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James A. Garfield, May 30, 1868, Arlington National Cemetery Originally called Decoration Day, from the early tradition of decorating graves with flowers, wreaths and flags, Memorial Day is a day ...

Not to be confused with Veterans Day, this federal holiday honors those ... to President Abraham Lincoln’s commemoration of the dead at Gettysburg in 1863 as a possible origin of the holiday.

Atlanta — The case of a pregnant woman in Georgia who was declared brain dead and has been kept on life ... On her first day of admission, doctors administered hormones to raise her blood ...

After forcing entry into the home, the release said police found Olson-Hartley, his wife Katie Olson-Hartley, and their two children, aged 6 years and 7 months, dead from gunshot wounds.

FLORENCE COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — One person was killed and several others were injured following a Sunday morning shooting at a Florence club, authorities told News13. Details were limited, but it ...

Danielle told police she’d last seen Crystal on June 27. She claimed that on July 4, the day of the murder, she was at her mom’s house all day 20 miles away in Lithia Springs, Georgia. Danielle’s ...

In Birmingham, best friends Mia Watkins and Glenny Brock have transformed their shared grief into a unique community event called the "Dead Mother's Day Brunch." Now in its sixth year, the brunch ...

Gifted at creating vampires and making actors age onscreen, he also won for ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ and ‘Vice.’ By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Cannom worked often with makeup ...

Further investigation upstairs yielded her 64-year-old stepmother’s body, maimed and lying dead on the floor of the ... On the eighth day of the trial, onlookers were horrified by one of the ...

Johnny Rodriguez, the first country star of Mexican American descent known for such recordings as “You Always Come Back (To Hurting Me)” and “Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico,” died Friday ...