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The early morning sky was a pool of ink, and the air was violently cold, at least by the standards of a Southerner by way of Nigeria. Still, Cornelius Ani [...]

Byline: Justin Vellucci Sep. 21Friends, classmates and others plan to gather at McKeesport's Serra Catholic High School on Thursday night to honor the life and mourn the death of Samantha [...]

Thousands of people waited in line -- a very long line -- to pay homage at the coffin of the queen, who will lie in state until her funeral on [...]

Byline: Michelle Ye Hee Lee and Julia Mio Inuma TOKYO - Relatives of slain former Japanese leader Shinzo Abe gathered Monday for a private wake, traditionally held the night before [...]

Byline: Ovetta Wiggins and Jenna Portnoy WASHINGTON - The body of longtime congressman Elijah E. Cummings is lying in state Thursday at the U.S. Capitol, during a day of tributes [...]

Byline: Jenna Portnoy The first public opportunity to view the body of Rep. Elijah Cummings, who died Thursday at age 68, will be Wednesday at Morgan State University in Baltimore. [...]

Byline: Clarence Williams As she stood on church steps, Melissa Laws clapped boldly and loudly led a chorus of family, neighbors and strangers Thursday in singing Stevie Wonder's 'Happy Birthday' [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDJust before 10 a.m. on Monday, the normally frenetic scene in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral, on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, went silent. A Cadillac hearse pulled up, [...]

Byline: Adam Smeltz July 08--Brooklyn Beatty, 2, was a fiesty tattletale, never afraid to keep her four older brothers and sisters in line, family members said. Her sister, Ryeley, 3, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDSunando Sen had no close relatives still living, nor had he started a family in his adopted home of New York. So it was the close circle of friends [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY and PATRICK WHITE SANDY HOOK / GRIEF TORONTO and NEWTOWN, CONN. -- Two communities 2,700 kilometres apart are mourning a vivacious six-year-old known for staging impromptu [...]

The wake of Sun Myung Moon, one of the most preposterous egomaniacs of the post-war world, is well under way this weekend. Tens of thousands of believers are heading to [...]

Byline: SHELLEY ROSSETTER; Times Staff Writer TAMPA -- For more than 60 years, Ruth Wollter has wondered what became of her brother. A Marine serving in the Korean War, Lt. [...]

Byline: ALEX ORLANDO; Times Staff Writer ***** (01/25/2012) CORRECTION: Haley Mamonoff, the younger sister of a teen who was hit and killed by a car last year, is 9 years [...]

SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea said on Thursday that it would place the body of Kim Jong-il on permanent display in a Pyongyang mausoleum and install his statues, portraits [...]

IN BRIEF Hundreds of mourners gathered on the weekend to say their final goodbyes to former CITY-TV anchor Mark Dailey. Mr. Dailey, 57, died last Monday. The veteran newsman, famous [...]

He was a writer, an actor, a charmer, a neighborhood fixture and the son of a legendary mobster. Bobby Spillane, 45, cast a wide circle in life, with Hell's Kitchen [...]

CAPTION(S): PHOTO: Edilma Moreno, whose brother Edgar died when the scaffolding on which he was working in Manhattan fell 47 stories on Friday, greeted a visitor at the wake in […]