RALEIGH, N.C. — A bill meant to curb the use of embalming fluid as a drug made its way to debate Wednesday in the North Carolina General Assembly. Other WRAL Top Stories The Rakim Shackleford Act, ...

State legislators are looking to crack down on the use of embalming fluid as a dangerous new drug. The bill would make it a felony for people who don’t work in a funeral home to possess or sell ...

CHARLOTTE — People are using embalming fluid to get high, which could lead to dangerous and deadly situations. North Carolina lawmakers are pushing to regulate its use, and local funeral homes are ...

Wrapped up in the study of mummies, Egyptologists have been mystified about how pharaohs and other revered dead were embalmed so well. Some recent research, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, ...

Investigators are looking into the theft of 12 bottles of embalming fluid from a Roanoke Rapids funeral home. On Feb. 19, authorities said someone burglarized Hockaday Funeral Home and only took ...

The funerary practices of the ancient Egyptians can still reveal surprising information. In a recent analysis of the 3,500-year-old remains of the noblewoman Senetnay, found in jars in the Valley of ...

A 28-year-old Carbondale woman — who police said smoked embalming fluid-laced marijuana the night her 2-month-old son died in ...

It happened on Tuesday at Garnes and Toney Funeral Home on East Andrews Avenue. Police said embalming fluid and an embalming machine were taken during the break-in. Authorities said dipping cigarettes ...

Sickening photos show blood and embalming fluid leaking from behind a Louisiana funeral home Thursday and seeping onto the street, according to WBRZ. To many, the large puddles that formed from the ...