AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) – Pete Brown, the first black player to win a PGA Tour event, died Friday. He was 80. PGA Tour officials say Brown died in Augusta. Details on the cause of death […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Percy Sledge, who soared from part-time singer and hospital orderly to lasting fame with his aching, forlorn performance on the classic “When a Man Loves a Woman,” died Tuesday in Louisiana. […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Just days after becoming the world’s oldest documented person, 116-year-old Gertrude Weaver has died in Arkansas. The Williams Funeral Home confirms that Weaver died Monday at the Silver Oaks Health […]
The Mississippi Link Newswire A noted preacher and civil rights activist died yesterday at the age of 96. Gardner Calvin Taylor (June 18, 1918 – April 5, 2015) was an American preacher, noted for his eloquence […]
Activist….Leader….Lecturer….Author….Trailblazer…Powerhouse Known as “Sistah Hurricane,” Stephanie Parker Weaver, a cherished wife, mother, sister, and friend, was born September 30, 1962 in Jackson, Mississippi. Stephanie was the third of four children of the late Frank and […]
MOSS POINT, Mississippi (AP) — The deputy U.S. marshal who died in a shootout was a leader who carried on his family’s legacy in law enforcement, Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday at his funeral. […]
MOSS POINT, Mississippi (AP) — A funeral will be held next week for Josie Wells, a deputy U.S. marshal who was killed in the line of duty. Arrangements were announced Thursday by Wells’ alma mater, […]
The Mississippi Link Newswire Funeral arrangements have been set for Jackson State University’s longtime director of Choral Activities, Willenham Cortez Castilla, who died Feb. 28. The funeral will take place 11 a.m. Friday, March 6, […]
By ANNE M. PETERSON PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Portland Trail Blazers honored beloved former player Jerome Kersey with an emotional 25 seconds of silence before their game against the Memphis Grizzlies on Sunday night. Kersey, […]
By CHARLES J. GANS NEW YORK (AP) — Legendary jazz trumpeter Clark Terry, who mentored Miles Davis and Quincy Jones and played in the orchestras of both Count Basie and Duke Ellington and on “The Tonight […]
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