A public viewing will be held starting at 2 p.m. for Scranton Police Patrolman John Wilding who was killed in the line of duty – watch news reports here: http://wnep.com/2015/07/16/public-viewing-for-fallen-scranton-officer/
Officer Wilding’s funeral will be Friday at 10 a.m. at St. Peter’s Cathedral in Scranton. You can watch the ceremony live on, WNEP-2 and on wnep.com.
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) — The sounds of high-performance car engines filled the air Sunday as thousands of fans, friends and car enthusiasts headed to the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita to pay tribute to Paul Walker at the site where the “Fast & Furious” actor died in a car crash.
The memorial, planned through social media, was scheduled to begin at noon, but mourners began arriving hours beforehand to leave flowers, candles, stuffed animals and other tributes.
By afternoon, about 5,000 people, including entire families with children, dropped by, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Capt. Mike Parker said, adding that the gathering was mostly peaceful. A man was arrested after deputies spotted him carrying a partially hidden, loaded gun, and 40 citations were issued for illegal parking, Parker said.
Many arrived in cars built for speed, and the sounds of engines revving echoed close to where Walker and his friend died on Nov. 30. The event concluded Sunday evening with a cruise through the area 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
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HERSHEY, PA – Douglas Yeboah first met George Leader about eight years ago while working as a chaplain at the state prison in Chester.
Leader had sponsored a program at the prison to provide guidance and mentors to inmates, giving them a second chance. He believed in second chances and he believed in helping people in prison, people others had discarded or forgotten.
Not long after that, Yeboah retired from the prison system and moved back to his native Ghana. He kept in touch with Leader and the former governor would often ask about Yeboah’s work. The work, he always told him, was hard. There was so much need in Ghana, so much pain and suffering. Yeboah told him that children lacked medical care and that many of their maladies were preventable, if only they had access to clean drinking water.
Leader asked what he could do and in a short time, a drilling rig to dig wells for clean water was on its way to Ghana. Yeboah mentioned to Leader that he hoped one day to build a children’s hospital, but it was out of his reach. Leader told him he could do it, he could make it happen.
Read more: http://www.ydr.com/local/ci_23259461/gov-george-leader-laid-rest
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BOSTON – A funeral home director was scrambling to find a cemetery that would bury a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, ignoring protesters gathered outside his business and saying everybody deserves a dignified burial service no matter the circumstances of his or her death.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died from “gunshot wounds of torso and extremities” and blunt trauma to his head and torso, said Worcester funeral home owner Peter Stefan, who has Tsarnaev’s body and on Friday read details from his death certificate. The certificate lists the time of his death as 1:35 a.m. on April 19, four days after the deadly bombing, Stefan said.
Tsarnaev died after a gunfight with authorities who had launched a massive manhunt for him and his brother, ethnic Chechens from Russia who came to the United States about a decade ago. Police have said he ran out of ammunition before his younger brother dragged his body under a vehicle while fleeing.
Tsarnaev’s family was making arrangements Friday for his funeral as investigators searched the woods near a college attended by 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was captured less than a day after his brother’s death.
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STATE COLLEGE, PA — Former Penn State coach Joe Paterno will be buried Wednesday, and his family has scheduled three days of public memorial events this week.
Paterno died Sunday at age 85, less than three months after being diagnosed with lung cancer.
Click here for schedule: http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/01/joe_paternos_funeral_scheduled.html
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Elizabeth Taylor was as famous for her off-screen antics as she was for the movies she starred in. Taylor, once one of Hollywood’s biggest stars and sex symbols, led a tumultuous life filled with many marriages, divorces and a myriad of health problems and surgeries which eventually left her wheelchair bound.
Taylor made over 50 movies and received countless awards and honors for her films and charity work. She exemplified the golden age of Hollywood and was a bona fide movie star. She lived her life in the public eye, which at times worked in her favor and other times made her the butt of jokes and the object of much ridicule and hate. She was once even chastised by the Vatican for her off-screen escapades with Richard Burton.
Elizabeth Taylor died yesterday of congestive heart failure at the age of 79. She is survived by four children, ten grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. A private family funeral is planned for later this week.
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