In the past three decades, data from the Cremation Association of North America show the number of cremations has more than tripled in this country. ...more

February 11, 2009

Stephanie Lee's hands hovered inches above Michelle Nathe's body and moved slowly over her torso. ...more

January 23, 2009

Sebring City Council heard a request from Darin MacNeill, funeral director at the Stephenson-Nelson Funeral Home and Crematory, to consider an amendment to the city's cemetery ordinance allowing them to store about 50 cremains (cremated remains) in one vault at the city cemetery. ...more

December 18, 2008

Every day for nine years, Barbara and James Roush have visited Serenity Meadows Memorial Park, Funeral Home and Crematory to place an artificial flower on their daughter's grave. ...more

May 27, 2008

RIVERVIEW - Vandals overturned and crushed dozens of grave markers at Serenity Meadows Memorial Park, 6919 Providence Road, the night before the cemetery's traditional Memorial Day service. ...more

May 26, 2008

A funeral director's license has been suspended after the family of a dead man received two sets of cremated remains from the director's funeral home, state officials said. ...more

October 17, 2007

TALLAHASSEE - The funeral director of a now-defunct St. Petersburg funeral home has had his license suspended after a grieving family of a dead man whose arrangements the home handled received two sets of cremated remains, state officials announced this morning. ...more

October 16, 2007

Every year, hundreds of people who die in Hillsborough County have no one willing or able to bury them. ...more

October 2, 2007

TAMPA - Every year, hundreds of people who die in Hillsborough County have no one willing or able to bury them. ...more

October 1, 2007