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  • Emotions running high in cemetery land dispute Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 9:31PMThe grave was dug, the body prepared and the funeral service rehearsed.
  • Rain hampers Indian effort to find bombers Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 6:07PMPolice in Mumbai investigating the trio of bomb blasts that tore through the city on Wednesday were last night pinning their best hopes on CCTV footage recovered from the site of the explosion as they revealed heavy rains may have destroyed much forensic evidence.
  • Antiquities to return to Swat Museum Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 8:59PMTAXILA, July 13: Thousands of antiquities removed from the Swat Buddhist Museum for safety after militants bombed it in 2008 were returned to the museum on Wednesday.
  • Mayor's chief of staff resigning; Commissioners balk on settlement with fired county manager Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 7:01PMMayor's chief of staff resigning; Commissioners balk on settlement with fired county manager
  • Financial records seized in Albany funeral home raid Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 6:03PMThe GBI and the Secretary of State's office have been contacted to assist in the Litman investigation.
  • Ex-director of Illinois cemetary sentenced in burial scheme Saturday, July 9, 2011 @ 5:04PMThe former director of a Chicago-area cemetery where hundreds of graves were dug up and resold has pleaded guilty to several charges involving the desecration of human remains.
  • Burr Oak Cemetery director sentenced to 12 years for 'bogus graves' Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 2:49PMA former director of Burr Oak Cemetery was sentenced to 12 years in prison this morning after she pleaded guilty to several charges stemming from "bogus graves" found on the burial grounds in south suburban Alsip.
  • Ex-Burr Oak Cemetery director pleads guilty, gets 12 years Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 2:49PMCarolyn Towns, who for years consoled grieving families as manager of the Burr Oak cemetery, herself wept Friday as she admitted her role in a grave reselling scandal at the historic black burial grounds. Two years to the day after the scandal blew open, Towns, 51, blamed a gambling addiction, told a judge how sorry she was for the families pained by the scheme she oversaw, and accepted a 12 ...
  • Former Burr Oak Cemetery Director Admits To Gruesome Scheme Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 1:35PMThe former director of Burr Oak cemetery has pleaded guilty to charges that she profited from the headline-grabbing scheme that involved digging up human remains from graves for resale, and dumping the remains.
  • To dust we return (but implants live on) Saturday, July 2, 2011 @ 11:20PMCremated flesh vanishes. Bones shrink down to a few pounds of brittle slivers. But metal body implants easily outlast two hours or so of 1,800-degree flame. More funeral homes and crematories are recycling some of these remnants. Last month, Kearney A. Snyder Funeral Home Inc. in Lancaster sent its ...
  • Eternally green Saturday, June 11, 2011 @ 12:54AMMore families are keeping ecological impact in mind for burials Live eco-conscious, die eco-conscious. People who drive hybrid cars, recycle, compost and eat vegetarian are showing increased interest in leaving this world in an equally Earth-friendly way: a green burial. "Baby boomers who define themselves as environmentalists don't want to go out with a final act of pollution," says Joe Sehee ...
  • How changing trends affect the death sector Thursday, June 9, 2011 @ 1:53AMA growing preference for fewer visiting hours, less ornate caskets — or no casket at all — and charitable donations rather than flowers are just a few of the many modern realities that face area funeral home directors and their suppliers. With a practice that’s been changing since the dawn of man, these times happen [...]
  • The ever-changing business of funeral homes Wednesday, June 8, 2011 @ 8:18AMA growing preference for fewer visiting hours, less ornate caskets — or no casket at all — and charitable donations rather than flowers are just a few of the many modern realities that face area funeral home directors and their suppliers. With a practice that’s been changing since the dawn of man, these times happen [...]
  • Cemetery tells story of Portsmouth’s past Sunday, May 29, 2011 @ 11:05AMPortsmouth has a long history, spanning nearly two centuries, of honoring veterans by decorating the graves of soldiers. Greenlawn Cemetery stretches across 40 acres amidst Portsmouth’s residenti...
  • Jefferson Barracks finds room for vets Sunday, May 29, 2011 @ 12:29AMExpansions and above-ground vault help rapidly filling burial site, which is final resting place of 183,000 veterans.
  • Buenos Aires crypts full of unusual sights, tales Friday, May 27, 2011 @ 6:43PMThere's no telling whom you'll find in La Recoleta Cemetery. Between the rows of 4,800 aboveground vaults and tombs lie the remains of past presidents and revolutionaries, poets and paupers, a few murderers here and some of their victims over there. From...
  • Save Money By Planning Your Own 'Green' Funeral Friday, May 20, 2011 @ 10:47AMIt's not something many of us want to think about, but planning your own funeral could save your family a lot of money.
  • To do tonight: Watch 'Killing bin Laden'; 'Pirates' opens Friday Thursday, May 19, 2011 @ 5:06PMDaily entertainment update with a movie review of "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," opening Friday, "Killing bin Laden" tonight on Discovery Channel and a recipe for Easy Chicken Enchiladas.
  • Society offering Eaton Rapids cemetery tour Sunday, May 15, 2011 @ 3:03AMEATON RAPIDS - The Eaton Rapids Historical Society is again sponsoring a historical tour of the Eaton Rapids Rosehill Cemetery.
  • Former operator of Hess-Trigard indicted Thursday, May 12, 2011 @ 5:05PMThe former operator of Hess-Ttrigard, Incorporated is indicted on 52 felony counts. More than a dozen grieving families called 12 on Your Side after they paid for monuments...some priced as high as $3,000. The markers were never installed on their loved one's grave.
  • Bishop Names Sts. Peter & Paul Tennessee's First Minor Basilica Thursday, May 12, 2011 @ 12:13PMKNOXVILLE—Bishop Richard F. Stika has announced that Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Chattanooga has been designated a minor basilica by Pope Benedict XVI, as of May 3. The bishop gave the news during a noon Mass at the church on May 12, followed by a press conference. Con-celebrating the Mass were several priests of the Diocese of Knoxville, including Father George Schmidt, who has served as ...
  • Dedication held for cemetery expansion Tuesday, May 10, 2011 @ 5:24PMA crowd of veterans, family members, local officials and Georgia Military College cadets gathered for a dedication ceremony Tuesday for the second expansion phase at the Georgia Veterans Memorial Cemetery. State Sen. Johnny Grant, R-Milledgeville, was the keynote speaker.
  • StoneMor Partners L.P. Announces First Quarter 2011 Results Tuesday, May 10, 2011 @ 5:00AMLEVITTOWN, Pa. -- StoneMor Partners L.P. announced its results of operations and various critical financial measures today for the three months ended March 31, 2011. Measures released include both GAAP measures as provided for in our quarterly financial statements and critical financial measures that we believe are more relevant to our ability to make cash distributions to common unitholders:
  • Ceremony to mark veterans cemetery expansion Monday, May 9, 2011 @ 11:39AMCommissioner Pete Wheeler and the Veterans Service Board of the Georgia Department of Veterans Service will host the dedication Tuesday of the Phase II Expansion of the Georgia Veterans Memorial Cemetery at Milledgeville.
  • Selectmen approve increase in cemetery fee Monday, May 9, 2011 @ 2:59AMBURLINGTON - The Board of Selectmen recently approved a substantial increase in the cost of single-lot burial space in the town’s cemeteries. The selectmen also endorsed an article which would authorize $1.2 million in bonding to finance expansion of the Pine Haven Cemetery.
  • Local Industry News and Notes for May 8 Sunday, May 8, 2011 @ 3:01AMNebo Economic Summit
  • Preserving the art of mortuary science at Lincoln College Sunday, May 8, 2011 @ 2:14AMSOUTHINGTON — It’s a job for the truly dedicated and not for the faint of heart.
  • Memories live on at historic African-American cemetery Saturday, May 7, 2011 @ 8:47PMThe Hollywood Community Cemetery on Simmons Drive and Curtis Avenue in the east side of Orange is a veritable who’s who of African-American history in the city.
  • Flooding still threatens communities despite Missouri levee blasts Wednesday, May 4, 2011 @ 12:00PMBIRDS POINT, MISSOURI : Despite the Ohio River level dropping after the Army Corps. of Engineers breached the Birds Point levee in Mississippi County, Missouri, record-setting levels and flooding are still threatening communities along the river valleys.
  • MO floodwaters could expose graves Wednesday, May 4, 2011 @ 10:19AMImmediately report any sightings to the Coroner's office at McMikle Funeral Home at 573-683-3773.
  • My Dead Mother, the Tree That Never Was: The Psychology of "Green Burial" Practices Wednesday, May 4, 2011 @ 8:17AMMother’s Day is forever tinged with a certain sadness for me because it’s the day I accompanied my mother eleven years ago to the cemetery where she’s been interred ever since. Well, that’s not entirely true. She didn’t die that very day--death wouldn’t come for another six months yet. We were in the funeral home shopping for a shiny new casket and to make final arrangements for her corpse, an ...
  • Mo. floodwaters put halt on funerals, could expose graves Tuesday, May 3, 2011 @ 7:55PMCoroners in both New Madrid and Mississippi counties are keeping a close eye on local cemeteries.  So far there have been no major concerns, but the New Madrid County coroner says in most cases-they can't bury the dead because of flooding issues.
  • Eaton County's safekeepers of family history have an endless job Sunday, May 1, 2011 @ 3:27AMCHARLOTTE - The Eaton County Genealogical Society was born out of necessity.
  • StoneMor Partners L.P. Announces Letter of Intent to Acquire Cemeteries and Funeral Homes Thursday, April 28, 2011 @ 9:00AMLEVITTOWN, Pa. -- StoneMor Partners L.P. announced today that it has entered into letters of intent to acquire nine cemeteries and ten funeral homes for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $10.5 million.
  • Ridgewood funeral homes offering green options Monday, April 25, 2011 @ 10:45AMFuneral directors in Ridgewood are now offering their clients some choices they haven't had before: environmentally friendly ones.
  • Send your loved ones back to nature Sunday, April 24, 2011 @ 8:10PMScattering the ashes of loved ones while preserving their forested resting place is being offered in Canada’s first commemorative conservation ground at O.U.R. Ecovillage.
  • Illinois lawmakers consider softening cemetery law Saturday, April 23, 2011 @ 5:47PMTough cemetery regulations imposed last year after the Burr Oak scandal have proved burdensome for many Illinois cemeteries, leading lawmakers to consider rolling them back. 
  • In search of a greener burial Saturday, April 16, 2011 @ 11:16PMST. JOSEPH, Wis. - Sister Helen Gohres wanted to leave the earth the same way she lived on it. Simply. The earth has nourished me all these years, the Franciscan nun would say. It's my time to return that nourishment.
  • Green burial trend embraces simplicity, environmentalism Saturday, April 16, 2011 @ 10:09PMST. JOSEPH, Wis. - Sister Helen Gohres wanted to leave the earth the same way she lived on it. Simply. The earth has nourished me all these years, the Franciscan nun would say. It's my time to return that nourishment.
  • Penn Hills gives green light to 'green' cemetery Thursday, April 7, 2011 @ 5:50AMPenn Hills soon will be home to Western Pennsylvania's first exclusively "green" cemetery. Council on Monday approved allowing Land Conservation Cemeteries to create a green burial site adjacent to Penn Hills Community Park.
  • Penn Hills developer wins long-fought battle for traffic signal Wednesday, April 6, 2011 @ 11:01PMPenn Hills council gave developer Joseph D'Andrea permission Monday to put up a traffic light at Rodi and Maple Lane, the access road to the Vocollect Inc. electronics center.
  • Missing headstones update Tuesday, April 5, 2011 @ 5:15PMNew information tonight from 12 On Your Side that may put markers on graves for grieving families. They were customers of "Hess-Trigard", a Petersburg company that closed up without delivering tombstones that were ordered. But 12 On Your Side found the monument maker that "Hess-Trigard" hired but never paid.
  • Advocate gets his own green burial in Wake Forest Sunday, April 3, 2011 @ 10:44PMIn life, Dr. Clark Wang was known as a Duke-trained psychiatrist, a gifted cellist, a folk dancer and a hearty carnivore.
  • Zoning change would allow 'natural' burials in Penn Hills Wednesday, March 30, 2011 @ 11:00PMPete McQuillin, chief executive officer of Land Conservation Cemeteries, a for-profit land restoration and cemetery company, applied for a zoning change in Penn Hills that would allow him to open what would be called Penn Forest Natural Burial Park, Western Pennsylvania's first all-"green" cemetery, on a 26-acre plot next to Penn Hills Community Park.
  • Greenville ties helped Southeastern survive Wednesday, March 30, 2011 @ 5:13AMFor 27 years — from 1915 to 1942 — a gigantic illuminated gladiator protected South Main Street. Clasping a spear in one hand and a shield in the other, the emblem of the Southeastern Life Insurance Co.
  • Lyndhurst funeral home has deep roots for three brothers Friday, March 25, 2011 @ 9:31AMIt seems you can never truly leave the business. We’re not talking about the mob here, but about the funeral business. Especially when that funeral business is a family business.
  • Burr Oak cemetery has more dumped bodies: Sheriff Dart Monday, March 21, 2011 @ 1:26PMHuman remains were dumped and “deeply buried” in an unused corner of Burr Oak cemetery in far greater numbers than a 2009 criminal investigation found, the Cook County Sheriff’s office said today, citing the results of an archeological survey conducted last year.A site survey done by Chicago-based Archaeological Research Inc. late last year found human remains buried throughout a corner of the ...
  • More Bodies Found at Burr Oak: Sheriff Monday, March 21, 2011 @ 9:16AMBodies were dumped and "deeply buried" in an unused corner of Burr Oak Cemetery in far greater numbers than a 2009 criminal investigation found, an archaeologists' report has found.
  • More Bodies Found Dumped At Burr Oak Cemetery Monday, March 21, 2011 @ 7:48AMCook County Sheriff Tom Dart said Monday that archeologists have uncovered bodies and bones in an unused section of the historic Burr Oak Cemetery, in far greater numbers than previously believed.
  • 140 years later, skeleton takes on new identity Thursday, March 17, 2011 @ 1:25PMIn 1845, two ill-fated British ships headed for the Canadian Arctic in the hope of discovering the Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean. More than two decades later, the nearly complete skeleton of one of the explorers was recovered from a shallow, stone-covered grave on King William Island in the Canadian Arctic.