Brothers admit stealing parts from 244 corpses

"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Two brothers who ran a funeral home and crematorium admitted Tuesday that they sold corpses to a company that trafficked stolen body parts, a macabre scheme that left families aghast and unclear about the fate of their loved ones. Louis and...

Businessman Decapitated Himself Using Aston Martin to Get Revenge on His Ex

"A businessman committed suicide by decapitating himself in his £90,000 ($137,300) Aston Martin in order to get revenge on his younger wife who left him. For some time the 54-year old Gerald Mellin warned 33-year old Mirrielle that he would commit suicide. In addition, he...

Canadian Bank Robber Pleads Guilty To Funding Rebels

Wow, this guy certainly doesn't even look like he's over 18, let alone a criminal mastermind."A Canadian bank robber who pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing an antique jewellery piece made for a 19th-century Austrian empress also revealed he was funding Kurdish rebels in...

O.J Simpson To Give Up Memorabilia And Rolex Watch

"O.J. Simpson has been ordered to give up a Rolex watch valued at up to $US22,000 ($25,000) and sports memorabilia as partial settlement of a multimillion-dollar judgment for the wrongful deaths of his former wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend, Ron Goldman. Los Angeles...

Punk'd by the 1970's: Time Capsule Contains Porn

A time capsule was embedded a wall in the University of Washington's Dept. of Communications in the early 1950's, to be opened one hundred years later. Then, in the far-flung future of the late 1970's, pranksters opened the time capsule and inserted artifacts of their own,...

German Football Fans Single Out 'Racist'

Racial tension has long been a spectre haunting European football, brought to non-European attention mainly by mega-moments such as the Zidane head-butt during the last Wold Cup final. For every one of those moments, how many are there that go unreported or unanswered?...

La. mayor's death sparks controversy

"WESTLAKE, La. - In the hours before his death on the evening of Dec. 30, the first black mayor of this overwhelmingly white town started learning his new job. ADVERTISEMENT About noon, he set City Hall's alarm system for the first time. He got instructions on how to raise...

New Mexico's ban on aspartame is still possible in spite of heavy resistance

Sen. Gerald Ortiz y Pino, D-Albuquerque, has sponsored a bill that would ban the sale of food containing aspartame, a popular sweetener that some claim is a toxin that poses serious health risks. Original source: http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/37758.html - Gerald Ortiz y...