But why insist on simplicity? If the body ultimately decomposes, wouldn’t a more expensive wooden casket—mahogany, perhaps—be just as suitable? The answer speaks not only to how we honor the ...

Every seat in the church, including the balcony, was filled. Mourners approached the half-open mahogany casket, lined in pink, flanked by flower arrangements and guarded by two NYPD police ...

AUSTELL, Ga. (AP) — A memorial service was planned for Friday near Atlanta for Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone, who was killed in a car crash south of Montgomery, Alabama.

Mourners filed into the massive Word of Faith Cathedral west of Atlanta, taking their seats around a silver and gold casket surrounded ... Her 2001 album “Mahogany Soul” reached No. 22 on ...