Penny mourners to gather in DC for the discontinued cent's funeral

The penny was discontinued by the US Treasury earlier this year because they cost more to make than they're worth.

'Nothing makes cents anymore' | How to pay your respects to the penny at a funeral this weekend

When it was introduced in 1793, a penny could buy a biscuit, a candle or a piece of candy. Now most of them are cast aside to ...
KETV Omaha

Lincoln woman believed to be dead, breathing at a funeral home and is still alive, officials say

IT WAS PERHAPS THE SHOCK OF A LIFETIME AT A LINCOLN FUNERAL HOME TODAY, AFTER THEY DISCOVER SOMEONE WHO’D BEEN DECLARED DEAD HOURS EARLIER. LYONS. IVAN NEWSWATCH AARON IS IN THE NEWSROOM WITH MORE ON ...
Columbus Dispatch

Replica of Lincoln funeral-train engine to stop at Statehouse

Nearly 149 years after Abraham Lincoln’s death, the president’s appeal to the public imagination remains undiminished. Next year, on the 150th anniversary of the assassination, a re-enactment of his ...
The Saratogian

Events to mark 150th anniversary of Lincoln funeral train

ALBANY >> The 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train – which took the slain president’s remains on a slow journey from Washington to Springfield, Ill. – comes to New York this weekend, ...
WBAL-TV

B&O Museum commemorates Lincoln's funeral

The year 2015 marks 150 years since President Abraham Lincoln's assassination and Baltimore played a role in such a historically significant event.Mobile users tap here for videoThe anniversary was ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana

Hammond stop slated for Lincoln funeral train

The funeral train of President Abraham Lincoln rests under a decorative archway at the Monon Station in Michigan City on May 1, 1865. Along with several major cities, Michigan City was one of the ...
The Pantagraph

Long train running: Lincoln funeral journey inspires concert

BLOOMINGTON — When the Lincoln funeral train passed through Bloomington at 5 a.m. May 3, 1865, "the depot was handsomely dressed in mourning, and about 5,000 persons were assembled to testify their ...
YDR

Lincoln's funeral train stopped in New Freedom, York

The Great Emancipator's foul assassin still roamed the countryside as Abraham Lincoln's funeral train chugged its way somberly toward York. Mortally wounded a week before on Good Friday, Lincoln was ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana

Lincoln funeral train reforged in the fires of history

Editor's note: A version of this article was originally published in The State Journal-Register in Springfield, Ill., on Feb. 14, detailing the process used by an Elgin, Ill., team to replicate the ...
1011 Now

Woman found still alive at Lincoln funeral home dies hours later

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office said a woman who’d been pronounced dead and later came back to life in a Lincoln funeral home has died. Constance Glantz, 74, was ...