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SHIRLEY J. BINION, 88, Niles. SERVICES: 11 a.m. Tuesday, Holloway-Williams Funeral Home, Niles. CALLING HOURS: 9 to 11 a.m. Tuesday, funeral home. MIRIAM A. HOPKINS, 102, Hubbard. SERVICES: 4 p.m. Saturday, First Baptist Church of Hubbard. CALLING HOURS: 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, church. CAROL F. LEFFLER, 49, Niles. SERVICES: 6 p.m. Friday, Warren Revival Center. CALLING HOURS: 5 to 6 p.m. Friday, Warren Revival Center. JANET A. MANN, 95, Warren. SERVICES: noon Tuesday, Staton-Borowski Funeral Home, Warren. CALLING HOURS: 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday, funeral home. DAMIEN WILLIAMS, 25, ...

Bob Hall, father of wheelchair racing, a 2-time winner of the Boston Marathon, dies at 74

BOSTON (AP) — Bob Hall, a childhood polio survivor who became known as the father of wheelchair racing after twice winning the Boston Marathon and then going on to build racing chairs for the generations of competitors that followed, has died. He was 74. The Boston Athletic Association said Hall’s family confirmed his death on Sunday. In 1975, Hall convinced Boston Marathon organizers to let him into the race and was promised a finishers’ certificate like the one the runners got if he completed the 26.2-mile distance in under 3 hours. (In 1970, Vietnam War veteran Eugene ...

John Donaldson, the father of Denmark’s Queen Mary, dies

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The father of Denmark’s Australian-born Queen Mary, John Donaldson, has died in Tasmania, the royal house in Copenhagen said Sunday. He was 84. Donaldson died in Hobart, a royal statement said, without giving further details. It said that his health had been declining over the past few years, and that the queen last visited him at the end of March. John Dalgleish Donaldson, born in Scotland on Sept. 5, 1941, was a professor of applied mathematics. Mary became Denmark’s queen in January 2024 after two decades as crown princess when her husband became ...

Bollywood singer Asha Bhosle dies

NEW DELHI (AP) — Asha Bhosle, one of India’s most versatile Bollywood singers whose performances shaped the country’s musical memory and modern cinema, has died. She was 92. The legendary singer across genres died Sunday of multiple organ failure at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai, Pratit Samdani, a physician at the hospital said. Her son, Anand Bhosle, told reporters that her last rites will be performed on Monday. Asha was admitted at the hospital on late Saturday with a chest infection and exhaustion, her granddaughter Zanai Bhosle said in a social media post. Asha’s ...

Janet A. Mann 1930-2026

WARREN — Janet A. Mann, 95, entered into eternal rest Thursday, April 9, 2026, at Shepherd of the Valley in Howland. She was born Aug. 7, 1930, in Bellwood, Pa., the daughter of Charles and Mary Esther Ross Vandevander. Janet graduated from Bellwood-Antis High School. She was a ...

Shirley J. Binion 1937-2026

NILES — Shirley J. Binion, 88, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, at her residence with her loving family by her side. She was born Aug. 14, 1937, in Warren, a daughter of William “Tom” and Myrtle McQuinney Dawkins. Shirley was a member of Believers ...