Tag: Funeral
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Owners of Colorado funeral home where decomposing bodies were found plead guilty
Two co-owners of a Colorado funeral home where around 190 decomposing bodies were found last year pleaded guilty Thursday to federal fraud charges, officials said. Jon Hallford, 44, and his wife Carie Hallford, 47, co-owners of the Return to Nature Funeral Home, each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in…
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New York family sues funeral home after 96-year-old woman’s casket is sent to wrong country
A New York City family is suing a funeral home for mistakenly sending their mother’s casket to another country for burial. Carmen Maldonado died two days after her 96th birthday. Her wish was to be buried in Ecuador next to her husband. Her family, who lives in Queens, was preparing for the funeral in Ecuador…
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Funeral services held for Kentucky judge allegedly shot by sheriff in courthouse chamber
JENKINS, Ky. — A Kentucky judge who authorities said was fatally shot by a sheriff last week was remembered Sunday as a pioneer who fought opioid addiction and favored treatment over jail for low-level drug offenders. Hundreds of mourners, including a procession of black-robed judges, filed into the Jenkins High School auditorium to pay their…