Longtime Fox News personality Alan Colmes dies at 66

Fox News' Alan Colmes dead at 66.
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Longtime Fox News broadcaster Alan Colmes passed away Thursday morning at the age of 66. His family said in a statement that he had been battling a "brief illness."

Colmes was a fixture on Fox News Channel and for over a decade served as the co-host of Hannity & Colmes alongside Fox host Sean Hannity, serving as Hannity's liberal counterpart. In a statement Thursday, Hannity called Colmes "one of life's most decent, kind, and wonderful people." Colmes' family remembered the longtime political commentator as "a great guy, brilliant, hysterical, and moral."

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Kimberly Alters

Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.