Edward J. Defort, veteran funeral service trade publication editor and writer, has been named the new editor-in-chief of The Director magazine, the official publication of the National Funeral...
Tiffany Stewart is currently a graduate student at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas and expects to complete a Masters in Counseling in 2011. Her areas of...
A Southwest Airlines employee called police after finding human heads in a package set to be transported to a Fort Worth medical research company, the airline said.
Stewart Enterprises, Inc., Funeral Consumers Alliance, Inc. (FCA), and their respective counsel today jointly announced that Stewart and FCA have entered into a confidential Settlement Agreement ending a...
This weeks content hasn't been the most positive. The news that is coming out of Arlington National Cemetery is very sad and disheartening. Our industry really doesn't need...
A Virginia funeral home accused of mishandling bodies awaiting burial at Arlington National Cemetery has been fined $50,000. The Virginia Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers and National...
Accused director allegedly mishandled corpse. State regulators in Ohio have shut down a funeral home where a director is accused of mishandling a corpse and other misdeeds. The...
Several mud-caked headstones line the banks of a small stream at Arlington National Cemetery, the country's most venerated burial ground. Farther upstream in a wooded area, a few...
Carriage Services Inc. has acquired funeral home business Heritage Memorial Services. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Houston-based Carriage, also a death care services provider, purchased...
The International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association has contracted with instructors from two of the world?s top business schools to provide customized research and training at its 2010...