LOUISVILLE, KY - A Louisville funeral director has been arrested after police say he was keeping a decomposing corpse in a room with no refrigeration. Authorities had already suspended Nathaniel Anderson's license last summer.

The Marlborough Express

NEW ZEALAND--Plans to bury human ashes in an underwater reef in the Marlborough Sounds have not been fully revealed to the public, a Karaka Point woman says. An advertisement for resource consent application to build several artificial reefs is misleading because it fails to mention that one of the reefs will be a controversial eco-burial site, says Karaka Point resident Loreen Brehaut.

Fallon's Blog

Society is rife with misconceptions, or myths, about serial killing and the killers themselves. Everyone has an opinion on the subject, and most of those opinions can be said to stem from popular culture. Serial killing is a very big industry (Egger, 2002). Unfortunately, however, the industry isn’t so much concerned with truth and accuracy as it is with selling the ideas for as much as possible. As a result, most of what we like to believe we know about serial murder is inaccurate.

By Marcus Dysch

LONDON - A woman whose husband's funeral was delayed because his coffin had been measured incorrectly and the grave dug to the wrong size could take an undertaker to court after he refused to increase his compensation offer of £300 ($393) and a bunch of flowers. Sarah Coleman's husband, David, who ran the Rampley's plumbing company in Finchley, died on New Year's Day following a two-year battle with cancer.

Purcell, OK -- An early morning drug raid at a Purcell funeral home landed the funeral director and five others in jail. The McClain County Sheriff’s Office, assisted by the Purcell Police Department and district attorney investigators, executed a search warrant at Yoakum Funeral Home.

A Dutch primary school teacher who is dying of cancer is overseeing one last project among her beloved pupils - they are making a coffin for her. Eri van den Biggelaar, 40, has just a few weeks left to live after being diagnosed last year with an aggressive form of cervical cancer. Always popular at school, she asked the arts and crafts teacher to build a casket for her.

By Marissa Amoni, The Beacon News

Calvary Cemetery, Aurora, Illinois: Tombstones and Obituaries: Michael Fichtel and Jane Haldeman walked among the dead for the last couple of years. They were not spooked. They were intrigued. As members of the Fox Valley Genealogical Society, Fichtel and Haldeman make it their mission to become acquainted with those supine and six feet under in the Aurora area.

By Rae Lyn Hartley

MEMPHIS, TN - A woman accused of trying to sell stolen cemetery vases is on the loose.  The man accused of stealing those vases is charged with the crime. Memphis Police say $55,000 worth of bronze cemetery vases have been stolen from numerous graves at Forrest Hill Cemetery.