Walter Williams was pronounced dead and about to be embalmed when he woke up inside a body bag at a funeral home.

Sometimes, you need a place that understands and guides you during difficult times. These Capital Region funeral homes have earned their places on this list by offering the trust and compassion needed ...

ASHLAND — A natural-gas line accidentally cut Thursday morning — and in the process of being repaired by utility crews for some two hours — instead violently exploded, hospitalizing six people and ...

Any Lucia López Belloza, 19, was detained by immigration agents at the Boston airport before a flight to surprise her family in Texas for Thanksgiving. She is now in Honduras. By Amanda Holpuch and ...

The Massachusetts House of Representatives today passed a bill that establishes a licensure process for home care agencies to ensure that consumers receive quality non-medical services, and to protect ...

Three quarters of the ZIP codes in Southern Nevada have seen home price declines year-over-year, according to a new study. Most of the ZIP codes (74 percent) that saw the largest per square foot ...

The brain doesn’t gradually fall asleep. Instead, it reaches a tipping point at which it rapidly transitions from wakefulness to sleep in a matter of minutes – a discovery that could improve our ...

Upwards of 3 million people die every year in the United States. As a funeral director who heads a university mortuary science program, I can tell you that while each individual’s life experiences are ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mark Evely, Wayne State University (THE CONVERSATION) Upwards of 3 million people die ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - Former Albany City Commissioner Jalen Johnson and his family held the funeral for Johnson’s younger brother Phillip Winchester on Saturday. On Friday, the family scrambled to make ...

A research team from the University of Ljubljana and the Egyptian Museum of Cairo is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for reproducing the smell of mummies, offering a new window into Ancient ...