Louisiana flooding sends caskets far and wide

NEW ORLEANS - Widespread flooding not only disrupts the living but sometimes also creates havoc for the dead.
That's what happened in southwest Louisiana's Calcasieu Parish when an overflowing Sabine River - helped by days of heavy rain - recently pushed water inland about four miles, disturbing graves buried in at least four cemeteries in the towns of Vinton and Starks.
The parish Coroner's Office last month completed the recovery of caskets and vaults or lids that floated from their resting pl