| Grace Gardens funeral home sold to Texas firm May 04, 2013 |
| Higginbotham Funeral Homes of Texas has bought Grace Gardens Funeral Home & Crematorium, 8220 Woodway Drive, which was the only facility in the Waco area to have an on-site crematorium when Bert Vandiver opened it in 2009. The historic company, which has ... (Waco Tribune-Herald) |
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| Police launch criminal investigation into Waco fertilizer plant explosion May 10, 2013 |
| The deadly explosion ripped through the fertilizer plant late last month, injuring more than 100 people, leveling dozens of homes and damaging other buildings including a school and nursing home, authorities said. WACO, Texas — Texas law enforcement ... (New York Daily News) |
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| Texas Explosion Criminal Investigation Launched By Law Enforcement Officials May 10, 2013 |
| WACO, Texas — Texas law enforcement officials on Friday launched a criminal investigation into the massive fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 people last month, after weeks of largely treating the blast as an industrial accident. (The Huffington Post) |
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| Bostonians Protest Funeral Home Burying Boston Bomber May 04, 2013 |
| (KCEN) -- A funeral home director is scrambling to find a cemetery that will bury the remains of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Graham, Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlor in Worcester, Massachusetts has the remains. Protesters gathered ... (KCENtv.com) |
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| Death Notices May 09, 2013 |
| Head Duarte Funeral Home. Lyna Faye Horton, 89, of Waco died May 8, 2013. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Friday, May 10, 2013, in the Peace Chapel at Trinity Memorial Park. Nalley-Pickle and Welch Funeral Home. Cerola Lewis, 59, of Lubbock died ... (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal) |
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| Texas launches criminal probe into plant explosion May 10, 2013 |
| WACO, Texas (AP) — Texas law enforcement officials on Friday launched ... said he was arrested after McLennan County deputies were called earlier this week to a home in Abbott, a town about five miles from West, and found bomb-making materials ... (Associated Press) |
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| Texas authorities launch criminal probe into plant explosion May 10, 2013 |
| Texas Department of Public Safety said earlier Friday that the agency had instructed the Texas Rangers and the sheriff's department to conduct a criminal probe into the explosion. The agencies will join the State Fire Marshall's Office and the Bureau of ... (New York Post) |
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| Criminal probe launched in Waco explosion May 10, 2013 |
| WACO, Texas — Texas ... has severely impacted the community of West, and we want to ensure that no stone goes unturned and that all the facts related to this incident are uncovered,” DPS Director Steven McCraw said. McLennan County Sheriff Parnell ... (Daily Hampshire Gazette) |
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| Texas EMT to plead not guilty in fertilizer plant explosion case May 11, 2013 |
| WACO, TEXAS — A lawyer for a Texas paramedic arrested on charges of possessing bomb-making material says his client will plead not guilty and had no connection to the fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 people last month. Waco attorney Jonathan ... (Detroit Free Press) |
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| Shirley A. Prestin May 10, 2013 |
| Prestin, of Killeen, will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery in Killeen with Darrell Phillips officiating. Visitation is from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday at Dossman Funeral Home in Belton, which is in charge of arrangements. (Killeen Daily Herald) |