WDEF-TV 12 anchor John Mercer died Tuesday night at Erlanger after fighting a "heart-related condition" for about six days. Mercer came to the station in 2003.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Rev. John E. Mercer, 65, parochial vicar of Our Lady of Pity R.C. Church, Bulls Head, died Monday night in the rectory of heart failure. Born in Mount Kisco, N.Y., to ...