Outside the steps of the Lincoln Memorial Saturday, hundreds gathered to say goodbye to the penny. Yes, the penny.

Nitama was a calico kitty who worked as the second-ever feline train stationmaster at Wakayama Electric Railway Co.'s Kishigawa Line in Japan Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE.

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Faculty and students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln held a funeral march Wednesday to protest proposed budget cuts that would eliminate four departments. The cuts, ...

What's it like to witness the last journey of a murdered president? Lincoln's assassination left Americans shocked and grief-stricken. But it also opened the door for opportunistic criminals. Thune ...

Let’s talk about death, baby! No, this isn’t the start of a morbid Salt-N-Pepa parody—it’s an invitation to explore one of Houston’s most fascinatingly offbeat attractions: the National Museum of ...

You know how they say everything’s bigger in Texas? Well, that includes our fascination with the afterlife, apparently. Tucked away in Houston’s northern reaches sits a 35,000-square-foot building ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Roper and Sons funeral home has long helped Lincoln families lay loved ones to rest, but the facility is now seeing a shift unlike any before. Co-owner and president Tom Roper, ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) – Police in Bartlett, Tennessee, say the driver of a funeral home limousine is responsible for a crash with a CSX train that sent several people to the hospital with serious ...