The growing number of overweight, obese and morbidly obese people is driving demand for oversized caskets and prompting crematoriums to install larger furnaces.

Coffins are now becoming too large to be properly cremated, funeral directors have claimed, as Britain suffers under an obesity epidemic. Funeral service providers have been forced to significantly ...

Flint, Mich. (WNEM) - An early morning fire has swept through the former Swanson Funeral Home building in Flint. Crews were called to the scene on Martin Luther King Avenue around 6:22 a.m. on ...

Frederick J. Swanson, 84, of Merrimack, NH passed away on December 9th, 2025, after living with Alzheimer's disease for eight years. He was born in Providence, RI on July 7th, 1 ...

HURON COUNTY, Mich. – A Michigan funeral home director has been charged with 39 felony counts related to allegedly embezzling nearly $193,000 from prepaid funeral and insurance funds. Kaufman is the ...

A Bad Axe funeral home director has been charged with running a criminal enterprise to allegedly embezzle and convert funds he received for prepaid funerals and insurance policies for his own use, ...

BAD AXE, Mich. (WJRT) - A funeral director in Huron County is facing 39 criminal charges for allegedly stealing money from prepaid funeral insurance policies and spending it on himself. The Michigan ...

FLINT, MI - An early-morning fire completely destroyed a former Flint funeral home. Crews were called to 2210 Martin Luther King Ave. in Flint around 6:20 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 22, said Battalion ...

A native of Fargo, ND, the 32-year-old Swanson spent seven years in the majors with the Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners. “This game took me to places I don’t think I could have ever guessed I’d be,” ...

Friends, family and many others gathered to remember the life and legacy of Colorado state senator Faith Winter on Friday at ...

The couple first announced they were expecting back in May Brad Smith/ISI Photos/USSF/Getty Mallory Swanson is officially a mom The Olympian and USWNT player has welcomed her first baby with her MLB ...

Two funeral homes you know and trust have now come together to better serve families on the Gold Coast. Somerville Funerals ...