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No charges to be filed in illegal dumping

Tampa police now have a clearer picture on how the cremated remains of a decorated World War II veteran and his wife wound up dumped behind a vacant Tampa college. ...more

December 17, 2009

Finally, a resting place

Sixty-five years after Delbert E. Hahn laid his life on the line near the small French town of Caumont, ducking German machine gun fire and artillery, the former Iowa farmer whose cremated remains were found in a Tampa trash heap last month was laid to rest Wednesday in a hallowed place. ...more

December 17, 2009

Recovered ashes of vet to be buried

The cremated remains of a decorated World War II veteran and his wife will be interred Wednesday at Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell, nearly three weeks after they were found at an illegal dump site. ...more

December 15, 2009

Police to probe dumping at site where veteran's remains found

Police will investigate illegal dumping at a site where the cremated remains of a decorated World War II veteran were found. ...more

December 2, 2009

Plant City soldier remembered as 'a wonderful young man'

To Tom Norton, the father-in-law to Spec. Eric N. Lembke, a soldier killed in Afghanistan Oct. 23, the visitation service at Plant City's First Baptist Church on Friday was sadly reminiscent of his daughter's wedding with Lembke in 2003. ...more

November 7, 2009

Hero comes home

Mashelle Lembke stood on a runway at MacDill Air Force Base with family, friends and service members Thursday afternoon, waiting to accompany her husband's body to the city in which he was raised. Plant City soldier Eric Lembke was killed Oct. 23 in Afghanistan. ...more

November 6, 2009

Family mourns as fallen soldier comes home

Friends and family are remembering the life and mourning the death of Army Spec. Eric Lembke, who died while on duty in Afghanistan Oct. 23. ...more

November 4, 2009

Slain soldier coming home

A funeral service for Army Spc. Eric Lembke, who died Oct. 23 while on duty in Afghanistan, is scheduled for 10 a.m. Nov. 7, at Plant City's First Baptist Church, a church official said. ...more

October 29, 2009