
'Duck' Dunn remembered on Memphis' Beale Street
The late bass player Donald "Duck" Dunn was honored Wednesday in the city where he performed on some of R&B's best-known hits, with musicians leading ...

Gibb matriarch loses third son with Robin's death
Her sons were blessed with musical gifts that brought riches and fame. On Monday, Barbara Gibb was living a parent's ultimate nightmare — preparing, ...

Mary Kennedy is mourned at private funeral in NY
Family and friends gathered Saturday at a modest stone church in a hamlet north of New York City for the funeral of Mary Richardson Kennedy, the ...

Wake for Mary Kennedy held amid apparent rift
The two sides of Mary Richardson Kennedy's grieving family faced off in court Friday over custody of her body, just hours before she was mourned at ...

Private family funeral planned for Donna Summer
Donna Summer's funeral will be a private one for family and close friends. Publicist Brian Edwards said in a statement Friday that Summer's family is ...

Wake planned Friday for Mary Richardson Kennedy
As someone who lived at the edge of the spotlight that shines on the Kennedys, Mary Richardson Kennedy had been there long enough to become a partner ...

UN team in Syria evacuated from tense town
A team of international observers was evacuated from a tense town in northern Syria on Wednesday, one day after a roadside bomb hit their convoy and ...

NY seeks to deny murderers spousal burial rights
As Constance Shepherd's family grieved over her death at the hands of her husband, they had hoped to find some comfort by giving her a proper funeral.
Egypt funeral turns happy after dead man awakes
The funeral of a 28 year-old waiter in southern Egypt turned into a celebration when he woke up after being declared dead. Hospital officials had ...

Friends remember 'Goober Pyle' actor Lindsey
Actor George Lindsey was remembered Friday as the grinning Goober who made television viewers laugh for three decades on "The Andy Griffith Show" and ...

7 coffins at funeral for NY highway plunge victims
Seven shiny white caskets crowded the front of an old brick Catholic church in the Bronx on Friday for the funeral of seven members of one family, all ...

Woodstock wake held for The Band's Levon Helm
There was a reunion, of sorts, at Woodstock on Thursday. Musicians, friends and fans gathered in the board-and-batten barn where Levon Helm staged his ...
Memorial set for Levon Helm at his Woodstock home
Levon Helm's friends and fans have been invited to a memorial at the home where the late drummer and singer for The Band staged his "Midnight Ramble" ...
Thousands pay respects at Morosini's funeral
Thousands of fans filled the streets of Bergamo on Thursday to pay their final respects to Piermario Morosini, the Livorno midfielder who collapsed ...

Greece: Clash after service for man who shot self
Greek protesters marching in memory of a man who killed himself over financial woes that he blamed on the government attacked a policeman in Athens ...

Movie, centennial, return Canada town to spotlight
Among the graves of Fairview Lawn Cemetery, there is one that was a magnet for bouquets and weeping girls in the 1990s. The name on the tombstone: J.
Memorial held for 7 killed in Oakland shooting
Civic and religious leaders in Oakland are mourning the deaths of seven people who were gunned down in one the nation's deadliest campus shootings in ...

Earl Scruggs remembered for banjo excellence
Earl Scruggs was remembered Sunday as an influential, helpful and humble banjo player who put his own mark on bluegrass music. Some 2,300 mourners ...
Public paying last respects to Earl Scruggs
Mourners have gathered in Nashville to pay last respects to bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs. A public funeral was set for Sunday afternoon at the Ryman ...

Hundreds attend funeral for slain Montana teacher
Residents of a tight-knit eastern Montana town mixed calls for justice with sorrowful relief Friday as they mourned a high school teacher who was ...

Thousands attend India funeral of Tibetan activist
Thousands of emotional Tibetan exiles chanted prayers and shouted slogans in northern India on Friday as they attended the funeral of a man who set ...

Thousands line streets to mourn late king of Tonga
Homes swathed in purple and black formed a bright bow running from the countryside to cities of Tonga as the mourning nation honored and buried their ...

Belgium holds service for victims of bus crash
King Albert II and thousands of mourners on Wednesday remembered the 28 victims of last week's bus crash in a Swiss tunnel during a memorial service ...

Jewish victims in French shooting buried in Israel
A rabbi and three children gunned down at a Jewish school in France were buried Wednesday in a Jerusalem cemetery, with a bereaved mother and wife ...

Tonga king funeral March 28; 3 months of mourning
Tonga will hold a state funeral for its king on March 28. King George Tupou V died Sunday in Hong Kong at age 63. The cause has not been released.