NEWARK — It was the last venue for Sarah Vaughan. Friends said goodbye to jazz trumpeter Woody Shaw there as well, along with gospel singer James Ausbin Smith and swing era musician Carl McIntyre.

The New Jersey funeral home handling Whitney Houston‘s rites has become a shrine to the pop icon. A condolence book where mourners can pen a final message to the legendary singer was set on a stand in ...

NEWARK, NJ (CBSNewYork) -- A private funeral will be held Saturday for Whitney Houston at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, where the pop star sang as a child. Houston's funeral service will begin at ...

Hearse drives body to Newark funeral home, where ceremony will be held on Saturday Mourners by invitation only as family want to keep her death personal Preliminary autopsy results show sedatives ...

NEWARK — The funeral for Whitney Houston will be held Saturday at the Newark church she attended as a child. The pop icon will be mourned Saturday at noon at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, ...

Whitney Houston‘s hardscrabble hometown prepared Friday to say farewell to the fallen songbird, who first enchanted audiences while singing in a Newark church choir. Fans lit candles and laid flowers ...

Some in Newark, New Jersey say the late singer's family should have paid for its own security, rather than have the city pay overtime for nearly 200 police officers. By Aaron Couch Whitney Houston ...