ALSIP, Ill. (AP) - Authorities say more than a dozen more cases of disturbed graves have turned up at a historic black cemetery in Illinois where four people are accused of unearthing hundreds of corpses in a scheme to resell ...Read More
Fewer than 300 family members visited scandal-plagued Burr Oak Cemetery as it finally reopened after four months Thursday -- far fewer than the thousands authorities had prepared for. Clutching computer printouts detailing the locations of their loved ones' graves, a slow ...Read More
ALSIP, Ill. -A Chicago-area cemetery that was shut down after four former workers were accused of digging up graves in a scheme to resell burial plots is open again. Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip reopened Thursday morning. People boarded a bus ...Read More
CHICAGO -- An FBI file released to a New York media outlet shows the agency kept watch on the late Chicago author Studs Terkel for decades. It also shows that Terkel once applied for a job with the FBI but was ...Read More
ATLANTA -- Turnout appeared light but steady Tuesday as voters here headed to the polls in a mayoral election that could determine whether the cradle of the Civil Rights Movement has its first white mayor in nearly 40 years.
Recent polls ...Read More
LOS ANGELES—An immigration lawyer and two associates have been charged with obtaining fraudulent work visas for immigrants and laundering the money by purchasing cemetery plots, authorities said Friday. "Cemetery plots are certainly a novel way to attempt to launder the proceeds ...Read More
WASHINGTON—Slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers will be honored Friday with a Navy supply ship named for him.
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, a former governor of Mississippi, planned to announce the honor during a speech at Jackson State University in Jackson, ...Read More
Gandhi’s birthday, or Gandhi Jayanti, is celebrated every year as the International Day of Non-Violence. The Mahatma, who was born on 2 October 1869, would have turned 140 this year. Mr Obama said: "Gandhi's teachings and ideals, shared with Martin Luther ...Read More
ATLANTA -- A follower of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is invoking the spirit of the civil rights icon and his wife, Coretta, in praying for a peaceful resolution to the legal battle among the King children. The Rev. Joseph ...Read More
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The Navy and families of three sailors killed in a 1946 plane crash in Antarctica are clashing over whether to bring the men home. Petty Officer 1st Class Fred Williams, Ensign Maxwell Lopez and Petty Officer 1st ...Read More
Travers remained politically active after the band split in the 1970s Mary Travers - a member of the hugely popular 1960s US folk group Peter, Paul and Mary - has died aged 72. The band's publicist said Mary - who had ...Read More
They're back? Sneed hears the company that owns Burr Oak cemetery is poised to take back control of the beleaguered graveyard today because of bankruptcy rules. That means Roman Szabelski, the Catholic Cemeteries executive director put in charge of Burr Oak ...Read More
Jimmy Stewart, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Walt Disney. These and others among Hollywood's all-time A-listers are now Michael Jackson's neighbors for eternity. When he was laid to rest Thursday in the Great Mausoleum in the Forest Lawn Cemetery ...Read More
GLENDALE — Paris Jackson wept as she stepped into the mausoleum where her father, Michael, was to be entombed. Katherine Jackson, overcome by sorrow, turned back when she was faced with her son's final resting place. On a sultry Thursday evening, ...Read More
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Michael Jackson's family and about 200 of their closest friends gathered on a hill Thursday evening for their final farewell to the pop singer, who died 10 weeks ago. Jackson's burial may lay to rest some ...Read More
GLENDALE, Calif.—Paris Jackson wept as she stepped into the mausoleum where her father, Michael, was to be entombed. Katherine Jackson, overcome by sorrow, turned back when she was faced with her son's final resting place. On a sultry Thursday evening, amid ...Read More
They came for an intimate ceremony for a superstar: Lisa Marie Presley, Elizabeth Taylor, Macaulay Culkin, Chris Tucker and Mila Kunis arrived at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Calif., on Thursday for the funeral for Michael Jackson. As night fell, ...Read More
More than two months after Michael Jackson's death, the singer will finally be buried on Thursday (September 3) at the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California. But unlike the star-studded public memorial held in July, the final goodbye to the ...Read More
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Seventy days after his sudden death, Michael Jackson will be interred in what may or may not be his final resting place Thursday evening. Only his family and closest friends will attend the private funeral inside ...Read More
