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8 min ago | Courier-Post

'My Kingdom for a Hearse' royal burial confirmed

But in real life it looks like the actual King Richard III of England ended up buried under what later became a parking lot, archaeologists have confirmed in a study.

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4 hrs ago | Seattle Times

Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81

Haynes Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who migrated from newspapers to television, books and teaching, died Friday.

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4 hrs ago | KTIV-TV Sioux City

NBC to air Blake Shelton's benefit for Oklahomans

A federal judge has ruled that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically racially profiled Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols.

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7 hrs ago | Click2Houston

Funeral held for 8-year-old tornado victim

Some 300 mourners crowded inside Eagle Heights Baptist Church here Friday to pay their respects to an elementary school student killed when a tornado churned through nearby Moore, Oklahoma.

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7 hrs ago | ABC7 Chicago

Dick Evey, Bears' 1964 first-round draft pick, dies at 72

Dick Evey, a former first-round draft pick who played eight seasons in the NFL, has died at the age of 72.

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7 hrs ago | KTRE-TV Lufkin

No bail for Pa. parents in faith-healing death

After their 2-year-old son died of untreated pneumonia in 2009, faith-healing advocates Herbert and Catherine Schaible promised a judge they would not let another sick child go without medical care.

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8 hrs ago | WTOV9

Teaching kids the meaning of Memorial Day

A bouquet of flowers in a can wrapped in a photo is seen as visitors pause along the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington D.C. President Richard Nixon declared Memorial Day a federal holiday on the last Monday in May.

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12 hrs ago | News Herald

Richard III died in 'violent humiliation,' had unpleasant burial

If you thought being found buried under a parking lot was about as unroyal as it could get for King Richard III, think again.

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16 hrs ago | AdelaideNow...

Three-year-old Kyhesha-Lee Joughin was found dead at her Petrie home over the Easter long weekend

A MAN has been charged with the death of Kyhesha-Lee Joughin, a three-year-old found dead at her Petrie home at Easter this year.

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20 hrs ago | Post and Courier

New documentary features changes to Charleston Fire Department since 2007 Sofa Super Store blaze

A firefighter walks in front of the burning Sofa Super Store in Charleston, S.C., Monday, June 18, 2007.

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Thu May 23, 2013

Examiner.com

Rapper faked own death? Rapper Tim Dog may still be walking the earth today

Did a rapper fake his own death, using the hip-hop media to announce that he died? It looks like this may be the case as rapper Tim Dog was said to have passed away in February but he may still be walking the earth today.

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Advocate-News

Landslide kills two on elementary school field trip

"We are just heartbroken. I prayed all the way here and I will pray all the way home," said Laurie Amos of St.

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Seattle Times

Warrant for rapper Tim Dog, despite death reports

Lack of a death certificate or of a burial site and sparse obituary information led to talk in hip-hop circles that rapper Tim Dog, who owes thousands of dollars to women he was convicted of swindling, faked his own death in February.

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Seattle Times

Snapple co-founder Leonard Marsh dies at 80

The Dr. Pepper Snapple Group Inc. of Plano, Texas, which now owns Snapple, on Thursday confirmed Marsh's death.

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KFVS12

Distraught mom becomes face of Oklahoma storm

A massive tornado was carving its way through town. There was no time to hesitate.

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KFVS12

Teen arrested in death of his 2 brothers in Utah

A teenager was arrested Thursday in the deaths of his two younger brothers, ages 4 and 10, at the family home in a Utah subdivision of new homes and tidy lawns, police said.

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KSDK-TV Saint Louis

Tornado-battered Oklahoma school buries first victim

The tragedy at Plaza Towers Elementary took a new turn Thursday with the the first of seven funeral services for the children killed three days earlier when a massive tornado smashed the school to pieces.

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The York Daily Record

Oklahoma tornado victims astounded at how they survived

Tornado survivors thanked God, sturdy closets and luck in explaining how they lived through the colossal twister that devastated an Oklahoma town and killed 24 people, an astonishingly low toll given the extent of destruction.

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CBS Local

Funeral For Firefighter Killed In Dallas Blaze

A funeral will be held this weekend for a veteran Dallas firefighter who died after being trapped battling a blaze at a condominium complex.

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Patch.com

Blue Mass Honors Police from Bergen County Who Died in the Line of Duty

Police from all over Bergen County celebrated the second annual Blue Mass honoring law enforcement officers who gave their lives in the line of duty at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Ridgewood Wednesday morning.

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