Is it now okay to publish photos of the draped coffins of our dead sons and daughters killed defending freedom around the world? Yes. Parents must give consent before the photos are allowed, however those caskets represent much more than the dead sons and daughters of those parents giving their consent. ...more

April 10, 2009

The Obama administration is reversing an 18-year ban on news coverage of the return of war dead, allowing photographs of flag-covered caskets when families of the fallen troops agree, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday. ...more

February 27, 2009

The Obama administration is reversing an 18-year ban on news coverage of the return of war dead, allowing photographs of flag-covered caskets when families of the fallen troops agree, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday. ...more

February 26, 2009

Fountain Funeral Home held an open house when it opened in December 1973, and the Avon Park business will be doing the same thing on Nov. 29 - nearly 35 years later. ...more

November 16, 2008

Joe Johnson craned his neck from the airboat as it circled a patch of brown marsh grass. The runaway coffin was not where it was supposed to be. ...more

October 26, 2008

as Homeland Security has repeatedly warned us they will - how many survivors will be consoled because the Supreme Court and the State Department looked out for the "rights" of terrorists before the rights of their dead loved ones? ...more

June 19, 2008

It's called the Ecopod. It sounds like a rare crustacean or an environmentally safe work cubicle. In fact, it's a kayak-shaped coffin - made of recycled newspaper. ...more

December 28, 2007

Cynthia Beal wants to be an Oregon cherry tree after she dies. She has everything to make it happen - a body, a burial site and a biodegradable coffin. ...more

December 28, 2007

No one said it would be easy. No one ever says that around South Florida men's basketball, season after season, coach after coach. ...more

November 10, 2007

The arm. Every Stan Heath story has to begin with the arm. ...more

November 4, 2007