Jim Axel was a longtime news anchor for WAGA-TV in Atlanta, who had been battling lung cancer for the last four years. Axel got his start in radio scrubbing floors at KANO-AM in Anoka, Minnesota in 1956, where he eventually got behind the microphone. There was a stop at WCHK-AM in Canton, Georgia from 1957 to 1959, where he was announcer and chief engineer, before moving to WSB-AM (750) in Atlanta in 1959. Axel would then move down the hall to WSB-TV, where his on-camera TV career began. Axel was 75 when he died. Read more about his storied career here – Discuss it … Roy Butler was the former mayor of Austin, Texas, but at one point he also owned KVET & KASE-FM. Butler owned a number of other businesses in Austin, including a car dealership and a beer distributorship, and he served for a while as mayor. The City of Austin recently named their police training academy after Butler, due to his longtime support of law enforcement. Butler died following complications of a recent fall he suffered. He was 83 – Discuss it … He was born Derek Boland, and was one of the first British rappers to achieve mainstream success in England in the 1980’s with the Top-20 hits “Good Groove” & “Bad Young Brother.” Derek B got his start as a 15-year old DJ working at a pirate radio station. He died following a heart attack. Derek B was only 44.