Michelle Obama’s father NOT buried in troubled cemetery (Updated)

" First lady Michelle Obama’s father was buried in the Chicago-area cemetery where investigators say hundreds of graves were dug up in a scheme to resell the burial plots, a spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday. It...

The Arlington Wreath Project - Random Acts of Kindness Spread Across the Nation

In this time of financial need and turmoil for the United States, one of those random acts has prevailed for 17 years. It started in Maine and is still spreading across America. Is this what the first President...

Nazi hate attack: Jewish cemetery vandalised with pig's head.

Pictures of a shocking Nazi hate attack on a Jewish cemetery in the town of Gotha have horrified Germany, reports BILD.com. A bloody pig’s head was found stuck to the middle of a Star of David on the graveyard gate at 5.30am yesterday. A sheet next to it, smeared with...

Pam Ward Discovers More Dead Bodies Buried Under LA Unified

Pam Ward Discovers More Dead Bodies at LA UnifiedOpinion. While at the post office at Washington and La Brea, I spoke with a reliable source which shared the recent finding of more dead bodies buried under Los...

A Grave Matter

I wanted to post the story first, before I filed my own report from today's events. This would have been a plain "local" story,  but by virtue of the fact that it involves the nation's oldest African American...

Cemetery officials illegally exhuming bodies in Hong Kong

China's anti-corruption body announced today that 18 senior cemetery officials in Hong Kong have been caught accepting bribes to prematurely exhume partially decomposed bodies from temporary graves in government-run cemeteries.""ICAC enquiries revealed that the arrested...

Abandoned ashes stack up at funeral homes

"BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- The abandoned ashes are stacked floor to ceiling in the basement of the Graham, Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, tucked neatly on wooden shelves and tables and in an unused dumbwaiter. ...

2,000 Skeletons Found in Ancient Berlin Churchyard

" Archaelogists have made a grisly, fascinating discovery in central Berlin -- a giant medieval graveyard containing 2,000 corpses, many of them children.Archaelogists in Berlin have uncovered 2,000 skeletons in a huge medieval cemetery near the city center since they...

Arlington cementary and Iraq casualties media coverage dispute

Media coverage of Iraq casualty is not easy business. Now, Arlington Cementary adds its own tone to the dispute over such press freedom..to no avail. " Arlington Cemetery at Center of Controversy Over Media...

Hamburg fans stay eternally loyal with soccer cemetery

There are soccer fans. There are crazy soccer fans. And then there are soccer fans devoted enough to their team that they wish to be burried in a stadium-side grave at a cost of €2,500 (blue and white coloured...

Man sees bear in St. Charles Borromeo Church cemetery - Southeast Louisiana

"By John DeSantis / The Daily Comet RACELAND -- In nine years as groundskeeper at St. Charles Borromeo Church, Kyle Schexnaydre has seen coyotes, deer and lots of other wildlife lurking nearby. A week ago Friday...

Bury Lenin, Says Gorbachev

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Grobachev has stated that the body of Vladimir Lenin should be finally committed to the earth. Currently Lenin's embalmed corpse is encased in glass and on display in a mausoleum in...

Disney makes an appearance at the World Science Festival

Disney gave an impressive show at the World Science Festival today, talking about all the science that goes into Disney magic."And there was science — physics, chemistry, biology, computer science and...

Stonehenge 'a long-term cemetery'

Stonehenge may have served as a burial ground for much longer that has been previously suggested, according to new research conducted by the University of Sheffield."The site was used as a cemetery for 500 years,...

War Dead Identified

"The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of four U.S. servicemen, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and will be returned to their families for burial with full military...

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