BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) -- A Burlington funeral home and one of its employees have been fined by the state for embalming a body before getting the family's permission.

Embalmer, Sammi Davenport, believes "it goes without saying" people working in the funeral profession "should be respectful" "I was so shocked that you didn't have to have some sort of qualification ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Embalmer, Sammi Davenport, believes "it goes without saying" people working in the funeral profession "should be respectful" [BBC] ...

"I was so shocked that you didn't have to have some sort of qualification to handle dead bodies," said embalmer Sammi Davenport when she recalled first joining the funeral industry. Dame Caroline ...

The demographics in Georgia are changing, and so is the way people choose to ceremoniously depart this world. Embalming, or the practice of preserving a body to delay decomposition, was the preference ...

Sen. Rick Williams, a Milledgeville Republican, presents SB 239, which would remove the requirement that funeral directors be licensed in embalming in order to work in Georgia, on Feb. 5, 2026, in ...

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“I deserve every word you have said and every day that I will sit in prison,” Jon Hallford said in court on Friday. Investigators found nearly 200 decomposing bodies stored improperly. By Christine ...

Thirteen decomposing bodies were removed over the weekend from a Mount Vernon funeral home that the state shut down in May and the director has been charged with handling funeral services without a ...

A major fire broke out Sunday at Cook Brothers Funeral Directors and Cremations on NW Broad Street in Fairburn. All remains were successfully evacuated from the building and moved to a secure ...

HURON COUNTY, MI – A Michigan funeral director will stand trial on more than 30 criminal charges after allegedly embezzling $192,000 from more than 50 victims. Terry Alvin Kaufman, 72, was bound over ...