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Clarke Reed, who helped Gerald Ford win the 1976 Republican nomination, has died at 96

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Clarke Reed, a Mississippi businessman who developed the Republican Party in his home state and across the South starting in the 1960s, died Sunday at his home in Greenville, Mississippi. He was 96. Reed was chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party from 1966 to 1976, beginning at a time when Democrats still dominated in the region. During the 1976 Republican National Convention, delegates were closely divided between President Gerald Ford and former California Gov. Ronald Reagan. Reed united the Mississippi delegation behind Ford — a move that created a ...

Frieder Reimold, journalist who wrote AP’s iconic ‘East Germany opens borders’ bulletin, dies at 80

BERLIN (AP) — Frieder Reimold, a former Berlin bureau chief of The Associated Press German-language service who wrote the iconic 1989 bulletin that East Germany had opened its borders, has died. He was 80. Reimold died Thursday in Berlin of complications related to cancer, his daughter Nancy Stephan told the AP. He began working for AP as a political correspondent in Bonn in the late 1970s after entering journalism on a German newspaper. After months of overtime writing about upheaval and protests in East Germany, Reimold, who had by then become the Berlin bureau chief of AP’s ...

Nikki Giovanni, poet and literary celebrity, has died at 81

NEW YORK (AP) — Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her first book to spending decades as a literary celebrity who shared blunt and conversational takes on everything from racism and love to space travel and mortality, has ...

Laura “Jimmy” Brown

Laura “Jimmy” Brown, 97, of Flatwoods, West Virginia, passed away on Friday, November 1, 2024, at Braxton County Memorial Hospital in Gassaway, West Virginia. She was born September 12, 1927, in Flatwoods, West Virginia. She attended Sutton High School and graduated with the class of 1946. ...

Jeffery W. Life

Jeffery W. Life, 65, of Parkersburg, passed away Dec. 3, 2024, at WVU Medicine. A private cremation will take place at Mid-Ohio Valley Cremation Society.

Ronald H. Moore

Ronald H. Moore, 76, of Marietta, Ohio, passed away Dec. 6, 2024, at Marietta Memorial Hospital. A private cremation will take place at Mid-Ohio Valley Cremation Society.