Slidell, LA - Almost two years after Hurricane Katrina, dozens of damaged graves and tombs at Porter's Cemetery east of Slidell serve as silent reminders of the hurricane's force and fury. Burial vaults, which were carried hundreds of yards from the family cemetery by Katrina's storm surge, line the front of the graveyard awaiting a return to their original locations. Tombs are cracked and destroyed, exposing caskets. Headstones and grave markers are in disarray.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- An heir of Romania's former royal family put "Dracula's Castle" in Transylvania up for sale Monday, hoping to secure a buyer who will respect "the property and its history," a U.S.-based investment company said. The Bran Castle, perched on a cliff near Brasov in mountainous central Romania, is a top tourist attraction because of its ties to Prince Vlad the Impaler, the warlord whose cruelty inspired Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, "Dracula."

NEW YORK (AP) -- Hank Medress, whose vocals with the doo-wop group the Tokens helped propel their irrepressible single "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" to the top of the charts and who produced hits with other groups, has died of lung cancer. He was 68.

Before Secret Service agents guarded the president, they chased counterfeiters. Their assignment did not formally shift until 1894, when a handful of agents served as Grover Cleveland's bodyguards. But there is an earlier example of the Secret Service getting involved in presidential security, albeit briefly, and in a posthumous kind of way.

NEW YORK - Hand-written accounts of the Titanic disaster's aftermath go on sale next week, including log entries describing how bodies of passengers who drowned were buried at sea with 23-kg weights attached. A Christie's auction of memorabilia from various ocean liners is expected to draw up to US$1 million ($1.3 million).

FITCHBURG, Mass. — Police say a gravedigger stole body parts -- including a skull and a thigh bone -- from a broken casket at a church cemetery and took them home to make an ashtray."While he was digging a grave, a casket was broken open, so (investigators) believe he took the body parts to make an ashtray and a pipe," Police Lt. Kevin O'Brien told the Sentinel & Enterprise of Fitchburg.