Through his civic activism, business ventures and legal work, Percy Sutton touched many people's lives. Complete Story...
The bells of an Italian Renaissance-style church in Montreal chimed softly Saturday as pallbearers carried the gold coffin of the son of the reputed head of Canada's most powerful Mafia family.
Planning to drink and drive this New Year's? A north Georgia funeral home has a deal for you. Between now and noon Thursday, drivers can visit McGuire, Jennings and Miller Funeral Home in Rome to sign a contract stating they plan to drink or take drugs and then drive on New Year's Eve. If they die in a wreck that day, the funeral home will give them a free burial.
Ann Nixon Cooper was remembered Monday as a charismatic woman who, after toiling through the civil rights era, lived to see herself hailed in an election night speech by the nation's first black president.
Brittany Murphy's family says words can't express the devastation they felt as they laid the 32-year-old actress to rest at a private Christmas Eve funeral.
Chris Henry's fiancee wept as she spoke about the late Cincinnati Bengals receiver Tuesday, saying that while she often got credit for helping him stay clear of trouble, he changed her life as well.
Abe Pollin cared so deeply for his Washington Wizards that former coach Wes Unseld remembers him coming into the locker room after victories and giving players a celebratory peck on the cheek.
The funeral for Washington Wizards owner Abe Pollin will be held Friday.
Hundreds of people jammed into a Monrovia church to mourn a Liberian United Nations worker killed in an October attack by Taliban gunmen in Afghanistan's capital.
Hundreds of thousands of people joined a somber funeral procession Thursday for Patriarch Pavle, the leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church through its post-Communist revival and the Balkans' bloody ethnic conflicts in the 1990s.
Friends and relatives of executed D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad have gathered in Louisiana for his funeral.
Hundreds of people who lined the streets of Terre Haute, Ind., for a Veterans Day parade stood silently as a hearse passed by carrying the coffin of a soldier whose return to the country was marked by a salute from President Barack Obama.
Michael Jackson's private family funeral was fit for a king and had a price tag to match: roughly $1 million, according to court documents released Tuesday.
The body of a British nurse who died 30 years ago in Saudi Arabia was cremated Monday after her father gave up his hope for a new investigation in her case.
A slain Catholic nun who lived and worked on the Navajo Indian reservation was remembered Saturday for her passion for the poor at funeral services.
Stationed at a remote, undermanned Army outpost in a dangerous patch of northeastern Afghanistan, Stephan Mace knew trouble was brewing. His father says U.S. military commanders should have known that the troops there "were sitting ducks."
A New York woman who died last week at a sauna-like sweat lodge at an Arizona retreat was remembered by a longtime family friend and retired priest as a spiritual seeker.
For Edgar Allan Poe, 2009 has been a better year than 1849. After dozens of events in several cities to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth, he's about to get the grand funeral that a writer of his stature should have received when he died.
Oklahoma's first Republican governor who is credited with founding the state's modern GOP party is being remembered as a caring visionary.
The funeral of a Chicago teen who was beaten to death on his way home from school drew civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan on Saturday, both calling for an end to youth violence.
Civil rights Jesse Jackson and Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan are attending the funeral of a Chicago teen beaten to death on his way home from school.
Civil rights leaders, including NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous, are expected to attend the funeral of a 16-year-old Chicago teen whose beating death was captured on camera.
A federal appeals court on Thursday tossed out a $5 million verdict against protesters who carried signs with inflammatory messages like "Thank God for dead soldiers" outside the Maryland funeral of a U.S. Marine killed in Iraq.
Funeral plans are being finalized in California for a Yale graduate student found dead in her lab building on what would have been her wedding day.
Former President Bill Clinton described Melvin Simon as one of the most remarkable people he's ever met as he gave a eulogy Friday during the funeral for the billionaire shopping mall developer and Indiana Pacers co-owner.
"This is just a sad tragedy," plaintiffs attorney Richard Valle said Wednesday. "This almost feels like something you'd read about in a Stephen King book."
Thousands of people in Pakistan have attended funerals in the city of Karachi, a day after a suicide bomb that claimed the lives of 43 people. Firefighters are still extinguishing flames following rioting after the attack on a Shia Muslim march.
Further clashes have taken place in the Iranian capital Tehran, following anti-government protests in which at least four people died. Reports say police fired tear gas to disperse crowds of demonstrators in various parts of the city overnight.
Tens of thousands of Iranian opposition supporters are in the holy city of Qom for the funeral of the dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri. Opposition leaders have called for a huge turnout. Riot police are deployed.
Hours before he died on June 10, while he was lying unconscious in bed, Denton Cooper was remarried to his second wife. Now, three daughters by his first wife want a judge to declare the marriage to Izetta Johnson void and remove her as the administrator of his estate.
A body is placed inside a vault-like tube (after being wrapped in a silk bag, which is nice) and the chamber is then sealed, filled with water and lye, and steam-heated to 300 degrees.
Calvert County authorities are searching for two men who tried to rob a funeral home that they may have mistaken for a bank. Police said the men robbed Lee Funeral Home, next to a PNC Bank, in Owings on Monday. Lt.
Airlines flying only full flights these days is creating a predicament for overweight travelers. A 400-pound San Jose man found out buying a last-minute second seat isn't as easy as it used to be.
11/18/2009 - WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- The leaves are changing color at Arlington National Cemetery; a bright backdrop for something as sobering as a funeral. An Army chaplain in his dress blue uniform presents a folded flag to the fallen's next of kin, a man in his 60s.
An urn containing the ashes of a decorated Korean War veteran has been stolen from a van the soldier's family rented to attend his burial at Arlington National Cemetery.
It's hard to always be ecologically correct - especially when you're dead.
RIO DE JANEIRO – A Brazilian bricklayer reportedly killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family by showing up alive at his funeral.
A Brazilian bricklayer reportedly killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family by showing up alive at his funeral.
TAIPEI - THE eulogies, the songs, the crying and the hugging all made David Tseng's funeral virtually indistinguishable from any other such rite in Taiwan - except that he is still alive.
The world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, now plans to hold on to customers even after they die - by selling coffins. Prices range from a "Mom" or "Dad Remembered" steel coffin for $895 (£540), to a bronze model at $2,899.
One week after 7-year-old Somer Thompson disappeared while walking home from school, her mother, extended family and an entire community prepares for a public tribute and farewell.
Police stopped a hearse on its way to a funeral so they could commandeer the body of Stuart Smith, who was about to be cremated.
For Edgar Allan Poe, 2009 has been a better year than 1849. After dozens of events in several cities to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth, he's about to get the grand funeral that a writer of his stature should have received when he died.
A family from Skåne in southern Sweden has demanded compensation from the Church of Sweden claiming that the pastor employed to conduct a funeral had consumed a glass too many in the vestry.
CHESTER, NY -- They waited in the rain for Jeremiah Monroe to come home. The Brant Lake native was killed Sept. 17 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle. The Afghanistan War has come to my home town.
MERCED, Calif. -- As Jesse Armenta grieves for his father, he's also trying to get over shocking reports of his own death. Jesse's photo had been mistakenly used for his father Jesus' obituary in the pages in the Merced Sun-Star, in the pamphlet at the funeral, and on the casket.
Forsyth County law enforcement is pleading with the community for answers in a July murder. On July 15 detectives found Dwight Sluder, 48, dead from a gunshot.
It was a promise neither man would have wanted to keep. Yesterday the funeral of a Black Watch soldier killed in Afghanistan took a bizarre turn when his best friend arrived in a bright green dress and pink leg warmers to honour a pact that the two of them had made.
An Indianapolis mother is pleading for help from the public to track down a woman who stole money that was intended for her terminally ill baby's funeral.
IDUPULAPAYA (CUDDAPA): Some were hysterical, some teary-eyed and some sombre. Thousands of people converged at the Idupulapaya Estate in Y S Rajasekhara Reddy's hometown on Friday to bid the man who had touched them in one way or the other farewell.