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Thursday, April 8, 2010
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Seminar intended to reform convicted burglars
Yearly statistics dating back to 2007 show burglaries across Indianapolis are on the rise In an effort to combat the problem the Department of Public Safety is putting on a seminar for 200 convicted burglars
Raw Giraffes Frolic at Chicago Zoo
A herd of giraffes runs and frolics at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago after they are let into their outdoor yard for the first time this season April 7
Nailed to Pole, Cat Clings to Life
Authorities in Illinois are looking for the person behind a disturbing animal abuse case April 7
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Monday, April 5, 2010
Raw Overgrown Kids on Big Wheels
Adults take to Big Wheels in a street race in San Francisco Some wore costumes as they tore down a winding hilly street Not everyone made it to the finish line April 5
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Texas Church Gives Away Cars for Easter
A Texas church had quite the Easter celebration giving away cars flat-screen televisions and furniture April 5
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Lawyer Quits Job and Turns Lego Artist
A New York-based artist creates amazing sculptures from Lego pieces April 3
Friday, April 2, 2010
Police look to motive in body parts case
albuquerque police are saying they may know why donated body parts ended up at a kansas facility and as for the parts that didn t go to kansas police say they found organs limbs and heads -- still inside biocare during a search this week misa maruyama joins us from bio- care near alameda and louisiana with more misa police say they found some bodies intact - and some dismembered some of them rotting because of a freezer that wasn t working people who trusted loved ones to bio-care are wondering if their family members are those that were found here sharon frausto was told she d get her husband s remains tuesday but still doesn t know where they are 04 23 it s just an empty feeling there s nothing out there for me to claim there s nothing for me to hold on to there s no gravestone there s no urn there s nothing for me and i would like to have that closure 04 38 the company that received her husband s body -- bio care -- sells body parts to medical facilities then gets them back cremates the body and returns the ashes to families the company owner-- 31-year-old paul montano -- is facing three counts of fraud for failing to give back the remains as promised police say it costs 900 dollars to cremate a single body but they say stericycle in kansas could do it for less 30 58 what we speculate is that maybe there was some kind of financial problems or some kind of issue where he was just trying to cut corners and he did not want to pay the money to cremate the bodies 31 11 14 08 the guy was overwhelmed and underfunded and got himself way over his head and made some very strange decisions 14 15 these two sisters still don t know whatc c c c c c c c c ccc c c c happened to their mother s body after donating it to bio-care 13 51 i m very angry at the deception if i saw paul right now i d have some not very nice things to say to him police say some bodies are still here at bio-care o-m-i says it couldn t find space for all of them -- but says they are properly preserved here
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Owner of medical research company charged with fraud
the owner of an albuquerque company-- that accepts and distributes body parts for research -- is now charged with fraud 31-year-old paul montano is charged with three counts -- after a shipment of body parts was sent from albuquerque to a kansas medical waste plant but the fraud charges aren t based on the mishandling of those bodies kayla anderson is live from biocare in northeast albuquerque to explain kayla there s no law on the books in new mexico to handle a case where a body is mistreated so i asked the d-a why fraud charges the answer is the families of the three bodies that have been id d so far don t know if they really have the ashes of the right person or a strangers this is a real unusual case any case that the law doesn t provide for such as this these circumstances is a very unusual case an unusual case-- with some unusual details according to the criminal complaint montano s company called biocare receives donated bodies he gives the organs to medical and research faciliities and the organs are later returned to biocare once those facilities are done with them the entire body is then cremated-- free of charge-- and the ashes are returned to the donor famiiles but investigators say that s clearly not what happened this week-- when a shipment of heads and torsos mistakenly ended up in kansas well they find out later that the cremation really isn t taking place or at least not with the whole body and so they re being defrauded according to the crimianl complaint-- montano denied dismembering any of the bodies but district attorney kari brandenburg says-- even if that were the case-- there s no law on new mexico books to charge him with a body in and of itself does not have any value it certainly does have a lot of value to the family members and the loved ones but objectively it s hard to define that with a value today the judge lowered montano s bond-- to fifty thousand cash or surety montano s lawyer says his company was non-profit and it s not likely he ll be able to post bond i talked to montano s lawyer outside the courtroom today we ll hear more from him at six meanwhile the d-a says montano could face more charges if other bodies are identified
Shot in the Heart, With a Nail
A 30-year-old man has a nail enter his heart in a carpentry accident April 1
WI Trails Magazine
Wisconsin Trails Magazine columnist Mary Lou Santovec discusses her latest article Medatative Meanderings 16 public labyrinths
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