PARIS (AP) � Plans are underway to reinter the remains of American-born singer and dancer Josephine Baker at the Pantheon monument in Paris. The late entertainer who is a World War II hero in France will be the first Black woman to get the country’s highest honor. Le Parisien newspaper reported Sunday that French President

(CNN) � The government’s COVID-19 funeral assistance program has distributed more than $1 Billion. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) says it has helped some 150,000 people since April. The government reimburses up to $9,000 for each COVID-19 victim. It covers transferring remains, burial plots, caskets, clergy services, cremation and headstones. FEMA says it still

JACKSON COUNTY (WSIL) � Residents are upset over the condition of a cemetery that the owner says was caused by years of heavy rain and an outdated drainage system.

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WSIL — News 3 This Morning co-anchor Evie Allen has a friend who is from New Zealand. LJ Walters now lives in Australia and is visiting southern Illinois. We asked her about the attacks and the attitude toward guns in her native country.