WASHINGTON – (AP) William Raspberry, who became the second black columnist to win a Pulitzer Prize for his widely read syndicated commentaries in The Washington Post, died Tuesday. He was 76. Raspberry had prostate cancer […]
DETROIT – (AP) Prominent Motown studio musician and Funk Brothers member Bob Babbitt, whose bass playing pounded through the Temptations hit “Ball of Confusion” and Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology),” has died. He […]
A Los Angeles Times Report VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Maria Cole, the widow of music legend Nat King Cole and the mother of singer Natalie Cole whose own singing career included a stint as vocalist […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) Andy Griffith’s gift to the show that bore his name wasn’t just the homespun wisdom of the plain-spoken sheriff he played. It was the place he created: a small town where all […]
BRANDON – (AP) Jack Brooks Lacy Jr., who as an assistant U.S. attorney led the first federal murder prosecution in a civil rights-era killing, has died. He was 69. Lacy died Friday of a single […]
From The New York Times MIAMI, Fla. – Erica Kennedy, a music writer turned novelist who came to wide attention in 2004 with the publication of her first novel, “Bling,” a satirical roman à clef about […]
Funeral services set for Monday, June 18 by Gail M. Brown Editor Longtime Jackson resident Bernice Mae Allen Stimley died Wednesday morning, June 13, in a Jackson-area hospital. Stimley was 103-years-old. A native of Meehan […]
NEW YORK – (AP) Richard Dawson brought a saucy, unabashedly touchy-feely style to TV game shows as host of “Family Feud.” The British-born entertainer, who died Saturday at age 79 from complications related to esophageal […]
JACKSON – (AP) Former state Sen. Ezell Lee of Picayune died Monday after battling cancer. That’s according to a Senate staff member who had spoken with his family. Lee was 74. Lee served in the […]
From Media Reports Robin Gibb, one of three brothers who made up the disco group the Bee Gees, who was behind “Saturday Night Fever” and other now-iconic sounds from the 1970s, died Sunday, after a […]
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