On her 70th birthday, she went sky diving. Well into her 80s, she traveled around the globe to go scuba diving — from the Bahamas and Fiji to the Great Barrier Reef and Indonesia. She had another …

Founder of Beck’s Bookstores, Cub fan

When macular degeration limited his field of vision, Bob Beck never gave up on his field of dreams. Mr. Beck, who founded Beck’s Bookstores, continued to use his season tickets at Wrigley Field, “watching” the Cubs with wide-angle binoculars and the radio. When it grew …

Sharon McGhee, WVON news director, dead of ovarian cancer at 55

Sharon McGhee — who came to Chicago in 1997 detemined to find a job at WVON Radio and went on to become a talk-show host and news director there — has died from ovarian cancer, according to her family. She was 55 and also wrote plays. Ms. McGhee, who once served in the Army, will be memorialized Saturday in St. Louis at a service featuring a 21-gun salute.

Bob Gammage, former Texas congressman who defeated Ron Paul

AUSTIN, Texas — Bob Gammage, a Democratic lawmaker and unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate who was part of the early 1970s “Dirty 30” in the Texas House and who once beat Ron Paul when running for Congress, died Monday, his family said. He was 74. Mr. Gammage …

Mario Zamparelli, 81, designed logos for Howard Hughes

LOS ANGELES — Internationally renowned artist Mario Armond Zamparelli, best known for creating the distinctive logos and images for reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes’ many companies, has died at age 81. Mr. Zamparelli’s daughter Marisa Zamparelli told the AP the artist died Saturday at a Southern …

Ron Taylor, 78, shark expert helped film scenes in ‘Jaws’

SYDNEY — Ron Taylor, a beloved Australian marine conservationist who helped film some of the terrifying underwater footage used in the classic shark thriller “Jaws,” has died after a long battle with cancer, a close family friend said Monday. He was 78. Mr. Taylor, who …