North Dakota newspaper columnist whose Olive Garden review went viral dies at 99

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Marilyn Hagerty, a North Dakota newspaper columnist whose earnest review of her local Olive Garden restaurant became a social media sensation, died Tuesday. She was 99.

Hagerty died at a hospital in Grand Forks of complications related to a stroke she had suffered, her daughter Gail Hagerty said. She was always a journalist at heart who took the effort to get to know people and the community, her daughter said.