Authorities in Ohio are looking for thieves who broke into a home while the family of a 2-year-old was at a funeral home preparing for the boy's services.
Sheriff's deputies said a Texas woman started a brawl at a wake in Arkansas when she arrived with a beer can in her hand. The woman, 52, faces a third-degree domestic battery charges, as does another woman, 46, over the March 29 fight. Deputies said the first woman arrived at the Christies Chapel Church with a beer can in hand and that she refused to leave.
A parolee has been ordered to stand trial on charges of stabbing two men at a funeral wake for a man poisoned by moonshine.
A "very brazen" drive-by shooting at a weekend wake that killed two people and wounded eight others was apparently gang retaliation for a slaying at a wedding two years ago, police said Monday.
A Puerto Rican man has been granted his wish to remain standing — even in death. A funeral home used a special embalming treatment to keep the corpse of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina standing upright for his three-day wake.
Murat Dryaev, a dark-haired 29-year-old from this impoverished village in southern Russia, was one of hundreds of volunteers who rushed to the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia last week to fight Georgian troops.
A rare bird's-eye look at Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta shows the devastation still left from Cyclone Nargis — broken levies, flooded farm roads, the shattered remains of bamboo huts and trees strewn like matchsticks along the coast.
Thousands of friends, colleagues and strangers joined President Bush and his wife, Laura, in paying respects on Tuesday to Tim Russert.
Tyler Hansbrough had 29 points to help keep third-ranked North Carolina atop the Atlantic Coast Conference with an 89-73 win over Wake Forest on Sunday night.
Photo Journal of former President Cory's wake and burial.
[Manila, Philippines] Former President Joseph Estrada and members of his Cabinet on Sunday night showed up at the La Salle Greenhills gymnasium in full force to pay their last respects to the late Corazon Aquino.
In the Home of the Brave when will America recognize President George W. Bush for his courage? It was only a few years ago that most pundits and even the "Iraq Study Group" suggested a different course in Iraq when our country was the most vulnerable in the Middle East?
The editor of this paper is a workhorse, one flanked by almost only home and office.
Maria Marcelo Ejercito, mother of former [Philippine President] Joseph Estrada, died yesterday at the age of 103.
Back in the locker room a vote is taken after the game was complete, and a unanimous decision is made by this young team to skip this flight and stay one more day. They make arrangements to check back in the hotel and on a frozen Sunday morning charter two buses that have no he …
BALLWIN, Mo., Nov. 2 (UPI) -- A Missouri family says the toughest part about the wrong body being brought to their father's wake was getting the funeral home staff to believe them.
As a registered Democrat, I am very scared of my party's candidate for President. It worries me about his tax plan. Does anyone know what the actual number is? We have different politicians saying $250,000 then there is $150,000 now there is $120,000.
I keep hearing the news media and some people in general proclaiming how wonderful it would be if Obama choose Hillary for his vice president. And I think it is incredibly naive and downright borderline stupid.
Doctors treating the daughter of the incest offender Josef Fritzl have initiated the wake-up phase to revive her from an artificially induced coma.
An 81-year old man in the small Chilean village of Angol shocked his grieving relatives by waking up in his coffin at his own wake, local media said on Sunday.
A woman who has been in a coma for the past six years is slowly coming back to life after being given sleeping pills. Amy Pickard, from Hastings in East Sussex, was only 17 when she slipped into a coma in 2001.
Wake Up Call by Maroon 5, Music Video and Lyrics
How do we wake up How do we shift from restful sleep to dreaming Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have discovered a new brain mechanism that just might explain how we do that.
An experiment aimed at finding ways to help astronauts adapt to life on Mars could end up helping insomniacs on Earth, researchers said on Monday.
While reading recently about the increasing trend toward social networking sites serving as a virtual space for sharing grief and wishes of sympathy when a loved one passes, it occurred to me that Newsvine might be able to make use of such a site.
A 16-year-old student and his mother have sued the Wake County Board of Education after he was suspended for having sex during school hours at his girlfriend's house. The suit, filed last week in Wake Superior Court by Ryan Biggar and his mother, Patricia, says school officials
THE ancient traditions of the Irish wake and funeral are under threat from Brussels, the Republic's governing Fianna Fail party has said.
I've always wanted one of these but they're pretty costly. This product improves on others that I've seen by separating the alarm from the wrist band. That way if your arm is underneath your pillow, the alarm can still wake you up. Anyone want to lend me $250?