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Longtime Courier Journal reporter Andy Wolfson died Sept. 17 at the age of 70.

Wolfson's work contributed to two Pulitzer Prizes for the newspaper during his 44-year career.

He was known for his relentless investigative reporting, which led to freeing a man from death row.

Andy Wolfson, the long-time legal affairs reporter for The Courier Journal and its defunct sister publication, The Louisville Times, died the evening of Sept. 17 after battling several health issues for the past couple of years. He was 70 years old.

He died at his home in Louisville’s Highlands neighborhood, according to his wife, Mary Welp.

In more than 44 years at the papers, he played key roles in winning two Pulitzer Prizes — the first in 1989 in general news reporting for The Courier Journa

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