Waterbury, CT -- Brooklyn man who broke open caskets to rob the dead at a Waterbury cemetery has pleaded guilty to numerous charges. Joseph Vecchiarelli entered guilty pleas to interference with a cemetery or burial ground, narcotics possession, failure to appear in court and other offenses.

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Queen of Mean's last property is fit for a king. Leona Helmsley, for years the imperious head of a multibillion-dollar real estate and hotel empire, will spend eternity in a $1.4 million suburban mausoleum with a magnificent view, alongside her beloved husband, Harry.

By Nancy K. Crevier

Connecticut--The Newtown Village Cemetery is a trove of primitive art, to look at the tombstones that mark the graves of those who perished here in the mid- to late 1700s. Grimacing skulls with wings that flair behind the head seem unsettling decorations for a gravestone, presiding over the grave site with hollow eyes that seem more like something from a Harry Potter novel than an ancient burial ground.

A multistate investigation led to the arrest of three men suspected of using information in published obituaries to burglarize homes while grieving families attend services, Washoe County sheriff's officials said Tuesday.

Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, the mascaraed matriarch of Christian television who with her then-husband Jim built and ultimately lost the country's largest evangelical empire, died Friday after her third fight with cancer. She was 65.

A former Rhode Island Coast Guard captain wanted to honor his father’s dying wish to have his ashes scattered in Narragansett Bay. He soon became frustrated after having little success in finding a company that specialized in such memorials.