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July 17, 2025

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Brian Wilson, Beach Boys co-founder, dies at 82

June 19, 2025 Hillel Italie

NEW YORK — Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader who helped compose and arrange “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and dozens of other summertime anthems to become one of the world’s most influential […]

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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 […]

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Actor Michael K. Williams, Omar on ‘The Wire,’ dead at 54

September 6, 2021 Michael R. Sisak and Andrew Dalton, Associated Press

NEW YORK — Actor Michael K. Williams, who as the rogue robber of drug dealers Omar Little on “The Wire” created one of the most popular characters in television in recent decades, died Monday. Williams […]

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Actor Ed Asner, TV’s blustery Lou Grant, dies at 91

August 30, 2021 Marcela Isaza, Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Ed Asner, the burly and prolific character actor who became a star in middle age as the gruff but lovable newsman Lou Grant, first in the hit comedy “The Mary Tyler Moore […]

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Jackie Mason, comic who perfected amused outrage, dies at 93

July 29, 2021 The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Jackie Mason, a rabbi-turned-comedian whose feisty brand of standup comedy led him to Catskills nightclubs, West Coast talk shows and Broadway stages, has died. He was 93. Mason died Saturday at 6 […]

Features

Carolyn Madeline Cates Hurley – Obituary

July 21, 2021 North State Journal Staff

Carolyn Cates Hurley October 26, 1941 – July 19, 2021 Carolyn Madeline Cates Hurley, 79, of Salisbury, NC passed away Monday, July 19, 2021 at Novant Rowan Regional Medical Center. Born October 26, 1941 in […]

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‘Cops’ creator John Langley dies during road race in Mexico

June 28, 2021 The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — John Langley creator of the long-running TV series “Cops,” has died during a road race in Mexico, a family spokeswoman said. Langley died in Baja, Mexico, of an apparent heart attack Saturday […]

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Pioneering comic Paul Mooney, a writer for Pryor, dies at 79

May 20, 2021 Jake Coyle, Associated Press

NEW YORK — Paul Mooney, the boundary-pushing comedian who was Richard Pryor’s longtime writing partner and whose bold, incisive musings on racism and American life made him a revered figure in stand-up, has died. He […]

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Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer has died at 77

May 18, 2021 Kevin McGill, Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — Buddy Roemer, a Harvard-educated reform-minded politician whose one tumultuous term as Louisiana’s governor was marked by bruising political battles over taxes, budgets and abortion, died Monday at age 77. His son, Chas […]

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Lloyd Price, singer and early rock influence, dies at 88

May 9, 2021 The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Singer-songwriter Lloyd Price, an early rock ‘n roll star and enduring maverick whose hits included such up-tempo favorites as “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” “Personality” and the semi-forbidden “Stagger Lee,” has died. He was […]

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