ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — President Barack Obama carried out the traditional Veterans Day role today, then made a surprise visit to a part of Arlington National Cemetery reserved for troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, walking among the grave sites and talking to mourners. ...more

November 11, 2009

Lately, the nasty economy has my freezer bulging at the seams. Once an icy burial ground for storing mysterious foil-wrapped chunks and lots of frozen yogurt, it was a no-man's land of leftovers. ...more

February 4, 2009

Vandals desecrated at least 500 tombs of Muslim soldiers in northern France on Monday - an act President Nicolas Sarkozy denounced as "repugnant racism." ...more

December 9, 2008

I stood alone at the corner of the 300-year-old rock church in Wilmington, Del. The only other living being seemed to be an angry squirrel, hanging upside down in a maple tree, his tail shaking as he made it clear I was not welcome in the old cemetery. ...more

September 28, 2008

The secret of Stonehenge has been solved: The mysterious circle of large stones in southern England was a burial ground for almost five centuries, and it probably holds the remains of a family that long ruled the area, new research concludes. ...more

May 30, 2008

DADE CITY - Faced with a mountain of overtime debt, officials in this east Pasco County municipality have come up with a novel approach to compensate workers: offering them plots in the city's cemetery. For a limited time, city staff will be able to trade in some of their accumulated overtime for a reservation in the historical Dade City Cemetery off Martin Luther King Boulevard. ...more

May 28, 2008