Dec 23 - By Associated Press
A sheriff's deputy found a woman's body on fire near a church early Sunday, authorities said.
Dec 17 - By Associated Press
Police found the body of an elderly woman in a vehicle that had been in an accident and taken to a tow yard the day before, authorities said. The woman's injured son had been pulled from the car the day of the crash.
Nov 27 - By Associated Press
A woman wrapped her dead mother's body in garbage bags and dumped it at the side of a road in order to cash her mother's retirement checks, Marion County authorities said Tuesday.
Nov 16 - By JOHN FLESHER, STF
Relatives of George Gipp are suing another family member, ESPN and a sports writer over the exhumation of the football legend's body to determine whether he fathered a child out of wedlock.
Nov 10 - By JOHN FLESHER, STF
A paternity test shows college football hero George Gipp wasn't the father of a girlfriend's child born shortly after his death, a family member said Saturday, but bitterness persisted over the exhumation of the body.
Nov 8 - By Associated Press
A man whose body was found in a border area ravaged by recent wildfires was the ninth death directly related to the blazes, authorities said Thursday.
Nov 5 - By Associated Press
A man's body was found in an area frequented by illegal immigrants that was ravaged by recent wildfires, and his death may be the eighth directly attributed to the fires, authorities said Monday.
Nov 2 - By Associated Press
Police said Friday they had begun an investigation after a woman oversaw the cremation of a body she believed was her son — who turned up alive the next day.
Oct 30 - By Michael Rubinkam, AP Writer
Authorities on Tuesday exhumed the body of a pregnant woman whose dismembered remains were stuffed in suitcases and tossed over a bridge more than 30 years ago.
Oct 30 - By Michael Rubinkam, AP Writer
Authorities on Tuesday exhumed the body of a pregnant woman whose dismembered remains were stuffed in suitcases and tossed off a bridge more than 30 years ago, hoping DNA and other new techniques will help identify her.
Oct 20 - By Associated Press
A woman has been arrested and charged with murdering a 2-year-old boy whose body was found in a suitcase dumped in a pond in suburban Sydney.
Oct 17 - By Associated Press
A group of children playing in an Australian park Wednesday opened a suitcase they found floating in a pond and discovered the body of a youngster inside, police said.
Oct 17 - By Associated Press
In an Oct. 10 story about the exhumation of George Gipp's remains for a DNA test, The Associated Press, relying on information from Gipp's hometown, erroneously reported he scored 83 touchdowns for Notre Dame. Gipp scored 21 touchdowns and passed for eight others, according to the university's sports information office.
Oct 10 - By JOHN FLESHER, STF
The body of George Gipp, the Notre Dame football player who inspired the rallying cry "Win one for the Gipper," was exhumed recently for DNA testing in his Upper Peninsula hometown.
Jul 25 - By Associated Press
A man charged with improperly disposing of a corpse claims he chopped up his friend's body, stuffed the parts in a metal drum and rolled it into a river in a panic after the friend died of a drug overdose, police said.
Jun 25 - By Associated Press
A woman's decomposed body and her malnourished and dehydrated 2-year-old son were found by police investigating a foul odor in a locked apartment.
Jun 20 - By Todd Richmond, AP Writer
Police initially went to a rental property in this sleepy Wisconsin town in search of a 2-year-old girl kidnapped from her Florida foster home by her mother last fall.
May 2 - By Associated Press
A couple checking out a house for sale were shocked to discover the 55-year-old homeowner dead in her bed. Authorities said foul play was not suspected.
Apr 18 - By Nafeesa Syeed, AP Writer
The body of a college student who had been missing since last fall was discovered in a country club swimming pool when a worker removed the pool cover to get it ready for summer, police said.
Mar 30 - By Associated Press
A 16-hour standoff between police and a man who shot and killed his mother in the driveway of the house he holed up in ended early Saturday in the man's death, police officials said.
Mar 26 - By Brain decoder, New Scientist Writer
One of the great challenges for neuroscientists is to understand the code the brain uses to send information along neurons. Researchers at Brown University on Rhode Island have now come up with a device that may help to tackle the mystery.
Mar 20 - By Associated Press
A body found slumped over machinery in a dormitory's high-voltage utility room was identified Tuesday as a 19-year-old Purdue University student who vanished in January, school officials said. A maintenance worker investigating a "pinging" sound on Monday discovered the body of Wade Steffey, a freshman who was last seen in the area Jan. 13 after he left a fraternity party. The Tippecanoe County coroner identified the body Tuesday.
Mar 7 - By Miguel Hernandez, AP Writer
The body of a man killed in a shootout during a clandestine horse race last weekend was stolen from its freshly dug grave in Mexico's Gulf coast state of Veracruz, an official said Wednesday.
Mar 1 - By Associated Press
Authorities identified a man whose dismembered body was found scattered around San Diego this week as a 57-year-old transient, and they arrested an acquaintance early Thursday on suspicion of murder.
Jan 26 - By Associated Press
The Cleveland Clinic settled a lawsuit filed by the family of a woman who died seven years after a surgeon left a rolled-up towel inside her chest.