BENTON, Ill. (AP) — Rebecca Jane “Becky” Malkovich, a longtime southern Illinois journalist whose newspapering family includes actor John Malkovich, has died.

Malkovich was 53 when she died Monday at St. Louis’ Barnes-Jewish Hospital, five days after suffering a heart attack at her home in Benton, according to The (Carbondale) Southern Illinoisan, for which she had reported for nearly the past 11 years.

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