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• Veteran cemetery expansion project underway

  December 17, 2019 5:46 PM

  ZACHARY - The Louisiana National Cemetery in East Baton Rouge Parish is expanding. It's adding new elements for visitors and space to bury loved ones. A total of 2,400 crypt spaces for casket burials have already been installed and will be put to use in the next year and... more »

• Burial denied at historic slave cemetery Play Video

  November 21, 2016 6:35 PM

  PLAQUEMINE- Tonight descendants of a slave who purchased property for a cemetery for his loved ones are fighting so their relative can rest in peace. Over the weekend, the burial was blocked by the Iberville Parish Sheriff's Office at a historic slave cemetery which dates back to 1881. Hazel Jones... more »

• Family asks cemetery to exhume mystery grave Play Video

  September 16, 2015 11:30 PM

  BATON ROUGE- A mother and daughter spent the day here, driving in from Texas to try and mitigate what has become a painful process of locating a dead family member whose grave site has gone missing. "Originally, the headstone was right here," Carolyn Jones said as she pointed to... more »

• Family fights cemetery over missing grave Play Video

  September 14, 2015 11:47 PM

  BATON ROUGE - A family is making arrangements to travel from Texas to Louisiana in an effort to gather more information about the disappearance of their loved one from a grave site. "We have no idea whose grave we've been putting flowers on," Courtney Tanner said in a phone... more »