Nancy Reagan buried near her husband
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. – Close friends and family remembered Nancy Reagan as more than a first lady Friday, recalling at her funeral service how she and husband Ronald Reagan made up “two halves of a circle,” with a love for one another that inspired everyone they crossed paths with.
Inseparable in life, the pair were to be reunited in death in side-by-side graves at the Reagan’s presidential library.
During a service filled with poignant and often humorous memories, each speaker came back to the couple’s love story.
“When they were together, he hid love notes around the house for her to find,” said Reagan’s former chief of staff, James Baker. “She reciprocated by secreting little notes in jellybeans in his suitcase.
Photo of hanging at restaurant under fire
ROSEVILLE, Minn. – The Minneapolis NAACP has demanded an apology from Joe’s Crab Shack after diners at a restaurant in a St. Paul suburb complained that their table was embedded with a photo depicting the hanging of a black man in Texas in 1895.
The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports that the diners were waiting for their meals at the Roseville restaurant Wednesday when they noticed the photo, including a cartoon bubble coming from the hanged man’s head reading: “All I said was, ‘I don’t like the gumbo!”’
Parent company Ignite Restaurant Group issued an apology and removed the table.
Louisiana black bear no longer in danger
NEW ORLEANS – The Louisiana black bear, the animal behind the “teddy’s bear” inspired by President Theodore Roosevelt, has rebounded enough to pull it off the list of federally protected species, the government says.
U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell heralded the “recovery of a species” Thursday, though groups that have worked for decades to protect the bears disagreed or had doubts.
The black bear, which once roamed Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana, is now found in two parts of eastern Louisiana and in one place along the coast.
Associated Press
