About 800 Confederate POWs were briefly housed in a Lafayette slaughterhouse after the Battle of Fort Donelson. Lafayette ...

On May 10, 1929, a Lafayette Leader newspaper article reported that Salvador Samano had died and was buried in the Lafayette Cemetery. However, when walking the cemetery, his name could not be ...

Jun. 18—City officials expect the Lafayette Cemetery to soon bear a new memorial plaque that will honor the individuals buried in unmarked graves. At the Tuesday evening Lafayette City Council ...

A vampire lies in the Lafayette Cemetery on Baseline Road — that is, if you believe the local lore. Theodore Glava, who was born in Transylvania and moved to Lafayette as a coal miner in the ...

A Lafayette cemetery has fallen victim to thieves coming and stealing bronze vases from gravesites. Oakland Memorial Park's general manager said someone stole and ripped out close to 200 vases ...

About 200 bronze vases were stolen from a cemetery in the East Bay, the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday. The vases were stolen from Oakland Memorial Park at 2099 Valley Road ...

City officials expect the Lafayette Cemetery to soon bear a new memorial plaque that will honor the individuals buried in unmarked graves. At the Tuesday evening Lafayette City Council meeting ...