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The burial of Terri Schiavo's cremated remains didn't bring an end to the acrimony between her husband and her family. Michael Schiavo angered his late wife's family Monday by not notifying them about the burial beforehand and by inscribing on her bronze grave marker the words "I kept my promise." Michael Schiavo _ who said he promised his wife he would not keep her alive artificially _ also listed Feb. 25, 1990, as the date his wife "Departed this Earth." On that date, Schiavo collapsed and fell into what most doctors said was an irreversible vegetative state. Schiavo actually died...

GrassrootsPA has just learned that the controversial plaque honoring a professor who killed her baby was taken down from Villanova's Falvey library. "It sounds like it was officially removed, but there has been no official statement from the school," said Jeanne Marie Hoffman, the Villanova senior who lead the charge against the plaque. "I looked at the spot where it was in the library and it wasn't there. I was glad to see that the school rethought its erroneous decision to put it there in the first place." GrassrootsPA is awaiting official word from the school on whether the plaque...

Sometimes you just make an exception. And this is one of those times. Last Saturday a bunch of cops hiked a mountain and left behind a reminder of their dead buddy. It was a little plaque, about a foot square. They climbed the highest peak in Utah and got off the trail a ways and on the side of a boulder, where no one would ever see, they calked the plaque in place. It was dedicated to their SWAT buddy, a Marine reservist, a man who went to war to take care of his troops. A man who died in...

<p>SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- A judge ordered Elkhart County to remove a Ten Commandments display that hangs along historical documents in the Elkhart County administration building in Goshen.</p> <p>U.S. District Judge Robert L. Miller Jr. ordered the display's removal in a judgment filed Monday, saying the Constitution forbids a government to post the Ten Commandments in a government building.</p>

Approval Given for Dedication of the Vietnam War in Memory Plaque at the Wall 3/30/2004 1:40:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: Assignment Desk, Daybooks Contact: Mokie Porter of Vietnam Veterans of America, 301-585-4000, ext. 146 News Advisory: Vietnam Veterans of America will host the official dedication on November 10, 2004, of the In Memory Memorial Plaque at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. The plaque will recognize the sacrifices of those who returned home from the Vietnam War only to die later as a direct result of their service in that conflict. The dedication candlelight ceremony, which will be open to...

A new and emerging understanding of how heart attacks occur indicates that increasingly popular aggressive treatments may be doing little or nothing to prevent them. The artery-opening methods, like bypass surgery and stents, the widely used wire cages that hold plaque against an artery wall, can alleviate crushing chest pain. Stents can also rescue someone in the midst of a heart attack by destroying an obstruction and holding the closed artery open. But the new model of heart disease shows that the vast majority of heart attacks do not originate with obstructions that narrow arteries. Instead, recent and continuing studies...

Lowering cholesterol far below the level that most doctors now consider adequate can substantially reduce patients' risk of having or dying from a heart attack, researchers reported today. The findings, cardiologists say, will greatly change how doctors treat patients with heart disease and will provide the impetus to re-evaluate how low cholesterol levels should be. The study compared high doses of one of the most powerful cholesterol-lowering drugs, Pfizer's Lipitor, to a less potent drug, Pravachol, made by Bristol-Myers Squibb, which conducted the trial. The patients taking Lipitor were significantly less likely to have heart attacks or to require bypass...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Gov. Bob Riley opened an exhibit at the Capitol on Tuesday that included a small plaque of the Ten Commandments, keeping a promise to supporters of a massive granite monument removed by court order from the state judicial building. The plaque was given to Riley by supporters of the 2 1/2-ton Ten Commandments monument. "Just as the Ten Commandments are exhibited in similar displays in the U.S. Supreme Court and in our nation's Capitol building, I feel it is important to display them in our Capitol, as well," the Republican said in a statement. Riley and Alabama's...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals court refused to reconsider a ruling that allowed a decades-old Ten Commandments plaque to remain on the facade of a suburban courthouse. A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel had ruled in June that the 1920 plaque did not constitute an official endorsement of religion and could remain because county commissioners who wanted to keep it were motivated by historic preservation. The full court on Wednesday unanimously refused to reconsider that ruling. The case was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union in Philadelphia on behalf of Sally Flynn,...

Article Published July 28, 2003 Plaque a deserved thank-you token for pilot Story by Mike Peters Sitting at home now, 60 years later, he can still hear the noises: the flak bursts around the plane, the muffled explosions of the bombs below, the sighs of relief and expressions of joy of returning to base safely. This was Rhoten Smith's world in 1943. It was World War II. A movie was made several years ago about these men and what they did. "Memphis Belle" was the name of the movie and the B-17 that survived. It told the story of the...