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Dennis Richmond Dies: Longtime Bay Area News Anchor Was 81
Legendary Bay Area news anchor Dennis Richmond, one of the nation's first Black anchors of a major market TV newscast, died Wednesday. Watch tribute.
Friends told KTVU that Richmond died in Grass Valley, CA, with his wife, Deborah, at his side. A cause of death was not revealed, but Richmond’s longtime co-anchor, Julie Haener, now retired, told KTVU that he had suffered a heart attack and fall weeks before. Richmond joined KTVU as a clerk and rose to the rank of anchor in 1976, a job he held until 2008, when he retired five days before he turned 65, according to the station.
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