MILLEDGEVILLE -- Martha Tomlin took her last breath on Monday. It was one month before her 88th birthday. In her final days, she was weary and ready to answer heaven’s roll call. Still, she expressed reservations at the prospects of dying at age 87. She told her family that 88 would look more impressive in her obituary.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Since the system isn’t broken, NASCAR officials have no plans to change it -- at least nothing radical. The sport enjoyed one of its most exciting seasons ever last year, culminating with Tony Stewart winning his third Sprint Cup championship in the final race of the season.

PERRY -- As students walk into Tucker Elementary School each day, they pass two signs. One reads “Our Mission: To develop leaders one child at a time,” and the other, “Our Vision: To become a nationally recognized leadership school.”

Georgia has been at the forefront of budget cutting throughout the Great Recession. There is no corner of state government that has not had to take one for the team. Unfortunately, this has also meant that fees paid by taxpayers, offenders and others, that were supposed to go toward a dedicated purpose didn’t make it and were used to prop up other areas of the state budget. The $1 per tire fee that was supposed to be deposited into the Solid Waste Trust Fund didn’t arrive and, over the last decade, $37 million went to other purposes.

A suicide car bomber struck a Shiite funeral procession Friday, killing 33 people as suspected al-Qaida militants stepped up apparent efforts to provoke a counterattack by Shiite militias on Sunnis that could pave the way toward open sectarian warfare now that U.S. troops have left Iraq.

The Museum of London is displaying a coin found by the River Thames that may have been used nearly 2,000 years ago as a "brothel token" in Roman London.