Antigua Guatemala restaurant in Harbor City has been run by the Pineda family for 20 years. Recently, the family decided to help raise funds for a friend's funeral. Unfortunately, they helped raise funds for two thieves. more ›

Caitlin Doughty believes her fascination with death started when she was a little girl and she witnessed a girl fatally fall from the balcony of a local mall. She went on to get a degree in mortuary science and start a delightful (no, really!) web series about death. more ›

A publicist handling the forthcoming film co-written and produced by John Atterberry, the music executive who was fatally shot during the December 9 Hollywood shooting rampage, died while en route to the music executive's funeral on Wednesday. more ›

Sheriff's deputies responded to a call that there were shots fired at a funeral taking place inside a church yesterday in Rancho Dominguez. Although no one was shot, one woman was injured in the chaos of funeral-goers fleeing the church. more ›

Three Lancaster women who profited from the kindness of strangers have been arrested for running a donation scheme involving a baby's funeral. The women were standing on the street corner asking for money to help pay for the funeral of an 18-month-old boy. more ›

Funeral services are being held this morning for 19-year-old Cesar Rodriguez, a volunteer with the L.A. County Sheriff Department's Explorer program, reports the Daily News. Rodriguez was standing outside of a residence in Whittier in the early morning hours of August 28 with a friend when a gray Scion pulled up and the driver fired a handgun several times at the two young men. Both Rodriguez and his friend, 24-year-old Larry Villegas, died at the scene. more ›

Amy Winehouse's funeral took place today at London's Edgewarebury Cemetery. She will reportedly be cremated following the service, according to ABC News. more ›

Catherine Falk, daughter of the late Peter Falk, unveiled her outrage at being banned from her father's funeral on Inside Edition today. more ›

A funeral for the rapper M-Bone, a member of the group Cali Swag District, will be held today in Inglewood, reports the Daily News. M-Bone, whose real name is Montae Talbert, was shot twice in the head while sitting in the passenger seat of a car outside a liquor store in Inglewood on Sunday, May 15 at 10:30 p.m. more ›

Two police officers from the Hawthorne and El Segundo police departments collided with each other while riding motorcycles and accompanying a funeral procession for another officer who recently lost his battle with cancer, reports the Sacramento Bee. After the officers crashed into one another, the officer from Hawthorne was thrown into oncoming traffic, where he collided with a sedan head-on. The driver of that vehicle wasn't hurt. more ›

Long Beach native and rapper Nate Dogg will be remembered this weekend with a public viewing and funeral in his hometown, thanks to the help of local officials and his longtime friend Snoop Dogg. Nate Dogg, nee Nathaniel Hale, died March 15th at age 41, and had been in poor health in recent years after suffering several strokes. more ›

Elizabeth Taylor will be laid to rest today at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, near her good friend Michael Jackson. The Daily News reports that Forest Lawn officials were informed of the decision to bury Taylor there this morning, and preparations have been made throughout the day. Glendale police will be present to ensure that everything goes smoothly, and Sgt. Tom Lorenz was quoted in the Daily News saying that the department is well-prepared to deal with crowds and issues that arise with a funeral like Taylor's: more ›

Thousands of mourners gathered downtown to honor Glenn Allen, the Los Angeles Firefighter who was fatally injured while fighting a fire in the Hollywood Hills last week. more ›

Tomorrow, the funeral for Los Angeles city firefighter Glenn Allen will be held Downtown at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. The Los Angeles Police Department have advised that there will be hard and soft street closures in effect starting at 6:00 a.m. on Friday, February 25th to accommodate the funeral. The procession begins at 8:30 a.m. from City Hall, and services are scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. more ›

The day after the daughter of Los Angeles city firefighter Glenn Allen lost her father to injuries sustained on duty, she gave birth to a son. "The boy, weighing 6 pounds 7 ounces, was reportedly doing fine," says the Long Beach Press-Telegram. Allen, 61, was critically injured battling a blaze in a home in the Hollywood Hills. The 36-year veteran of the LAFD was among a handful of firefighters hurt on the scene when the water-logged ceiling of the Sunset Plaza-area home collapsed more ›

Authorities say three women are facing criminal charges after investigators reported that the trio lied about a child's funeral to solicit money from drivers in Covina, reports ABC Local. The women, suspected of conspiracy and fraud, are thought to have collected nearly $1000. Covina Police were tipped off about the women appearing in the same place weeks earlier holding signs about a boy supposedly killed in a car accident. Investigators say no such crash occurred. more ›

The teenage busboy, Juan Romero, who "knelt beside a mortally wounded Bobby Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles," paid his respects, 42 years later," reports L.A. Now. more ›

The funeral for Ronni Chasen has been scheduled for 11 a.m. Sunday at Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary, reports The Beverly Hills Courier. Memorial Donations can be sent the Tower Cancer Research Foundation in Beverly Hills. The slaying of veteran publicist Ronni Chasen is still grounds for wide-spread speculation. The 64-year old was shot five times in the chest while driving home through Beverly Hills after the premiere and party for "Burlesque," early Tuesday morning. more ›

A private funeral will be held this morning for Los Angeles police officer Joshua Cullins at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Officer Cullins, 28, was a Marine reserve staff sergeant serving as a bomb-disposal technician. He was killed on October 18th on duty in Afghanistan, "when a secondary explosion was set off as he was investigating an earlier blast in an area near Marja," according to LA Now. more ›

The funeral, processional, and burial of fallen California Highway Patrol Officer Philip Ortiz began with a service Downtown at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, then moved solemnly across the city on the same freeways Ortiz served for so many years to his burial place in Culver City. more ›

A 9:30 a.m. funeral mass is scheduled for California Highway Patrol Officer Philip Ortiz, who died in hospital several days after being struck while conducting a traffic stop on the 405 freeway by a driver using the shoulder. more ›

Several high-profile leaders, past and present, were on hand this morning at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels to pay tribute to the late former LAPD Chief Daryl Gates. more ›

As we mentioned last week, the LAPD has initiated several street closures in Downtown this morning for the procession and funeral of Chief Daryl Gates. Some will last until Noon, however some will be intermittent to accommodate the procession. Use the suggested alternates for getting around Downtown this morning. More information is available from the LADOT. more ›

Tuesday is Daryl Gates' funeral, which means street closures in downtown, but today is also a big day downtown as fellow police officers and the public are invited to pay final respects at LAPD's headquarters from noon to 8 p.m. "Gates' rites will be the closest thing to a state funeral that Los Angeles could have," says Patt Morrison at the LA Times "In fact, I think that if there were enough water in the L.A. River, they would put the chief’s coffin on a flaming barge, and, like Vikings, push it, ablaze, out to sea." more ›

Just as with last week's funeral for SWAT Officer Robert J. Cottle, the death of Former LAPD Chief Daryl Gates means streets closures next Tuesday morning in downtown Los Angeles. "People not participating in Daryl Gates’ funeral service should avoid the area, as some of the streets in the Central Business District will experience intermittent closures on Tuesday,” said LADOT General Manager Rita L. Robinson. more ›

Services for the fallen LAPD SWAT member Robert J. Cottle, who died in Afghanistan, are being held this morning in downtown. Thousands are expected to turn up and traffic will get a bit turned around this morning. Streets are already closed for the 8:45 a.m. procession from the LAPD headquarters to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. A 9:30 a.m. a private service will commence inside. Cottle is the first LAPD officer to be killed in Iraq or Afghanistan. R.I.P. more ›

Today the Eastsider L.A. takes us back on the tracks of local history and shares a bit of the story behind The Descanso, "a 101-year-old Los Angeles street car built to transport mourners as well as the deceased to burial services." Now residing at the Orange Empire Railway Museum, "it is the only remaining funeral streetcar still on its own trucks known to exist in the U.S." notes the Pacific Railroad Society. From 1909 to 1940 the streetcar could be chartered; "Los Angeles Railway provided this service to Inglewood Park, Rosedale, and Evergreen Cemeteries and to those on Whittier Blvd. in East Los Angeles." The Eastsider L.A. has a photo of the Descanso as it looks today--check it out. more ›

After going to court yesterday to determine how tonight's funeral will be paid for, Michael Jackson is scheduled to be buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale around 7 p.m. tonight. For locals on the tail end of rush hour, there will be street closures in effect (map below). No specific time for closures has been listed by the city of Glendale on its website, but expect them to begin in the afternoon, lasting into the evening. more ›

Officials with the Los Angeles County Fire Department released the names of the two firefighters who lost their lives in the Station Fire earlier today. Captain Tedmund “Ted” Hall, 47, and 35-year-old Firefighter Specialist Arnaldo ”Arnie” Quinones went over the edge of a mountainside road south of Acton as they were overrun by the fire while driving a vehicle. Hall, a 26-year veteran of the department, lived in San Bernardino and Quinones, of Palmdale, served for eight years. "This accident is tragic," said Captain Mike Bryant with difficulty at a press conference earlier today. "This is a very diffcult time for Los Angeles County Fire Department and the men and women that serve day in, day out." Funeral arrangements are pending and information relating to services will be made available in the near future. more ›

Today might be a little chaotic, but remember this: what usually would take months in planning was done in only a few days. Yesterday, various agencies alerted the media and public of closures to streets, freeway on and off-ramps and public transit service changes. Here's what you need to know... more ›