Cemeteries

Societal norms condition us to fear death and avoid grief, but local groups like the STL Death Cafe encourage people to lean into such topics.

The century-old Black cemetery in north St. Louis County is seeing new attention from volunteers after decades of neglect.

After decades of grassroots organization and cleanup efforts by volunteers, the Father Dickson Cemetery in Crestwood has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.

A man who confessed to damaging more than 100 headstones at a Jewish cemetery has been sentenced to three years’ probation.Alzado M. Harris, 35, of St.…

Six months after vandals knocked down more than 150 gravestones at the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City, members of the local Jewish…

Executive director Anita Feigenbaum is standing in the rain, amid repaired headstones at Chesed Shel Emeth, the historic Jewish cemetery in University…

When Terri Williams’ daughters brought home their Black History Month assignment from school, she noticed most of the historical figures were entertainers…

Why aren’t Dred Scott and his wife buried in the same cemetery?Pamela Richardson posed that question to Curious Louis recently after a visit to Calvary…

A few years ago, Betty Zweifel Eberley started tracing her family's history."I can't go back any further than 1816, my dad's great-grandfather," she told…

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois says the way American veterans receive disability claims has "got to change."His comments come as the federal…