5 Things You Need to Know Today: April 13

Our weekday morning column, 5 Things You Need to Know, provides you with information that can help you plan your day and give you some fodder for water cooler conversations.

1. It's Friday, the 13th, so if you're superstitious, don't walk under a ladder, cross a black cat or go to the 13th floor of a building. I don't usually believe in superstitions, but I do usually throw salt over my shoulder if I spill it. What are your superstitions?

2. . Some agree and others think that it is disrespectful to impeach the president since they say there is no cause.

3. . The woman stole $7,500 and was caught on camera.

4. . Dress is casual and the family is asking people to dress in their favorite sports' team shirt. The family is asking for donations in his memory to be made to the Athletic Booster Association, 64 Holden St., Shrewsbury, MA 01545.

5. This weekend marks the 100th anniversary of the Titanic sinking. Shrewsbury was honored to have the last living, American survivor Lillian Gertrud Asplund, who was 5 when the Titanic set sail, according to the New York Times. She was 99 when she died in 2006. She was born in Worcester and moved back to Shrewsbury in 1951 with her family. She held secretarial jobs in the Worcester area. Her father and three of her four brothers, including her fraternal twin brother, died in the sinking.

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