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Singer Whitney Houston's family has decided against a public memorial for her at a New Jersey sports arena, and will hold an invitation-only service at the church where she first sang publicly.

North Korea's next leader escorted his father's hearse in an elaborate state funeral on a bitter, snowy day Wednesday, bowing and saluting in front of tens of thousands of citizens who wailed and stamped their feet in grief for Kim Jong Il.

Authorities say two Colorado police officers took a wild, drunken ride through Wyoming on their way to a funeral in South Dakota.

Friends and family were saying goodbye to Amy Winehouse Tuesday at a private funeral ceremony in London.

Celebrities, fans, friends and family members will say goodbye to Tony Curtis during public funeral services to celebrate the movie star's life.

The father of a Marine whose funeral was picketed by the Westboro Baptist Church says an order to pay the protesters' legal costs in a civil claim is nothing less than a "slap in the face."

Basketball star Shaquille O'Neal has paid for the funeral of a 5-year-old North Carolina girl whose kidnapping and slaying received ...

A Brazilian bricklayer reportedly killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family by showing up alive at his funeral.

The funeral mass for murdered Yale Univeristy graduate student Annie Le will be held Saturday afternoon at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in El Dorado Hills, Calif.

Mourners for Senator Edward M. Kennedy gathered in long lines around the presidential library in Boston.