Death and Mourning
Understanding and adjusting to death and loss at various stages of life.
Almost every child or adolescent faces the death of someone close—a relative, friend, or even a pet...
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On June 20, 2006, 2.08-m (6-ft 10-in) forward/centre
Alonzo
Mourning
provided a dramatic assist for the Miami Heat in game six of the best-of-seven National Basketball Association (NBA) finals, c...
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There was a time, before Jerry Falwell became a household name, when Lynchburg was just Lynchburg _ a small industrial city known for factories and mills.David Campbell remembers how it used to be,...
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Turkmens on Sunday paid final respects to Saparmurat Niyazov, the authoritarian president who for two decades dominated life in this isolated Central Asian nation with his all-encompassing cult of ...
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Alonzo Mourning trains smart. He’s got no choice: By his own admission, his body is his occupation. The 6'10", 260-pound center is a seven-time NBA All-Star and two-time NBA Defensive Pla...
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The Jewish prayer for the dead echoed across the wooden barracks and barbed wire fences of the former Auschwitz death camp on Monday, as thousands gathered to mourn the victims of the Holocaust.In ...
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Maikue Vang's sadness was laced with anger and frustration as a traditional three-day funeral began Saturday for her uncle, a Hmong hunter slain in Wisconsin this month."A lot of people are confuse...
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Schoolmates remembered Pfc. Joseph Anzack Jr. as a gentle jock Thursday, hours after Army officials confirmed the 20-year-old's body was found during an exhaustive search for him and two other sold...
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This week, Michael Bloomberg’s plan to ease midtown traffic by charging a congestion fee died. Except maybe it didn’t.
To hear the mayor tell it, the do-nothing legislature in Albany ha...
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Alonzo Mourning refused to leave what might have been the last game of his career on a stretcher. After tearing the patellar tendon in his right knee in Miami's game against Atlanta on Wednesday ni...
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The notion of not seeing Alonzo Mourning play basketball again is a difficult one for the Miami Heat to accept. Mourning had surgery Thursday to repair a torn patellar tendon in his right knee and ...
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