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Walter Royal, the chef of a destination steakhouse in North Carolina who triumphed as a challenger on “Iron Chef America” by cooking mostly Southern dishes with ostrich meat, has died.
Gordon Lightfoot, Canada’s legendary folk singer-songwriter whose hits include “Early Morning Rain” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” has died at age 84.
Wright was the visionary who started the nonprofit organization in 1982. Its mission is to support Black journalists in Hampton Roads and inspire Black students to pursue college and media-related careers.
Walter C. Cole, better known as the iconic drag queen who performed for decades as Darcelle XV, has died of natural causes in Portland, Oregon. Cole was 92.
John "Kimball" Payne, a former Baltimore Sun reporter who later became a Virginia investment banker, died Feb. 25 from sarcoma at his Virginia Beach home. He was 44.
Michael Shipp, owner and founder of East Coast Bicycles on Colley Avenue, was killed Thursday after being struck by a pickup truck on a state highway in South Carolina. He'd just turned 53 two days before, on Valentine's Day.