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Ohio Says Funeral Home Can't Use Liquid Cremation

By Mara GayMar 23rd 2011 – 12:06PM
Courtesy Jeff Edwards

Courtesy Jeff Edwards

An Ohio funeral home director who used lye and high temperatures to liquefy bodies has been ordered to stop the unusual practice, which authorities say is not approved under state law. For two months now, Jeff Edwards, the funeral director at Edwards Funeral Service in Columbus, has been disposing of bodies using alkaline...

Brother, Sister Die in Crash on Way to Stepmother's Funeral

By Lisa HolewaJan 22nd 2011 – 2:15PM
CNN

CNN

Chester Mills was supposed to bury his wife in Indiana earlier this week. But while two of his children were driving from Georgia to attend their stepmother's funeral, their car spun out on a snowy highway and was broadsided by an oncoming tractor-trailer. The crash killed them and a friend who was driving the car. Now...

Mourners Recall Sarge Shriver's Charity, Idealism

Jan 22nd 2011 – 10:28AM
Cliff Owen, AP

Cliff Owen, AP

POTOMAC, Md. -- R. Sargent Shriver was always an optimist, pioneering the Peace Corps and running the War on Poverty during the turbulent 1960s - an idealist even as the running mate on a Democratic presidential ticket doomed for failure. At his funeral Mass on Saturday, mourners from philanthropist and musician Bono to...

Arizona Buries Shooting Victim Who Died Shielding Wife

By Lauren FrayerJan 17th 2011 – 6:23AM
AP

AP

Mavanell "Mavy" Stoddard was surprised to find love again late in life. After her husband died, she moved back to her hometown of Tucson and rekindled a romance with her high school sweetheart. But now she finds herself a widow twice over. Her new husband, Dorwan Stoddard, was one of the six people killed more than a week...

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