A pall-covered vault containing ashes of the deceased awaits burial before an All Souls’ Day rite of committal in 2019 at Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn, Md. (Credit: CNS photo/courtesy Archdiocese ...

Police have confirmed another case involving the theft of columbarium urns, this time at a memorial park in Nilai, Negeri ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to start issuing urns and commemorative plaques to the families of deceased veterans this year, but the move has drawn criticism that it could block those ...

A man convicted of stealing burial urns to recycle the metal has been sentenced.Alan Smith was ordered to spend four to six weeks at River City Correctional Facility, where he will undergo drug ...

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(This story removes stray letters from first paragraph) By Kaori Kaneko YOKOSUKA, Japan (Reuters) - Unclaimed urns containing ashes of the dead are piling up by the thousands across Japan, creating ...

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