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Michelle Obama's father not buried at cemetery after all

First lady Michelle Obama's father is not buried in the Chicago-area cemetery where investigators say hundreds of graves have been dug up in a scheme to resell the burial plots, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Cemetery with missing grave sites declared crime scene

A Cook County cemetery where hundreds of graves were dug up and allegedly resold has been declared a crime scene, meaning that relatives of people believed buried there will not be allowed to visit for several days, an official said Friday.

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4 charged with digging up graves, reselling plots

Four people face felony charges after authorities discovered that hundreds of graves were dug up and allegedly resold at a historic African-American cemetery near Chicago, Illinois, authorities said Thursday.

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Relive events that paved Obama's way to the White House

The world will be watching as Barack Obama is sworn in as president of the United States of America. In anticipation of the inauguration, reporter John Zarrella, photojournalists Dominic Swann and Greg Kilday and I traveled to some of the landmark sites of the civil rights movement to reflect on events that helped shape this historic moment.

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Exhumation planned in 50-year-old racial killing

The FBI plans to exhume for autopsy the body of Emmett Till -- the 14-year-old black teen who was kidnapped and mutilated about 50 years ago in an infamous case that was one of the sparks of the civil rights movement.

Lawmakers want 1955 Mississippi murder reopened

A Brooklyn filmmaker says he has new evidence he believes could reopen the 1955 murder case of Emmett Till -- a 14-year-old African-American whose violent murder helped trigger the U.S. civil-rights movement of the late 1950s.

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