Dealing with 23 dead challenges tiny Alabama community

BEAUREGARD, Ala. (AP) — Dealing with the dead became a huge, gut-wrenching task in a rural Alabama community where nearly two dozen people died in a tornado outbreak.
The county coroner set up a temporary command post and performed post-mortem exams in the parking lot of a middle school.
He and a minister then held 17 separate meetings with relatives of the 23 people who died. Pastor Rusty Sowell says the hardest part was just opening a door and looking into the faces of people who feared