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‘Heavy but grateful heart’ on Memorial Day


Remembering Our Fallen Soldiers This Memorial DayFriends and family remember those who gave all to serve their nation.




Obama to visit Oklahoma, tour Jersey Shore


A battered sign stands outside the wreckage of Plaza Towers Elementary School, where seven children were killed earlier in the week when a tornado hit Moore, Okla., Thursday, May 23, 2013. Cleanup continues three days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening a wide swath of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)The president will visit the tornado-ravaged area this weekend; then head to N.J. on Tuesday.




Jersey shore opens for summer fun


New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, right, talks to Carla Pilla, of Seaside Heights, N.J., while Robert Hilton, left, executive director of the Jersey Shore Convention and Visitor's Bureau, holds a sign, Friday, May 24, 2013, in Seaside Heights, N.J. Christie cut a ribbon to symbolically reopen the state's shore for the summer season, seven months after being devastated by Superstorm Sandy. Several beach communities have annual beach ribbon cuttings, announcing they are back in business. But this year's ceremonies are more poignant seven months after a storm that did an estimated $37 billion of damage in the state. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)Gov. Chris Christie and the cast of MTV's "Jersey Shore" welcome tourists back.




Four girls killed in a civil rights-era church bombing honored


Obama signs a bill designating the Congressional Gold Medal commemorating lives of four young girls killed in 1963 bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church bombing of Birmingham, Alabama, in WashingtonPresident Obama signs a law giving the highest civilian honor for the victims of the 1963 attack.




Illinois judge charged with heroin, gun possession


This October 2010 photo shows St. Clair County Circuit Judge Michael Cook during his swearing in ceremony in Belleville, Ill. Cook is under federal investigation after a former prosecutor and colleague, Joe Christ, who was found dead at Cook's cabin in rural Pike County, Ill. in March 2013 succumbed to a cocaine overdose. Cook as booted from his docket of hundreds of cases Thursday, May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Belleville News-Democrat, Derik Holtmann)Michael Cook, wearing cutoffs and a "Bad is my middle name" T-shirt, pleads not guilty.