Owner of Funeral Home With Nearly 200 Decaying Bodies Admits to Fraud

Prosecutors say the couple who ran the funeral home cheated customers of cremation services and spent the money on vacations and jewelry.

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Class and Identity in Hilton Head: The Gullah v. Wealthy Landowners

A legal fight over access to burial grounds has pitted the Gullah Geechee against wealthy landowners around Hilton Head Island.

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Excavation of Children’s Remains Begins at Irish Home for Unwed Mothers

Experts are searching for the remains of hundreds of children who died at the institution run by Catholic nuns until 1961, including bodies disposed of in septic tanks.

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The Man Who Made Green-Wood Cemetery a Brooklyn Destination

Richard J. Moylan has overseen a transformation of Green-Wood Cemetery in his nearly 40 years as president. Now he’s ready to retire.

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Goodbye, City Hall. Hello, Green-Wood Cemetery.

Meera Joshi, former deputy mayor for Eric Adams, is taking a new job with the famous Brooklyn burial ground.

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Long-Lost Bust of Jim Morrison Is Recovered in Paris

The 300-pound bust was stolen from Père-Lachaise cemetery in 1988 and was found when the police were conducting an unrelated search.

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Arlington Cemetery Website Loses Pages on Black Soldiers, Women in Military and Civil War

The cemetery, which is operated by the Army, said it was working to restore the content. Among the obscured pages was material about civil rights.

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Why Did QR Codes Appear on About 1,000 Graves in Munich?

The mystery has bewildered city workers and set off a police investigation.

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When Grave Markers Are Stolen, He Speaks for the Dead

To Michael Hirsch, the desecration of hundreds of graves was a shanda, a shame, a ghoulish crime. He wanted to do something about it.

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‘Days of Mass Burials Ahead’ as Congo Mourns Its Dead in Goma

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the Central African country in decades.

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