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Lloyd Dobyns Jr., Peabody Award-winning TV newsman, dead at 85

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MEBANE, N.C. (AP) — Lloyd Dobyns Jr., an award-winning NBC News correspondent who reported from places around the world and who anchored an innovative US television newscast in the early 1980s, has died, his family said.

He was 85.Ken Dobyns said in a statement that his father died Sunday in Mebane, North Carolina, northwest of Raleigh. He said his father suffered complications from a series of strokes.Dobyns worked for NBC News in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, and was known in America for working with Linda Ellerbee on the late-night news series “NBC News Overnight” in 1982 and 1983, according to a statement released by Ken Dobyns and online with a Raleigh funeral home.“He was a friend, teacher, trouble-maker, and a world-class.

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