Wilson said the man was identified as 35-year-old Carlos Owens of Bristol. He was unable to get out of the chimney and had to be freed by crews with the Bristol Fire Department, according to Wilson.

Wilson said the man was identified as 35-year-old Carlos Owens of Bristol. He was unable to get out of the chimney and had to be freed by crews with the Bristol Fire Department, according to Wilson.

Lynn Hamilton, who played Redd Foxx's girlfriend Donna on "Sandford and Son" and Miss Verdie on "The Waltons," died Thursday of natural causes at her home in Chicago. She was 95.

The influential show, which aired on NBC, also starred Demond Wilson and LaWanda Page. Hamilton also portrayed Verdie on the CBS drama "The Waltons," beginning in 1973.

Hamilton first appeared on NBC’s Sanford and Son on its seventh episode in February 1972, playing a landlady who gives Demond Wilson’s Lamont Sanford a hard time after he gets his own bachelor ...

Hamilton rose to fame for her portrayal of Sanford's girlfriend, Donna Harris, and also had roles on "Gunsmoke," "Roots: The New Generation," and "The Golden Girls." ...

Take, for example, the bickering duo from the classic TV sitcom, Sanford & Son, in which the cantankerous Fred Sanford (Red Foxx) and his more conscientious son, Lamont (Demond Wilson), run a junk ...

Hamilton first appeared on NBC’s Sanford and Son on its seventh episode in February 1972, playing a landlady who gives Demond Wilson’s Lamont Sanford a hard time after he gets his own bachelor ...

A predominantly Black sitcom, it starred Mr. Foxx as Fred Sanford, a cantankerous and wholly unfiltered Los Angeles junk man, and Demond Wilson as Lamont, his sensible, long-suffering son.

Hamilton’s first appearance on “Sandford and Son” was in 1972 when she played a landlady who chastised Demond Wilson’s Lamont Sanford after he argued with his father, Fred Sanford, and then got his ...

Though Donna and Fred got engaged, they never walked down the aisle — much to the delight of Fred’s son Lamont (Demond Wilson), who famously called her “The Barracuda.” ...