Burial vaults have a practical purpose. They prevent the ground over a grave site from sinking as the casket underneath deteriorates with time. Vaults keep bodily fluids from leaking out. In the words ...

A man has died after being crushed by a burial vault while working at a Dallas funeral home. Dallas Fire-Rescue officials ...

Officials have identified the man who died Monday when a burial vault meant to enclose caskets crushed him. Angel Anthony Rojas, 24, died at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital at about 3:24 p.m.

Dallas Fire-Rescue was dispatched shortly after 2 p.m. to the Restland Funeral Home located at 13005 Greenville Avenue.

After struggling for months to identify remains and to reinter dozens of caskets and vaults upended by the August flood, Livingston Parish officials on Thursday proposed new regulations for burials in ...

LAFITTE, La. (AP) — Hurricane Ida swept through Louisiana with furious winds that ripped roofs off buildings and storm surge so powerful it moved homes. What it wrought on the living it also wrought ...

An April 9 Facebook video shows a man identified as Dave Bohannon speaking about what he found on the side of the road one day in 2000 in Madison, Georgia. Footage of numerous piles of black boxes is ...

Burials in Livingston Parish cemeteries will take on a different look after the Parish Council effectively banned surface-level vaults. The new regulations, adopted Thursday, require burial vaults to ...