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In this undated but recent photo supplied Friday March 15, 2015, by the London Crossrail Project, showing archaeologists working on the UK’s largest infrastructure project, Crossrail, as they uncover an historical burial ground in central London. Scientists were called in to investigate bones found during the digging of a new railway in central London, after uncovered 13 skeletons were found. The skeletons will be tested to see if they died from the Black Death plague which killed between 30 and 60 percent of the European population in the 14th century, and scientist hope to map the DNA signature of the plague bacteria. (AP Photo / Crossrail Project)

Construction workers find mass burial site

Last updated Monday, March 18, 2013 - 10:47am

LONDON -- Workers digging a new railway line in London have uncovered what they believe is a burial ground containing victims of the Black Death - a plague that wiped out as much as half of London's inhabitants when it swept the city in the mid-14th century.

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Syracuse ends infant burial fee controversy

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, December 27, 2012 - 1:01am

SYRACUSE — City leaders do not expect to make changes in cemetery burial fees, after a resident recently requested the $100 fee for an infant burial be waived.

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J&D s Foods is pleased to announce the launch of Bacon Coffins. Yes, the world s first bacon-wrapped casket. I think we all knew it would eventually end here. (J&D Foods/MCT)

Company introduces bacon coffin so bacon-lovers can be wrapped for eternity

Jim Rosen The Baltimore Sun

Last updated Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 11:25am

Bacon lovers, are you sitting down?

Better yet -- are you dead?

If so, your dream product is here.

Today they guys who brought the world Bacon Salt, Baconnaise and most recently, Bacon Lube, unveiled their latest creation: the bacon coffin.

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Bury Josh Powell near sons? 'Unthinkable,' family attorney says

Rene Lynch Los Angeles Times

Last updated Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 6:30pm

Josh Powell's family members want him buried in a Washington state cemetery just a few strides from his two sons, the same boys that he chopped with an ax before killing them and himself in a fiery explosion more than a week ago.

But an attorney for the boys' maternal grandparents says she will stop at nothing to ensure that the plan isn't carried out.

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Group moves to prevent Josh Powell from being buried near sons

Jennifer Sullivan The Seattle Times

Last updated Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 6:24pm

SEATTLE -- CrimeStoppers of Tacoma-Pierce County has purchased the cemetery plots on either side of the gravesite of Charlie and Braden Powell to ensure that their father, Josh Powell, will not be buried next to them.

The move was in reaction to reports that Powell's family wants to have him buried near his sons, whom he killed in a gasoline-fueled fire on Feb. 5, said Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Ed Troyer. The two boys were buried Saturday in a single gravesite at Woodbine Cemetery in Puyallup.

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Family members escort the shared casket bearing the bodies of Charlie and Braden Powell, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, following a funeral service for the boys, in Tacoma, Wash. Charlie and Braden died Feb. 5, 2012, when their father, Josh Powell, set fire to the home he was living in while the boys visited. Powell had been a person of interest in the 2009 disappearance of his wife Susan. (AP Photo/Deseret News, Ravell Call)

Josh Powell's family wants him buried near slain boys

Gene Johnson The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 4:26pm

PUYALLUP, Wash — Josh Powell’s surviving relatives want him buried at the same cemetery as the two young sons he killed, the city manager in Puyallup said Wednesday.

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West Haven offers discount on burial plots

Amber Weston Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, January 13, 2012 - 12:27am

WEST HAVEN -- The city is ready to sell burial plots in the new cemetery and is offering a discount for early purchases.

City residents or property owners can go to City Hall between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Jan. 23 or 24 to purchase plots at the discounted price of $450. After the presale, the plots will cost $550.

"It's a great public service to the residents," said West Haven Parks and Recreation Director Brock Randall.

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(SERGEY PONOMAREV/The Associated Press)In this Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011 file photo, rebel fighters trample on a head of Moammar Gadhafi inside the main compound in Bab al-Aziziya in Tripoli, Libya. Misrata’s fighters emerged from weeks of punishing street fighting during the bloody siege of their hometown battle-hardened and instilled with a searing hatred for Moammar Gadhafi. In the end, they extracted their revenge, putting the dictator’s body and that of his son on display as a trophy. For Misratans, it was a fitting end to the civil war, and a clear signal that they are a force to be reckoned with in post-Gadhafi Libya.

Gadhafi buried in unmarked grave at dawn

Karin Laub, Rami Al-Shaheibi The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 10:18am

MISRATA, Libya — Moammar Gadhafi was buried at dawn Tuesday in an unmarked grave in a modest Islamic ceremony, closing the book on his nearly 42-year rule of Libya and the eight-month civil war to oust him.

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