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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Fans can pay their respects to B.B. King in Las Vegas before he is laid to rest in Mississippi. King's website says a public viewing will take place in Las Vegas on Friday. The mortuary's manager says King will be in an open casket and there will be no memorial service...

The Yakima Fire Department will hold a remembrance this morning for those who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks 13 years ago in New York City, Washington, D.C., and in the plane that crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.

Associated Press-there's a growing memorial to the slain Powell boys at the elementary school they attended in Puyallup. Dozens of people gathered at Carson elementary to place candles, stuffed animals, balloons and messages out front...

The Sunnyside Fire Department and Yakima County Fire District #5 will be honoring the life of retired Fire Chief James Stanton at a memorial service on Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 10:00 am. The funeral service will be held at the Grace Brethren Church located on the corner of Franklin Avenue and 7th Street in Sunnyside...

The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington D.C., has officially opened to the public. The memorial will be formally dedicated on Aug. 28 — the anniversary of his 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech — and will cap a five-day celebration that could draw as many as 250,000 people.