For decades, people who couldn't be identified or who died with no money for their funerals were left for the county to bury. ...more

September 17, 2009

Someday soon, the grass may be greener for people laid to rest in a section of one Lawrence, Kan., cemetery. ...more

May 7, 2009

While making his way through Oak Grove United Methodist Cemetery, Zachary Bryant wore a gray shirt that read ARMY, dark black sunglasses and blue rubber gloves. ...more

April 8, 2009

While making his way through Oak Grove United Methodist Cemetery, Zachary Bryant wore a gray shirt that read ARMY, dark black sunglasses and blue rubber gloves. ...more

April 8, 2009

The evidence of Jesse Sumner's presence in Pasco County is everywhere, from the names of streets to the names of numerous people descended from the Sumners. ...more

February 25, 2009

The evidence of Jesse Sumner's presence in Pasco County is everywhere, from the names of streets to the names of thousands of people descended from him. ...more

February 21, 2009

Diana Owen's front yard may look like a cemetery, but no one will find any coffins buried six feet under. Skeletal inhabitants are seen resting beside the above-ground headstones. One is even being knocked over by an early Thursday breeze. "I'm probably going to have to stake him," Owen said. A self-professed Halloween fan, Owen and her sister, Connie Christensen, were busy transforming the Swallow Avenue home into a land of frights and screams. ...more

October 31, 2008

Here's a way to get into the Halloween spirit (err, spirits) in a ghoulish way. ...more

October 26, 2008

Alyce Walker isn't going to let Mother Nature encroach on what she considers a historical site. ...more

September 14, 2008

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in the Friday night desecration of headstones at a Polk County cemetery. ...more

June 12, 2008