Funerals

U.S. allowed to help (Rocky Mountain News)

12 May 2008

The United States launched its first relief airlift to Myanmar today, after prolonged negotiations with the isolated country's military rulers, who have been accused of restricting international efforts to help as many as 1.5 million cyclone survivors at risk of disease and starvation.

6 from Michigan killed in Pa. crash (Detroit News)

12 May 2008

The group of young Indian couples from Farmington Hills was going to a Niagara Falls vacation when their van crossed a highway median, rolled, and was struck by another car.

Newsmakers (Winston-Salem Journal)

11 May 2008

â–  Former President Jimmy Carter often sent his mother to meet with foreign dignitaries and attend state funerals, but it wasn't until he started researching a new book about her life that he learned just what the woman known as "Miss Lillian" did on those visits. "Mama had developed a reputation for expressing unorthodox opinions and not being constrained by any outside advice," Carter writes in ...