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Florida, the strangest state in America? Yeah, so. Tell us something new. Tableseed.com., an e-mail marketing firm in Madison, Wis., analyzed 2,000 Associated Press "strange news" stories this year, and 169 originated in the Sunshine State.

Few stories are as inspiring and affecting and Baxter's. The "golden chow" rescue dog turned hospice hero spent the last seven years of his life volunteering at San Diego Hospice.

After months of favoring speculative gambits, the momentum of the Asian markets is returning once again to the hands of the long-term investor, says Robert Horrocks of Matthews International Capital Management.

Norma Hooks described laying her sister, Leona Miller, to rest in the Chesapeake Bay as a "wonderful experience." Miller's cremated remains, combined with an environmentally safe cement mixture, were cast as an artificial "memorial" reef and personalized with Miller's "jewelry and knickknacks," said Hooks, 64, a Finksburg resident.

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 12A -- Matthews International CorporMatthews International Announces Earnings for the Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2009 ation today announced earnings for the quarter and fiscal year ended September 30, 2009.

Vanareth Ross, center, and Chantha Ross, left, grieve over their daughter's casket during a funeral service at Rose HIlls in Whittier, Calif.

Matthews International Corp., North Shore, said profit dropped 23 percent to $15.6 million, or 52 cents a share, for the fiscal fourth quarter ended Sept.

Thursday, 12 November 2009 12:46 When 20 or so Hill District residents attended the regularly scheduled Dinwiddie Community Alliance meeting, they expected to hear from Hill House CEO Evan Frazier that construction would soon begin on a grocery and retail center anchored by a Kuhn's market.

Chaz Rough is shown with his iPhone app at his YogaMazing studio. View Larger While Chaz Rough sleeps, someone around the world is buying the iPhone/iPod application created for his YogaMazing brand of yoga lessons.

Pittsburgh-based Fort Street Entertainment is winding up preproduction on its revenge/horror shocker REVENGE IS HER MIDDLE NAME, an ode to the gruesome drive-in flicks of the 1970s.

Staff photo by Bob Hammerstrom Kathleen Dube opened up O'Hairs beauty salon inside the atrium of Palm Square, the former Batesville Casket building in Nashua, Friday, November 6, 2009.

After news of the vandalized grave broke, Paul Chait and his staff at Floral Hills Memory Gardens could hardly keep up with the telephone calls.

The family of Melody Ross announced services for the 16-year-old Wilson High junior will be held Nov.

Cremations increasing, funeral industry squeezed Submitted by SHNS on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 15:19 "The economy has impacted people's willingness to spend on funerals and memorial services, and we see that being translated to lower-priced products being sold," said Joseph Bartolacci, president and CEO of Matthews International.

Carnegie Mellon University's Lucio Soibelman, H. Scott Matthews and Jose M.F. Moura received a three-year $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to identify inexpensive ways to track energy consumption in buildings.

Matthews International Corporation announced that Alvaro Garcia-Tunon was elected to the Company's Board of Directors.

The cost for the average funeral, including cemetery expenses, a memorial service and embalming fees, ranges from about $9,000 to $12,000. But the price of an extraordinary funeral costs considerably more, especially if it includes the Promethean Bronze, the top-of-the-line product from Batesville Casket , the biggest casket company in the world ...

Steven Nicola, chief financial officer of Matthews International Corp., and Joseph Bartolacci, president and CEO, stand with some of the bronze plaques made with their digital technology.

It happened in the normally quiet hamlet of Holtsville on Long Island. Police believe the attacker didn't know his victim, but rather, took advantage of a situation while he was lurking around the neighborhood.

A recent report by Human Rights Watch found an alarming number of Indian cancer and HIV patients are left to suffer without adequate, if any, pain control.