By Diamond Williams Mississippi Link Intern A memorial was held April 7, at Tougaloo College in honor of student Jana Clanton who died in a car accident April 6. Tougaloo College’s historic Woolworth Chapel was […]
LOS ANGELES — Former first lady Nancy Reagan has died at 94 in Bel-Air, California. Assistant Allison Borio says Mrs. Reagan died Sunday at her home of congestive heart failure. Her marriage to Ronald Reagan […]
MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) — A funeral home says Elvis Presley’s former personal doctor has died. Memorial Park Funeral Home in Memphis said in an obituary posted on its website that 88-year-old George C. Nichopoulos died […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Harper Lee, the elusive novelist whose child’s-eye view of racial injustice in a small Southern town, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” became standard reading for millions of young people and an Oscar-winning […]
1937 – 2016 Winifred A. Green, a fifth generation Mississippian from a prominent Jackson family who defied tradition, threats and family disapproval to join the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, died February 6 in […]
The Mississippi Link Newswire LaTonya Williams Pittman, daughter of Melvin Williams of the gospel group The Williams Brothers, passed unexpectedly Jan. 29 at her home. She was 35 years-old. Pittman of Smithdale, was a licensed […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Longtime Mississippi TV journalist Bert Case has died after an extended illness. WAPT-TV Assistant News Director Aaron Vogel confirmed Case’s death Thursday. He says Case passed away about 2:45 p.m. at […]
Septermber 11, 1983 – January 16, 2016 Lois Faye Butler was born September 11, 1938 to Aaron and Hermene Wadlington in Carrollton, Miss. She made her transition to her eternal home January 16, 2016 at […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Character actor Abe Vigoda, whose leathery, sad-eyed face made him ideal for playing the over-the-hill detective Phil Fish in the 1970s TV series “Barney Miller” and the doomed Mafia soldier in […]
TOKYO (AP) — The world’s oldest man, a Japanese, died Tuesday at the age of 112 after suffering chronic heart problems, officials said. Yasutaro Koide had said his secret to a long life was not […]
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