KANSAS CITY, Mo. — More than a dozen residents in Lafayette County gathered at a small, historical cemetery Friday to honor the lives of three African-American Civil War soldiers. The service ...

RURAL LAFAYETTE – Harriet Walkup died a month ago at age 96. But she lives through a long-abandoned, now restored pioneer cemetery hidden in the woods next to her Wea Township home. It’s on ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ A group of eighth-grade students have helped clean veterans’ gravestones in a mostly abandoned cemetery once used by prominent black Kansas City-area residents in an effort… ...

A historic Black cemetery in north St. Louis County was vandalized. The headstones were toppled over, and fires were set. Two teenagers are charged with the crime.

Students at Academie Lafayette learned about the historic but run-down Highland Cemetery and wanted to help. Four days before Memorial Day, they cleaned engravings and planted flags to honor veterans.