Clarence Williams III, who played the cool undercover cop Linc Hayes on the counterculture series “The Mod Squad” and Prince’s father in “Purple Rain,” has died. He was 81. Williams died Friday at his ...

Clarence Williams spent a lifetime at WRAL-TV, starting at the station as a high school trainee in 1966. After a stint in the Army in the early 1970s, Williams returned, and worked for another 45 ...