Recent HeadlinesBen Jones, good ol’ boy ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ actor and 2-term US House member, dies at 84 Ben Jones, who played the good ol' boy mechanic in "The Dukes of Hazzard" TV series and parlayed his fame into a political career and two terms in the U.S. House, has died. Blink-182’s Travis Barker almost died. A new documentary celebrates his life before and after The inferno rages onscreen three minutes into " Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear." Dashcam footage lifted from a police car shows the blaze: It's 2008, and Barker has survived a plane crash in South Carolina. Four others did not.