The Iraq war was at its raging worst. On one particularly awful day in 2007, 42 bodies arrived at the Dover Port Mortuary. The roadside bombs that were causing nearly three-quarters of the combat ...

Before the funeral, while embalmers were preparing what was left of Angus's shattered body at the Dover Air Force Base mortuary, they had trouble fitting him into a dress uniform. The heat of the ...

DOVER, Del. -- In keeping with the Department of Defense's commitment to honor its fallen warriors, the Port Mortuary was established in 1955 at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Operated by the ...

Panetta two months ago to seek details about the Dover Air Force Base mortuary's practice of dumping troops' cremated body parts in a landfill but says he never received a reply. The congressman's ...

Air Force investigators determined that John Glenn's remains were treated with respect at Dover Port Mortuary, although a supervisor made an inappropriate offer to an inspection team to allow them ...

The workers at the Dover Air Force Base mortuary also told The Associated Press on Friday that they went outside the chain of command after supervisors failed to address the problems and ...

WYOMING, Del. (AP) — The body of the Marine lay on a gurney at the Dover Air Force Base mortuary, an arm bone jutting out from the torso. Embalming technician James Parsons wondered how he would ...

A top-level Pentagon official has accused a senior mortuary employee at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware of twice offering a group of inspectors a peek at the dead body of famed astronaut and ...

The Air Force says it will investigate an incident in which an employee at the Dover Air Force Base mortuary allegedly offered to show John Glenn's remains to Defense Department inspectors.

One of the three former supervisors accused of "gross mismanagement" at the military's mortuary in Dover, Del., has resigned after a report this week detailed how the remains of America's war dead ...

Quinton “Randy” Keel, 44, was the former director of the Dover mortuary division but had been stripped of his seniority in November after a host of whistleblowers brought suspected misdoings ...