Along Britton Road in Rochester, New York, a brick gatehouse sits across from ordinary homes. Beyond it lies Britton Road Cemetery, its grounds divided into family plots and sections claimed over time ...

Spouses qualify for burial with the veteran even if the spouse remarried after the veteran's death. That detail surprises many people. A surviving spouse who remarries doesn't lose eligibility for ...

These are my brothers, I’m not going to let this go. Whether this ends in our favor or not we’re not backing down on this. We ...

The Cape Town families whose loved ones were buried in paupers’ graves without their consent wanted answers. Just one problem: the City of Cape Town didn’t seem all that keen to supply them.

Brothers Timothy and Ryan Geschke were laid to rest at Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs after dying in 2020 and 2021 respectively.

“It’s still a place where the city goes to tap into its identity, particularly on Joe Cain Day,” said architectural and maritime historian John Sledge. “It doesn’t have the magnificent statuary of ...

A group of Chippewa Falls High School students are working to bring a Purple Heart, to the family of a local fallen soldier and closure to a fellow cardinal from ...

Carnal Sins is bringing sexy back. The Denver goths bill themselves as “sexy graveyard rock,” and go six feet deep with it.

We would receive them as they came trundling down the sanctuary’s driveway in the funeral home minivan, we would haul their limp weight from gurneys onto our burial cart, we would wrap them in sheets ...

If you told me a decade ago that I'd become an expert in mapping cemeteries, I would've laughed and been very confused about ...

Authorities moved to suppress shows of defiance at ceremonies commemorating 40 days since the death of protesters.

From Harriet Tubman's home in Auburn to the Freedom Crossing Monument in Lewiston, these sites preserve the region's crucial role in the fight against slavery.