Coffin elevator crushes funeral home worker

"Coffin elevator crushes funeral home worker ASSOCIATED PRESS LINDEN, N.J. - A tragic elevator accident has...

Outraged cops to take on lenient judges

"Outraged cops to take on lenient judges By Andrew Maykuth Inquirer Staff Writers Embattled Philadelphia...

Reporter Tweets 3-Year-Old's Funeral

This is truly a case of microblogging gone very wrong. What were you thinking Berny?"The only people more tragic than Web 2.0 pundits who demand newspaper reporters overshare their every move are the reporters who...

Harrowing Video Backs Afghan Villagers' Claims of Carnage

UPDATE: As the US State Department and Pentagon continue to attempt damage control in the face of mounting evidence of almost a hundred Afghan civilians killed by a C-130 'Specter' Gunship, a grisly eight minute...

We can learn from the French about honor

If you can, before you read this, watch the video.  It is a commemorative ceremony at Les Invalides in Paris.  This occasion honors ten French soldiers killed in Afghanistan as they arrive in France on...

Brothers admit stealing parts from 244 corpses

"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Two brothers who ran a funeral home and crematorium admitted Tuesday that they sold corpses to a company that trafficked stolen body parts, a macabre scheme that left families aghast and unclear about the fate of their loved ones. Louis and...

Cemetery officials illegally exhuming bodies in Hong Kong

China's anti-corruption body announced today that 18 senior cemetery officials in Hong Kong have been caught accepting bribes to prematurely exhume partially decomposed bodies from temporary graves in government-run cemeteries.""ICAC enquiries revealed that the arrested...

NBCs Tim Russert Funeral will be closed to the public.

 NBC Tim Russert Funeral will be closed to the public. According to an unidentified source inside the NBC newsroom in DC.  Tim Russert's funeral is going to be the closed to the Public  The main...

Exclusive: Agony of Scots soldier after best pal who replaced him on mission ...

I remember when I served in Northern Ireland that a soldier requested to take my place on a escort duty and he was killed by an IRA sniper. Thats how the dice roll however my story never reached the news paper. This scottish guy should not blame himself it was the terrorist...

Abandoned ashes stack up at funeral homes

"BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- The abandoned ashes are stacked floor to ceiling in the basement of the Graham, Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, tucked neatly on wooden shelves and tables and in an unused dumbwaiter. ...

Thirteen arrested over Tuscan crematorium scam

This is just so sick.The funeral director and twelve other employees in Tuscany, Italy have been arrested for operating a crematorium scam, where they stored bodies with the corpses of cats and dogs, and burned them...

Isaac Hayes Funeral Set For Aug. 18 in Memphis

The funeral for soul singer Isaac Hayes will be held this coming Monday, August 18th, in Cordova, TN, just outside of Memphis. As NowPublic previously reported, the singer died last Sunday of a stroke, at the age of...

Funeral Planned for Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish

Acclaimed and exiled Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (see his biography on Wikipedia) will be buried in the West Bank on Wednesday. Darwish passed away this past weekend, at the age of 67, due to complications...

Bus Victim Tim McLean Funeral Not Protested

The funeral of bus victim Tim McLean was not protested Saturday by the hateful U.S. church group that was expected to be there. McLean was brutally stabbed and beheaded aboard a Greyhound bus on July 30, 2008 near...

Hate-Church Fanatics Stay Away from Tim McLean Funeral

A wall of 250 people lined the route of the funeral 22 year-old Tim McLean, the Greyhound bus victim to "peacefully" blockade any unwelcome presence, as promised by the Westboro Baptist Church. ...

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