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Cemetery commission says rapper's family cannot inscribe headstone with swear wordsLYNN, Mass. - Commissioners at a Massachusetts cemetery have said no to profanity on headstones.
Mystery of Abraham Lincoln's Funeral Train Solved by ChemistBefore President Abraham Lincoln was laid to rest, a train carried his body on a two-week funeral procession across the Northern U.S. states in 1865. Mourners from New York to Illinois gathered to see the train and pay their final respects, but despite drawing millions of spectators, one detail of the much-publicized event was thought to have been lost to history: The color of the president's ...
Funeral director: Tough to find cemetery that will bury Boston bombing suspectBOSTON — A funeral home director was scrambling to find a cemetery that would bury a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, ignoring protesters gathered outside his business and saying everybody deserves a dignified burial service no matter the circumstances of his or her death.
Funeral director: No cemetery will take TsarnaevThe Massachusetts funeral director who is trying to find a cemetery to accept Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body says an autopsy shows the suspected Boston Marathon bomber died of bullet wounds suffered during a shootout with police and blunt-force injuries when he was run over by a car driven by his fleeing brother, according to media reports Saturday.
Abraham Lincoln's funeral train: A mystery is solvedBy Denise ChowLiveScienceBefore President Abraham Lincoln was laid to rest, a train carried his body on a two-week funeral procession across the Northern U.S. states in 1865. Mourners from New York to Illinois gathered to see the train and pay their final respects, but despite drawing millions of spectators, one detail of the much-publicized event was thought to have been lost to history: The ...
Cemetery: No profanity on rapper's headstoneCommissioners at a Massachusetts cemetery have said no to profanity on headstones.Sonny Santiago, 23, was a rapper who died in a car crash in February. Commissioners at Pine Grove Cemetery in Lynn this week unanimously rejected...