HANOVER TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — The faded, weather-worn tombstone Michelle Davies sometimes passed in St. Mary’s Cemetery gives passers-by just one cryptic detail about the fate of the bones below.

Underneath the black-and-white picture showing a gloved young woman with crossed ankles and a bouquet of flowers in her lap, the cross-shaped headstone says Jennie Monica, 19, died on June 2, 1927 ...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday declared unconstitutional a towering cross-shaped monument that has marked a major intersection in Prince George’s County for 90 years. In a 2-1 ruling, the ...

The myth-busting site Snopes.com reported on a 2003 viral email falsely claiming that the ACLU was suing to have cross-shaped headstones removed from military cemeteries.

A federal appeals court has ruled that a 40-foot cross-shaped Maryland monument honoring soldiers who died in World War I is unconstitutional, saying it violates the separation between church and ...

Several tree-shaped headstones grace the older cemeteries of South Hampton Roads - relics of a time when men joined fraternal organizations and the chopped tree symbolized a life cut short by death.

A humanist advocacy group has filed a federal lawsuit to remove a cross-shaped World War I memorial in Prince George's County, alleging the display violates the First Amendment.

A federal appeals court has ruled that a 40-foot cross-shaped Maryland monument honoring soldiers who died in World War I is unconstitutional, saying it violates the separation between church and ...