For Chicago, 7 weekend homicides represent progress
He said overall crime in Chicago is down 14%, the lowest since 1963 ... The March shooting death of a 6-month-old baby also captured national headlines. Jonylah Watkins was killed while her father, Jonathan, was changing her diaper in a minivan ...

Suicide bomber kills 29 at Pakistani funeral
PESHAWAR, Pakistan A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of hundreds of mourners attending a funeral in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 29 people. Among the dead was a newly elected lawmaker who may have been the target ...

Pre-Paid Funeral Service Was 'Ponzi-Like Scheme,' Federal Prosecutors Say
From around 1992 to 2008, National Prearranged Services Inc. sold prearranged funeral contracts in states including Missouri, Illinois and Ohio. Customers typically ... "Some state laws require the funeral home or cemetery to place a percentage ...

Ed Koch's tombstone engraved with wrong birth year
Oops! The tombstone for former New York City mayor Ed Koch bears the wrong year of his birth. NBC 4 News reported that the mammoth marker for Koch, who died in February at the age of 88, says the brash and outspoken Democrat was born Dec. 12, 1942.

Bomb at Pakistan funeral kills at least 27
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — More than two dozen people were killed Tuesday when at least one suicide bomber detonated explosives at a funeral packed with prominent local officials in northwestern Pakistan, the latest in a string of gruesome attacks in a country ...

Jason Leffler's girlfriend says driver had insurance
LEFFLER: Driver's death sparks debate in NASCAR MORE: Leffler funeral is Wednesday That was evident long before Leffler's death in an accident at a dirt track in New Jersey last Wednesday ... from his burning car he spoke not of the cut tire ...