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    Longtime former Chautauqua County Legislator Jay Gould has died. Gould died Monday, April 1. He represented Legislative District 17 that encompassed the towns of Clymer, Panama, Harmony, and Busti from January 2000 until his retirement in December 2022. Gould served as Chairman of the County Legislature from 2012 to 2016. He served on the Legislature’s […]

  • Roland Coleman Jr., former L.A. County Bar Assn. president, dies at 74

    Attorney Roland Lee Coleman Jr., the second Black person to lead the Los Angeles County Bar Assn., has died. He was 74. Coleman also served as president of the John M. Langston Bar Assn. of Los Angeles, founded in the 1920s to serve and support Black lawyers excluded from other bar associations. Coleman once recounted being told that a Black attorney couldn’t win cases in Glendale or Fullerton. In the face of racism, "I really believed I had to be better than anybody else," he said. In the...

  • Cafecito: Former governor Graham dies

    Bob Graham, who served Florida as a two-term governor (1979-87) and three-term senator (1987-2005), died yesterday at a Gainesville retirement community. He was 87. (Tallahassee Democrat)