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Amy Sussman/Getty Images for BETThe cause of the Atlanta rapper's death has yet to be released. His brother, Lil Gotit, posted about Lil Keed's death over Instagram early Saturday . -
Jason Merritt/TERM/Getty ImagesIn addition to his music career, Gilley was also famous for being the face of a nightclub that pushed Texas cowboy culture into a global spotlight.
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Jill Swain was Huntersville's mayor from 2007-2015. She led the town's chamber of commerce and mounted apolitical comeback in 2021, but narrowly lost to current Mayor Melina Bales.
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The key player in a North Carolina absentee ballot fraud probe that led to a do-over congressional election has died. The family of Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. and a friend confirmed he died Sunday at his daughter's Bladen County home.
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Hatch, the longest-serving Republican senator in history, was known for working across party lines.
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Guy Lafleur is the Montreal Canadiens' all-time high scorer, with an astonishing 1,246 points.
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Friends and family said their final goodbyes to clothing designer Cary Mitchell on Friday at Victory Christian Center Dome in Charlotte. Mitchell, who was known for his custom clothing designs in this region and beyond, died on April 2.
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According to a post on his verified Twitter feed, he died following a long illness. He was 67.
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Harris hollered her way into TV history as George Costanza's short-fused mother on "Seinfeld" and voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the "Toy Story" franchise. She was 93.
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Charlotte-based custom clothing designer Cary Mitchell died unexpectedly on Saturday morning. Mitchell counted some of the biggest names in professional sports as his clients.
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The former U.S. secretary of state recalled the first time she met Russian President Vladimir Putin back in 1999 during the Clinton administration.
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Robert J. Vlasic died at his home earlier this month at age 96. The businessman helped grow Vlasic into America's number-one pickle by not taking himself, or the company, too seriously.
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Angell's writing earned him a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame, when he received a career excellence award in 2014. He died May 20 at the age of 101. Originally broadcast in 2001.
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The Challenger is a Black-owned, woman-owned newspaper in Buffalo, N.Y. One of its journalists, Katherine Massey, was killed in the grocery store attack this month that left 10 African Americans dead.
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Colin Cantwell worked on other films including 2001: A Space Odyssey and WarGames. He was 90.
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One of the founding mothers of feminist theology has died. Rosemary Radford Ruether was among the first scholars to think deeply about the role of women in Christianity.
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Two sisters from Nashville, Tenn., remember their father David Hardee, who died of COVID-19 in March.
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Ruether was among the first scholars to think deeply about the role of women in Christianity, shaking up old patriarchies and pushing for change.
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Roger Angell wrote about baseball like no one else. NPR's Scott Simon has this remembrance of the essayist, who died at age 101 Friday.
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Vangelis composed the music for Blade Runner and Chariots of Fire, which won him an Academy Award.
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Debra McCoskey-Reisert remembers her brother, Bobby McCoskey, who died from COVID. Bobby loved the song Closing Time by Semisonic, because they played it at dances he attended.
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Colleagues, friends and admirers are paying tribute to Vaid, the pioneering attorney and organizer who died at age 63 on Friday. She worked for the ACLU and National LGBTQ Task Force, among others.
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At least 1 million people have died in the U.S. from COVID-19. NPR's Songs of Remembrance project shares some of their stories and the music they loved.
