Tri-State Mourns Music Icon Whitney Houston

Ronald Peace, of Newark, leaves a personal message to Whitney Houston at New Hope Baptist Church, in Newark, N.J., Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. The 48-year-old pop star was found dead in the bathtub in her hotel room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, hours before she was supposed to appear at a pre-Grammy gala. Houston's funeral will be held at the church on Saturday. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)

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Tri-State Mourns Music Icon Whitney Houston

From the famed Apollo theater to a century-old church in Newark, tri-state residents paid their respects to the late pop star.

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