Jerry Musselwhite wanted to make sure he got to see Jesse Helms one last time. So Musselwhite left his home in Lumberton at 6 a.m. Monday for Raleigh, where the former U.S. senator was to lay in ...

Former North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms died of natural causes in Raleigh at 1:15am on July 4. Helms served 30 years in Congress and was known for his firebrand rhetoric and contentious political ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Dorothy Coble Helms, wife of the late U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, has died. She was 96. Spokesman Mark Blake of Brown-Wynne Funeral Home said Mrs. Helms died Friday in her hometown of ...

While Senator Jesse Helms, who died in 2008, would have been scandalized by Trump, the two men shared many political attributes.