LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - A Jefferson County program helped a grieving mother lay her sons to rest two years after their untimely deaths. “My heart is broken,” Shavanda Allen said. “It’s like I can’t ...

CHARLESTON – A program to help with the funeral expenses of people who cannot afford them will run out of money by the end of the month, state officials said. In a letter, dated Jan. 19, 2016, to ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - When Belinda Crookshanks' son and daughter-in-law died of drug overdoses on the same day in April 2015 at age 35, her grief was compounded by a stark financial fact: Despite ...

The Dignity Memorial Homeless Veterans Burial Program honored an East Tennessee veteran Wednesday who died with no relatives to provide for his burial. The program worked with Berry Funeral Home to ...

On a clear cold morning, three days after Christmas, the Rev. Clifton Dawkins laid to rest Rodney Eugene Daniel, 55, of Fulton County. Daniel arrived in a black hearse at Lakeside Memorial Gardens in ...

(TNS) - In the first 90 minutes of Federal Emergency Management Agency's COVID-19 funeral assistance program, the office said they got nearly one million calls. On April 12 , FEMA launched a COVID-19 ...

CHARLESTON — A West Virginia program that helps with burial expenses for indigent residents will have exhausted its funding by Feb. 28 as the state Legislature is working on a bill to address the ...

Drug overdose deaths in West Virginia have overwhelmed the state’s indigent burial program for the fifth consecutive year, according to The Washington Post. The burial program allots $2 million ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - A group of strangers got together Thursday to say goodbye to someone they never knew. The Metro Indigent Burial Program helps people who have died and don’t have family or ...