Bodies usually stiffen after death in a process known as rigor mortis. But why does this happen, and how long does it last?

President Trump used the death of civil right activist Jesse Jackson to take a cheap shot at former President Barack Obama—and to pat himself on the back for not being racist.

But grief doesn’t follow a set script, and just because someone’s not openly mourning doesn’t mean they aren’t feeling the ...

James Van Der Beek's friends and costars, from Sarah Michelle Gellar to Melissa Joan Hart, are sharing their memories with the "Dawson's Creek" star.

Spouses qualify for burial with the veteran even if the spouse remarried after the veteran's death. That detail surprises many people. A surviving spouse who remarries doesn't lose eligibility for ...

More than two months after her mother’s death, the grieving process has begun anew for Aloma Washington. Her 74-year-old ...

A West Boca Raton woman has been sentenced to time served of 137 days in jail, followed by 10 years of probation, after pleading guilty to the death of her newborn in 2022.

“Please pray for our family as we bury our sweet little Molly today because I believe in the power of prayer,” Melissa wrote on Feb. 6 Desiree Anello is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

A Colorado funeral home owner who stashed 189 decomposing bodies in a building over four years and gave grieving families fake ashes will be sentenced Friday on corpse abuse charges.

CAMDEN, N.J. (WPVI) -- Plans are underway to lay to rest Camden firefighter Howard Bennett after he fell into the freezing Delaware River while on duty Thursday. Bennett's body was taken from the ...

After she dropped to her knees outside her home in Midlothian, Virginia, suffocating, after she was lifted into the ambulance and told herself, “I can’t die this way,” and after emergency workers at ...