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The funeral of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died earlier this month in a Arctic penal colony, will take place on Friday in Moscow after several locations declined to host the service, his spokesperson said. His funeral will be held at a church in Moscow’s southeast Maryino district on Friday afternoon, Kira Yarmysh said […]

DENVER—A former funeral home owner accused of keeping a woman’s corpse in the back of a hearse for two years and hoarding the cremated remains of 35 people has been arrested, authorities said. Thursday night’s arrest of Miles Harford, 33, is the latest allegation of misconduct by Colorado funeral home owners, a string that includes […]

PALM BEACH, Fla.—Former First Lady Melania Trump on Thursday remembered her mother as “a ray of light in the darkest of days” during a funeral service at a church not far from the family’s Mar-a-Lago estate. The former first lady said she always found peace in the presence of her mother, Amalija Knavs, 78, and […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Relatives who knew or feared their loved ones were among the 190 abandoned bodies found decomposing in a Colorado funeral home watched in person for the first time Tuesday as the owners of the business appeared before a judge. Jon and Carie Hallford, owners of Return to Nature Funeral Home, are accused of […]

A funeral service is held for former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, wife of former President Jimmy Carter, at 11:15 a.m. ET on Nov. 29, before a private interment in Plains, Georgia.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The owners of a defunct Colorado funeral home where 190 sets of decomposing human remains were found have been returned to the state to face hundreds of felony charges. Carie Hallford appeared in District Court in Colorado Springs via video on Wednesday. District Judge Samorreyan Burney maintained her bail at $2 million cash […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The owners of a Colorado funeral home were arrested Wednesday in Oklahoma on charges linked to the discovery of 190 sets of decaying remains at one of their facilities, including some that apparently had been languishing there for four years. Investigators entered the Return to Nature Funeral Home building in the Rocky Mountain […]

China’s most high-ranking officials paid their last respects to former Premier Li Keqiang amid swirling rumors of turmoil within the upper echelons of the leadership. Mr. Li died of a sudden heart attack on Oct. 26, after all rescue measures failed, according to an obituary published by the official news agency Xinhua. The sudden passing […]

DENVER—The remains of at least 189 people have been removed from a Colorado funeral home, up from an initial estimate of about 115 when the decaying and improperly stored bodies were discovered two weeks ago, officials said Tuesday. The remains were found by authorities responding to a report of an “abhorrent smell” inside a decrepit […]

CAÑON CITY, Colo.—The awful smell seeped from a neglected building in a small Colorado town for days, followed by a report that made police take a closer look at the “green” funeral operator’s storage facility. Inside, they made a gruesome discovery: At least 115 decaying bodies. Investigators were tight-lipped Friday about exactly what they found […]

LOS ANGELES—In an emotionally charged service, relatives, friends, and colleagues said farewell Oct. 5 to a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who was gunned down in his patrol vehicle near the Palmdale sheriff’s station just days after getting engaged to the love of his life. Ryan Clinkunbroomer, a 30-year-old, fourth-generation deputy, was honored in a […]

At the funeral of a slain Los Angeles Sheriff’s deputy, family, friends, and colleagues shared their fondest memories of the late officer. Starbucks plans to close a few of its San Francisco-based stores. But the coffee chain didn’t spill the beans on reasons for the decision. A Southern California county sues a utility company for […]

QUITO, Ecuador—A 76-year-old woman who had been declared dead and surprised her relatives by knocking on her coffin during her wake earlier this month has died after seven days in intensive care, her family said Saturday. Gilberto Barbera Montoya, the woman’s son, told The Associated Press that doctors at the state hospital where she was […]

A funeral is being held at 10:30 a.m. ET on May 19 for Jordan Neely, a man whose death has been ruled a homicide by the New York City’s medical examiner after being placed in a chokehold by a fellow passenger on the New York City subway. Video coverage includes the exterior and interior views […]

WASHINGTON—One man was killed and three other people were critically injured Tuesday in a shooting outside of a funeral for a homicide victim in the nation’s capital, according to police. Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee said a police officer was stationed near the funeral home in northeast Washington where the service was held when the […]

ST. PAUL, Minn.—Two men were killed and three other people were injured in a second shooting outside gatherings to mourn loved ones in St. Paul this weekend. The St. Paul Police Department said all five people were shot in a parking lot shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday during an altercation after a celebration-of-life event. One […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Police are investigating a shooting Friday near a Kansas City funeral home that left four people injured, one of them critically. The shooting was reported about 11:30 a.m. at the Elite Funeral Chapel in south Kansas City. Police spokeswoman Leslie Foreman said one shooting victim was inside the funeral home, one was in […]