Marine and firefighter, killed in Afghanistan, is mourned

NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. Marine killed in a roadside bombing in Afghanistan is being honored by mourners from across the country at his funeral in New York City, where he also was a decorated firefighter.
The flag-draped casket of Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Christopher Slutman was taken Friday from a Bronx funeral home atop a fire engine caisson.
Thousands of firefighters, police and other responders lined both sides of Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue for about a mile as the caisson passed slowl