Actress Raquel Welch dies at 82
Welch died early Wednesday after a brief illness, according to her agent, Stephen LaManna of the talent agency Innovative Artists.
Obituaries
Longtime WVAS radio host killed in Macon County accident
Marshall was a graduate of Tuskegee University and an Army veteran. He began his radio career in 1974.
‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ rapper Coolio dies at age 59
The cause was not immediately clear.
Alabama-Born Lead Singer of Temptations has Died.
Death of Dennis Edwards confirmed by CBS Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS) — Dennis Edwards, the lead singer of Motown legends The Temptations, has died at age 74. He was born in Birmingham in 1943 and would have turned 75 tomorrow. Edwards, Center “Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 as a member of the Temptations, Edwards replaced lead singer David Ruffin in 1968. The group’s original…
Civil Rights Pioneer Recy Taylor Dies at 97
Recy Taylor, a black Alabama woman whose rape by six white men in 1944 drew national attention, has died. She was 97. Taylor’s brother Robert Corbitt says she died in her sleep Thursday at a nursing home in Abbeville. She would have been 98 on Sunday. Taylor was 24 when she was abducted and raped as she walked home from…
