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Ashes

Lent begins with Ash Wednesday services across Tri-State area

  • Mar 5, 2025

CT mother searching for lost necklace with son's ashes

  • Nov 12, 2024

Family hoping to find ashes that were taken away in stolen vehicle

  • Oct 10, 2023

Ash Wednesday marks beginning of Christian season of Lent

  • Feb 22, 2023

Man mailed ashes of person he's never met in bizarre mishap

  • Feb 2, 2023

Ash Wednesday marks beginning of Christian season of Lent

  • Mar 2, 2022

Gabby Petito's ashes scattered at national park, dad's post suggests

  • Oct 16, 2021

Woman finally gets grandfather's ashes after urn got lost in mail

  • Sep 1, 2020

Latest Videos

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Churches observe Ash Wednesday

  • Feb 22, 2023
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Man mailed ashes of person he's never met in bizarre mishap

  • Feb 2, 2023
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Ash Wednesday: Changes made for some amid pandemic

  • Feb 17, 2021
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Urn containing man's ashes found after being lost in mail

  • Sep 1, 2020
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Woman devastated after grandfather's ashes get lost in mail

  • Aug 28, 2020
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Ash Wednesday marks start of Lent for Christians

  • Feb 26, 2020
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LI woman returns home to find late husband's ashes stolen

  • Nov 6, 2019
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Burglar steals ashes of woman's late husband from New Jersey home

  • Nov 5, 2019

Latest Stories

"It's just unfathomable!" Grandfather's ashes get lost in mail

A Long Island woman is distraught and outraged after her grandfather's ashes got lost in the mail

  • Aug 29, 2020

Ash Wednesday marks start of Lent for Christians

The ashes, which are made from palms burned on last year's Palm Sunday, symbolize repentance.

  • Feb 26, 2020

Burglar steals urn containing baby's ashes from family's home

Police are searching for a burglar who stole an urn containing the ashes of an Illinois family's baby from their home.

  • Dec 13, 2019

Long Island woman returns home to find late husband's ashes stolen

Bernice Immordino returned home in North Bellmore to find her living room and bedroom ransacked. The stolen jewelry and credit cards were all replaceable, but not what she kept inside a gold treasure chest - her husband's remains.

  • Nov 6, 2019

Burglar steals ashes of woman's late husband from New Jersey home

A New Jersey woman who was the victim of a burglary is coping with the loss of something far more significant than any possessions -- the ashes of her late husband.

  • Nov 5, 2019