The mystery of the abandoned ash-filled urns has been solved. The two urns, which Port Authority police found abandoned last month at the Newport PATH station, apparently contained the cremains of an unidentified homeless man's grandmother and aunt, the Jersey Journal is reporting. more ›

The sisters of slain Portuguese journalist Carlos Castro swore they had permission from the city to pour their brother's ashes down a subway grate in Times Square, as per his wishes. But a Bloomberg spokesman says that may not be the case. The scattering of remains on city property is only permitted with a written permit, and spokesman Stu Loeser said, "We did not give them permission." more ›

As per his wishes, the ashes of Carlos Castro—the Portuguese journalist who was beaten, castrated and tortured allegedly by Renato Seabra—were poured into the subway grate at W. 44th St. and Broadway yesterday after his funeral in Newark. His sisters say they received permission from the city to leave his ashes in Times Square, and the Post reports they poured them down the grate without a word. Friend Claudio Montez told the Daily News, "I feel like I'm dead with him. He was like a brother." more ›

The cremated remains of a Queens woman were stolen along with expensive electronics from a rental car on May 9th, just after the woman's memorial service. Hours after Eileen Dashiell's ashes were packed inside a box and placed in a green tote bag by the crematorium, her daughter, Jeanne Shuff, left the rented van parked outside a relative's house in Mott Haven. The next morning, Shuff found the passenger's side window broken and her laptop, camera, DVD player and mother's ashes gone. She told the Post, "First I lost her. And then she was stolen from me." more ›

The mother of Imette St. Guillen is speaking out for the first time since bouncer Darryl Littlejohn was convicted of the rape and murder of her daughter earlier this week. 63-year-old Maureen St. Guillen said that despite her gratitude at the jury's decision, she doesn't believe in closure and said that "the wounds are open for life." She says that while she attended almost all of Littlejohn's trial, Mrs. St. Guillen could not bear to come in on days in which the gruesome details of Imette's murder were recounted. She told the News, "I think about Imette every minute of every day. Sometimes you see a person who looks like her. Her hair, her body shape, that long dark straight hair." St. Guillen also shared with the paper that she now always wears a heart locket with Imette's ashes inside; she also travels with an urn that has both the ashes of her daughter mixed with those of her late husband inside. more ›