Martha Thayer's brown curls bounce as she nods admiringly at the Primrose, an elegant-looking coffin sitting against the south wall of her classroom. "This is the same kind of casket that Karen ...

With her funeral scheduled Friday, Ni'kyra Cheyenne Dedeaux, a Gulport, Mississippi teenager killed in the Jan. 1 Bourbon Street attack, will be laid to rest in a casket wrapped in purple and pink ...