GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, June 5 (UPI) -- A woman who won a free funeral at a Grand Prairie, Texas, minor league baseball game said she has survived numerous medical problems.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, May 15 (UPI) -- Officials with a Grand Prairie, Texas, minor league baseball team are giving away a free funeral at an upcoming game.

LAKE FOREST, Minn., Feb. 28 (UPI) -- There's something in the jewelry box a thief stole from a Forest Lake, Minn., home he might want to return -- the cremains of the homeowner's mother.

ROTORUA, New Zealand, July 28 (UPI) -- A New Zealand funeral home director allegedly threatened to dig up a teenager's body because his family hadn't paid for his funeral.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., May 11 (UPI) -- John Harden Jr. died in St. Petersburg, Fla., in March but remains unburied because his mother can't pay $2,000 in burial fees. His body remains in a refrigerated storage unit and will stay there until Judy Jacqueline Brown either pays Harmon Funeral Home

NEW YORK, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Seven New York funeral directors have pleaded guilty to charges tied to desecrating corpses and selling body parts for transplants, prosecutors said.

DETROIT, June 20 (UPI) -- Investigators are still puzzled why the body of a man was left in a shuttered Detroit funeral home but at least they now know who he was. Police found the body of 64-year-old Jimmy Lee Adams in the closed Pope Funeral Home last August.

TRENTON, N.J., June 8 (UPI) -- A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a Jewish funeral home can be sued for emotional distress over the failure to provide a continuous vigil over a body.

HOUSTON, June 7 (UPI) -- The Texas Funeral Service Commission is urging a hefty fine against a funeral director accused of hiding a baby's body in the pants of a man's corpse.