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More on ex-Mayor Bob Lanier's collapse yesterday at Ken Lay's memorial service: The Chronicle reports that Lanier's defibrillator likely saved his life. Mayorbob's heart apparently developed an erratic rhythm as he and Elyse approached their seats at First Methodist Church, which caused the defibrillator implanted in his chest to shock his heart, which in turn might have caused him to collapse (it's not clear whether the irregular heartbeat or the shock did it).

More than a thousand of Ken Lay's friends and associates and local dignitaries attended Ken Lay's second memorial service yesterday at First Methodist Church downtown, remembering the human side of the former Enron chief. Among the speakers at the service was the Rev. Bill Lawson, who officiated at Lay's first memorial Sunday in Aspen, Colo. On Monday, Lawson compared Lay with John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesus; yesterday, he paralleled Lay and...

Bob Lanier was attending Ken Lay's private memorial service at First Methodist Church downtown when he collapsed this morning around 11 a.m., KHOU reports. The ex-mayor, 80, was rushed to the hospital after being administered oxygen by paramedics at the scene.

Ex-Enron chairman Ken Lay's funeral arrangements have been made, but the state of his legal affairs remains up in the air — at least for now.