Jim Nabors

(Newser) - Jim Nabors, the shy Alabaman whose down-home comedy made him a TV star as Gomer Pyle and whose surprisingly operatic voice kept him a favorite in Las Vegas and other showplaces, died Thursday. He was 87. Nabors, who underwent a liver transplant in 1994 after contracting hepatitis B, died peacefully...

(Newser) - Jim Nabors, star of 1960s sitcom Gomer Pyle, USMC, has married his longtime male partner in Washington state. "I'm 82 and he's in his 60s and so we've been together for 38 years and I'm not ashamed of people knowing," Nabors tells Hawaii News...