A FUNDRAISING campaign has been launched to repair the memorial of a Prestonpans miner who died 100 years ago after courageously saving his friend.

A woman from California has an unusual practice. She scours cemeteries to find and cook recipes left by the deceased — and etched on their tombstones. Over the last five years, Rosie Grant, a ...

Volunteers on Tuesday painted tombstones representing each unhoused person who died on South Bay streets this past year, a grim and visual reminder of the harsh reality of living on the streets. More ...

The entire history of the Wild West didn’t take place in Tombstone. It just seems that way due to the legendary cast of characters that shot their way into the history books. Founded in 1879 after ...

Murphy also paid to bury comedian Redd Foxx, who died of a heart attack on Oct. 11, 1991 at the age of 68 DMI/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock Eddie Murphy literally paid his respects to Red ...

Eddie Murphy reveals the celebrities and friends he’s paid to bury in a new documentary. In Being Eddie, the Netflix documentary which follows the legendary comedian’s life and iconic career, Murphy, ...

A nearly 2,000-year-old tombstone of a Roman sailor was discovered in the backyard of a New Orleans home. The Latin inscription on the grave marker prompted a search for the origin story of the marble ...

Homeowners found a marble slab carved with inscriptions while clearing out undergrowth in their yard. Turns out it was 1,800-years-old. Reading time 2 minutes Earlier this year, a couple in New ...

The Repair App is a new platform that connects trusted repair service providers with people who need their stuff fixed. It couldn’t come at a better time for economically strapped consumers. A new app ...

How did a 2,000-year-old Roman tombstone end up in a New Orleans yard? For the past six months, this has been a question pursued by an archaeologist, an anthropologist, and a pair of classicists. As ...

An Oakland grave from 1962 says: “Here lies Joseph A. Sheridan, the master chef from Shannon, Ireland, who created for the world the treasure known as Irish coffee.” Related Articles A steamed fish ...

What’s more Halloween-y than a cookie recipe on a tombstone? This recipe for snickerdoodles comes from the grave site of Annabell Gunderson, who was active in her community of Willits, Calif., who ...