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Tests show ricin in letters to Obama, senator
Associated PressThe FBI says laboratory tests have confirmed the presence of ricin in letters mailed to a U.S. senator and to President Barack Obama. The FBI said Thursday that further tests are still being done, but that lab results show the toxin was used in the...Tags: Judges, The Associated Press, Police Arrests, Lawyers, Lab Tests
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Man sentenced in Indiana to life in prison for killing former Hagerstown girl
The Journal GazetteA man who admitted to killing a former Hagerstown girl was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Allen Superior Judge John Surbeck accepted Michael Len Plumadore’s guilty plea to charges of murder, abuse of a corpse,...Tags: Flu, Prisons, Trials, House Building, Health
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Where to bury the truly awful
If you don't believe in souls or an afterlife, then a corpse is just a body — potentially a teaching tool, a source of lifesaving organs, but little more. In 1829, taking such thinking to the extreme, a radical British pamphleteer named Peter...
Tags: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Mental Health, Pakistan, Authors, Values
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Not just any body
If you don't believe in souls or an afterlife, then a corpse is just a body — potentially a teaching tool, a source of life-saving organs, but little more. In 1829, taking such thinking to the extreme, a radical British pamphleteer named Peter...
Tags: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Pakistan, Mental Health, Authors, ABC (tv network)
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Editorial: Abortion in a 'house of horrors'
For anyone who thinks abortion should not be legal, Dr. Kermit Gosnell's Philadelphia clinic was a nightmare almost beyond imagination — dirty and vile-smelling, with bloodstained furniture, unsterilized equipment and containers filled with the body...Tags: Abortion, Social Issues, Kermit Gosnell, Trials, Family Planning
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Jamestown settlers ate 14-year-old girl, researchers say
The early American settlers called it "the starving time," and accounts of the winter of 1609-1610 were so ghastly, and so morbid, that scholars weren't sure if the stories were true. George Percy, then president of the English settlement of Jamestown...
Tags: Historic Jamestowne, Culture, Cannibalism, Arts and Culture, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia)
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In Guatemala, a twist as genocide trial nears end
MEXICO CITY — On the first day of trial, a witness named Bernardo Bernal recounted how, as a 9-year-old in the spring of 1983, he hid in a stream and watched Guatemalan soldiers kill his parents and two younger brothers. On the second day of...Tags: United Nations, Personal Service, Trials, Lawyers, Wars and Interventions
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Attorney: Miss. man denies mailing suspected ricin
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man charged with mailing letters with suspected ricin to national leaders was surprised by his arrest and maintains he is innocent, his attorney said Thursday after his first appearance. Paul Kevin Curtis, 45,...Tags: Judges, Police Arrests, Trials, Lawyers, Justice System
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Mississippi man arrested for mailing suspected ricin to Obama, senators
CORINTH, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man accused of mailing letters with suspected ricin to national leaders believed he had uncovered a conspiracy to sell human body parts on the black market and claimed "various parties within the government"...
Tags: National Government, Anthrax, Roger F. Wicker, Police Arrests, Government
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Prosecutor can't show accused cannibal criminally responsible
Harford County's top prosecutor said Wednesday that he does not have enough evidence to show that Alexander Kinyua is criminally responsible for killing a family friend and eating his organs last year. A state psychiatric hospital previously found that...
Tags: Judges, Laws, Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, Harford County, Mental Illness
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Horse-slaughter jobs embraced even in state where cowboys roam
ROSWELL, N.M. - Tim Sappington is ready to buy horses for Valley Meat Co., which is seeking to open the first U.S. horse slaughterhouse since 2007. Right now he's the only paid employee, and he puts his money where his mouth is. He eats horse meat....Tags: UFO Sightings, Politics, France, Humane Society of the United States, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Woman receives life sentence in connection to 2009 murder of man in White Marsh apartment
A Jamaican woman received a life sentence Friday for murder in connection with the 2009 death of a man in a White Marsh apartment – after which officials say she and her co-conspirators dismembered the body and disposed of pieces in the Loch Raven...
Tags: Judges, Rod J. Rosenstein, White Marsh, Laws, Trials
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