Family is everything to Tito Bastianelli, 87. A devoted Catholic — father to seven, grandfather to 18 and great-grandfather to 16 — Bastianelli frequently visits his deceased relatives’ graves at St.

Dozens of brass rings that attach flower vases to mausoleum crypts were stolen from a Sonoma cemetery, in what officials said was the latest act of vandalism to occur at the site. About 40 brass rings ...

Within the next few years, crypts for caskets and urns may start popping up in the Ridgelawn Cemetery. The town, which owns the approximately 85,000 square foot cemetery on Warren Street, is starting ...

Carole Brown was heartbroken last month when she learned her great-grandmother’s casket had been disturbed by vandals who broke into the family crypt. Brown said this was the second time the Poppi ...

Embarrassing, that's how Robert Miller Jr. describes the conditions at the historic Evergreen Cemetery in West Palm Beach. “I see broken tombs and a headstone cracked,” said Miller. Miller has more ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) - Marsha Kirby said someone stole the brass name plate right off her mother's crypt. When the cemetery demanded $1,600 to replace it, it was time to Call Kurtis. Kirby thinks ...

WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. — Jefferson County Sheriff's Office deputies said Wednesday that they're investigating a break-in at a Wheat Ridge cemetery in which body parts were taken from a casket in a private ...

How much should it cost to spend eternity near the woman responsible for the seminal moment in the civil rights movement? The Woodlawn Cemetery here, where Rosa Parks and members of her family are ...

The former manager of a Linden cemetery today pleaded guilty to stealing more than $37,000 in checks written to the cemetery for crypts, burial plots and rental property, according to the Union County ...

Allentown police are investigating break-ins at Fairview Cemetery in the city in which several crypts were damaged, corpses disturbed and items possibly removed. “We’re looking for any information or ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — When her husband died Lisa Demanchick was promised a plaque at his crypt at Riverside Cemetery in six weeks. It’s now going on nine months and the only things with his name ...

NEW ORLEANS – A historic New Orleans cemetery that may have started the city's tradition of above-ground crypts will soon be off-limits to tourists on their own because of repeated tomb vandalism.