Death

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller dies at 81

March 22, 2026 Eric Tucker

WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert S. Mueller III, the FBI director who transformed the nation’s premier law enforcement agency into a terrorism-fighting force after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and who later became special counsel in charge of investigating […]

State Rep. Mike Clampitt dies after battle with cancer

March 18, 2026 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — North Carolina statehouse Rep. Mike Clampitt (R-Swain) died Wednesday after a battle with cancer. He was 71. Tributes and condolence messages began appearing on Clampitt’s Facebook page in wake of the news. Clampitt represented the House […]

Four-term North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt, a leader in education reform, dead at 88

December 18, 2025 Gary D. Robertson

RALEIGH — Four-term North Carolina Democratic Gov. Jim Hunt, a towering figure in state politics in the late 20th century who helped leaders from both major parties strive for public education reform, died Thursday at […]

Pope Francis dead at 88

April 21, 2025 The Associated Press

RALEIGH — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change, died Monday. Francis, […]

Statehouse Rep. Joe John dies at 85

January 23, 2025 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — North Carolina Rep. Joe John (D-Wake) died Jan. 22 at the age of 85 after a battle with cancer, per an announcement made on John’s official Facebook page by his family. “With profound sadness […]

Former President Jimmy Carter dead at 100

December 29, 2024 The Associated Press

RALEIGH — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House […]

OJ Simpson, fallen football hero acquitted of murder in ‘trial of the century,’ dies at 76

April 11, 2024 Ken Ritter

LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has […]

NCGOP attorney known for redistricting cases dead at 69

April 2, 2024 Gary D. Robertson

RALEIGH — Thomas Farr, a longtime North Carolina redistricting and election law attorney who regularly defended Republican interests but whose 2018 federal judgeship nomination was scuttled by two GOP senators, has died, a legal colleague said Tuesday. He […]

Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s monarch for 70 years, dies

September 8, 2022 The Associated Press

LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and a symbol of stability across much of a turbulent century, died Thursday. She was 96. Buckingham Palace said she died at Balmoral Castle, her summer residence […]

Senate leader, presidential candidate Bob Dole dies at 98

December 6, 2021 John Hanna and Calvin Woodward

TOPEKA — Bob Dole, who overcame disabling war wounds to become a sharp-tongued Senate leader from Kansas, a Republican presidential candidate and then a symbol and celebrant of his dwindling generation of World War II […]