Longtime Georgia dealer Jim Ellis, founder of his namesake auto group, died Friday at his Duluth, Ga., home, just weeks after his son Jimmy Ellis, the company’s CEO, died, the Ellis family said. Jim Ellis was 90. No cause of death was shared. All Jim Ellis Automotive locations will close […]
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Robert “Bob” Lockwood Button, a high school teacher who shaped lives and trained generations of print and broadcast journalists, died Dec. 23. Button, 81, died of pneumonia at Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia, with his wife and two adult children by his side. He had a lung infection related to steroid treatment for a skin […]
Editor’s note: The author covered Mercedes-Benz as an Automotive News reporter in New York starting in 1988 and worked for the company from 2003 to 2006. Leo Levine, the former head of public relations for Mercedes-Benz of North America who epitomized and zealously defended the brand in the U.S. for […]