| More heartbreak for Ledger dad
The New York Daily News said the family had chosen a handmade coffin named The Concord, which is considered one of the finest wooden caskets on the market. "It's a very, very beautiful casket - really special, really fancy," the paper quoted a family source as saying. Funeral plans have remained shrouded in secrecy, but the Bowra & O'Dea funeral home in the Perth suburb of Midland is believed to be handling the arrangements. The century-old funeral home is just a couple of miles away from Guildford Grammar, where Ledger went to school in the '90s and where his funeral service is expected to take place later this week. The actor's uncle Mike Ledger said the family was still finalising plans but they were considering holding a private wake at the grammar school. Employees at Bowra & O'Dea were tight-lipped yesterday.
Time for Chicken Little? Astrophysicist Says Maybe
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LandAmerica to Replace Documents at No Charge and Offer a Discount on ...
RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: LFG) , Fortune magazine's number one Most Admired Company in the mortgage services industry, announces that it will replace recorded mortgage documents, property tax information, recorded deeds, and tax assessor maps at no charge for homeowners who lost their homes in the recent fires in Southern California. "Among LandAmerica's Guiding Principles are Teamwork and Responsible Corporate Citizenship. We are grateful for the brave team of volunteers and firefighters who fought these horrific blazes, and we offer our help to property owners who are recovering from the fires' destruction," said Margaret Foster, LandAmerica's Executive Vice President for the West Region. LandAmerica is also offering California fire victims loan policies at 50 percent of its basic insurance rate to repair or replace property damaged by the fires.
Sunrise Mall sold to south state firm
Jennie Bennett, left, and Lucille Fellembaum talk on Tuesday at Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights, where they go several times a week to exercise and chat with friends. The pair met about eight years ago at the mall, which was built in 1972. Autumn Cruz / acruz@sacbee.com .
Dallas billionaire Ray Hunt has quietly shaped his hometown
Wouldn't it be convenient to reinvent himself far from Dallas, where people didn't know the complicated and sometimes painful history of the Hunt family? As a wealthy young man and natural leader, Mr. Hunt could have scaled the social and political rungs of any city. But even as a 22-year-old SMU grad, that was not Mr. Hunt's style. "A lot of people feel they have to move to a more exciting city or affiliate with dynamic people, and Ray turns around and creates a dynamic city and becomes a dynamic person," said his sister, Helen LaKelly Hunt, an author and philanthropist who left Dallas as a young adult. "He just looks at what is around him and transforms what is right in his orbit." Over four decades, Mr. Hunt has helped remake Dallas from an estranged American outpost to a cosmopolitan city at the crossroads of commercial and political life.
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