"Laura and I are deeply saddened by the passing of our good friend and a great American: Senator Jesse Helms. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife, Dot, and all the members of the Helms family.

If we’re lucky, he took some of his bitter bigotry with him. Jesse Helms, an unrepentant supporter of unnatural causes throughout his life, died of natural causes this morning at the age of 86. The ...

Helms died at 1:15 a.m., said the Jesse Helms Center at Wingate University in North Carolina. The center's president, John Dodd, said in a statement that funeral arrangements were pending. "He was ...

So where are we headed now? By Jay Caspian Kang A lawyer with abiding roots in white supremacy has no place on the federal bench. By William Barber II My state was once a bastion of Southern ...

Former North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms died early this morning in Raleigh. He was 86 years old, and he'd been sick for awhile. He died of natural causes, according to his former chief of staff.

LAST FRIDAY, on the Fourth of July, the great American patriot Jesse Helms passed away. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson also went to their great reward on Independence Day, so this is further proof of ...

The Charlotte Observer and The (Raleigh) News & Observer asked readers to share their memories of former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms. Dozens responded. Some admired him, some despised him. Here are edited ...

Conservative icon Jesse Helms of North Carolina, the senator who drives liberals nuts, is inching his way toward running for reelection in 2002. Helms, 79, was once thought certain to retire. In fact, ...