Friday, November 21, 2008

Robert Henreich - Funeral for drowning victim - WLS

Funeral for drowning victim - WLS
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A funeral will be held Friday morning for one of the three Chicago teens who drowned in the Fox River. The service for 16-year-old Adrian Jones will be held at Corbin Colonial Funeral Home. Jones, Melvin Choice, 17; and Jimmie Avant

Plea for more volunteer drivers - Petersfield Herald
A PETERSFIELD community care group, and a lifeline to elderly townsfolk, has launched a desperate appeal for more drivers. Petersfield Voluntary Care Group drives elderly and frail people to hospital or doctors’ appointments. It also takes them to

Charitable giving nationwide is strong, though in New York it has - New York Daily News
As more Americans turn to charity amid worsening economic gloom, operators of food banks and other aid groups are relying on the surprisingly resilient generosity of their neighbors and finding that even when times are tough, people still give

Officer fired after using Taser on teen, firefighter - Charleston Daily Mail
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Kanawha County police officer has been fired after he admitted using a Taser on a pregnant teenager and a firefighter. East Bank Mayor Chuck Blair says Sgt. Steve Smith was fired after the town council learned of the incidents

Fire destroys Riverside Downs barn - Evansville Courier-Press
HENDERSON, Ky. — Flames, wind and chaos enveloped a horse barn at the old Riverside Downs racetrack when Baskett Volunteer Fire Chief Bill Shaw arrived there about 4:40 a.m. Thursday. He was among the first on the scene of the raging fire, but it

All-Black 'Glory' unit from Civil War reactivating - AZCentral.com
BOSTON - An all-Black Civil War infantry unit honored in the Oscar-winning movie Glory with Denzel Washington is making a real-life comeback. The 54th Massachusetts - praised for a doomed charge in South Carolina in 1863 - will become a ceremonial

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