History: Saint Meinrad Archabbey, a Catholic Benedictine monastery, was founded in 1854 in Spencer County by monks from Einsiedeln Abbey in Switzerland. Per their tradition, monks are buried in wood ...

Batesville Services employs 3,000 people, about 600 of whom work in Indiana. The plant in Batesville produces premium copper, bronze and stainless-steel caskets. (Photos courtesy of Batesville ...

Vern Lecy can afford to buy whatever casket he wants. And what the 79-year-old Korean War veteran wants is a casket made by veterans, for veterans. Lecy is near the end of a two-year battle with ...

The logo for popular social media platform TikTok. Llamas and neon yellow slime. A dinosaur holding a flashlight and a pickle. Theater masks and Spider-Man. In the wake of the mass shooting that ...

They built it inside a small prison wood-working shop, tucked away from the main complex of America’s largest maximum-security penitentiary. The three men were inmates: Liggett and Bowman sentenced to ...

I’ve always been drawn to the quiet mystery of abbeys — in books, in travel, and even here in Louisiana. Until earlier this month I had never been to St. Joseph Abbey near Covington. All I knew about ...

EDNA, Texas – A Texas man worked against the clock throughout the Memorial Day Weekend to make custom caskets for the 19 students killed in the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on May 24.