Graveyard thieves choose tombstone over flowers
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Cypriot police are looking for graveyard thieves who did not settle for their normal booty of flowers and went for the tombstone instead.
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SINGAPORE - Card games are a common pastime at traditional Chinese funerals, but criminals are reportedly paying off grieving relatives to run their gambling operations at wakes.
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Environmentally friendly flowers are a hard sell. After all, most people don't eat them.
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The odds are against this trio.
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There's a new kind of theft growing in popularity -- be careful!
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The body of a man killed in a shootout during a clandestine horse race last weekend was stolen from its freshly dug grave in Mexico's Gulf coast state of Veracruz, an official said Wednesday.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.  The looters and would-be thieves seemed to rise up out of the dark as in Night of the Living Dead. That&#39;s how Holiday Inn owner John Zaccari remembers the first harrowing ...
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By CHRIS YOUNG OUTDOORS EDITOR  A tulip tree that towers over Oakland Cemetery near Ann Rutledge's grave in Petersburg is due for some preventive maintenance.
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Weeds sometimes hide fertile fields of growth.
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By Story by RICK NATHANSON Illustration by CATHRYN CUNNINGHAM Of the Journal  At the beginning of the summer, people were facing tough choices about which plants they might be willing to let die during what seemed like a dry cycle with no end.
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By Fabian Andres Cambero CARACAS, Venezuela  - As the setting sun castslong shadows over a Caracas cemetery, crime-weary Venezuelanspray at the tomb of the notorious thief Ismael, believing heand other dead gangsters can protect them against violentattacks and robberies.
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CAPE CORAL, Fla. - A man's vehicle was vandalized and his father's ashes were dumped in his front lawn, authorities said.  Wayne C. Carraway, 35, said he believed a robber broke into his 1987 Ford Bronco and thought a cedar box with a plastic bag full of his father's ashes contained drugs.
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Saguaro National Park managers are trying to eliminate exotic plants that are threatening to crowd out native vegetation in the Sonoran Desert.
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Despite scams over the years, many lower-income people see holding burial insurance as a point of pride, as well as security.
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By Bill Modisett, Odessa American, Texas  Jun. 26--Ector County commissioners said Monday that letters sent to residents living near The Odessa Cemetery went out earlier than planned and no one is being forced out of their home.
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MEMBERS of a church are to debate the ethics of running raffles and tombolas at church fetes.   Some members of the United Reformed Church in Kelvedon, Essex, think that encouraging gambling sends out the wrong message.  (c) 2007 Evening Mail; Birmingham (UK).
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By Dusty Ricketts, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Feb. 24--DESTIN -- City Manager Greg Kisela has been cleared of any wrongdoing associated with the sale of 14 cemetery plots to a friend.