A south Louisiana police department has launched an investigation after several headstones and urns were damaged or displaced at a cemetery over the weekend. In addition, some of the graves at Denham ...

OBERLIN, La. (NEXSTAR) – The board of a Louisiana cemetery that denied burial to a Black sheriff’s deputy is holding an emergency meeting Thursday to remove a whites-only provision from its sales ...

On the last Monday of January, Ralph McHenry Boudreaux was buried in grave 499 at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Cemetery in Slidell, capping a service steeped in military precision and pomp.

SHREVEPORT, La. - Carver Memorial Cemetery, one of Shreveport’s most historic African American burial grounds, is home to the graves of veterans, business leaders and civil rights activists. But for ...

This article is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public radio stations across the United States. This story, by Eva Tesfaye, was published in collaboration with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The oldest cemetery in the U.S. is said to be the Myles Standish Burial Ground, which dates back to approximately 1638. This may ...

Emily Dalfrey lives across the street from Niblett’s Bluff Cemetery, where generations of her family are buried, in Vinton, Louisiana. In 2016, a period of prolonged rainfall caused flooding so severe ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Memorial Day is coming up and the Northwest Louisiana Veterans Cemetery needs volunteers to help place flags on veterans graves. Their events for Memorial Day weekend are as follows: ...