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NILES -- Sometime today, the Niles Police Department expects to announce whether the man found in the St. Joseph River on Monday in the Renault LeCar was Thomas Burns, a 28-year-old Stevensville man, who had been missing since March 1989. If it is Burns, then the department will tap into a 3-inch-thick file filled with statements from individuals about what happened the night Burns disappeared. "And if those statements don't match up, we will certainly take a second look at those individuals," Capt. James Merriman said Tuesday. Merriman indicated police are far from determining if the man found in the...

One of the three was Hazam Raheem, a senior Islamic Jihad terrorist planning to carry out an attack in Israel in coming days. The IDF announced that Raheem was one of those parading body parts of IDF soldier around Gaza following a deadly bomb attack on an armored personnel carrier in May. Rahim was also involved in coordinating numerous suicide bombing attacks targeting Jewish civilians. His brother was killed while trying to infiltrate the community of Netzrim, in order to carry out an attack, in April 2002. Rahim was also involved in the launching of Qassam rockets and mortar shells...

Body Found At UN Headquarters In NYC; Had Been Shot UNITED NATIONS (AP)--A body was found inside United Nations headquarters on Monday, a U.N. spokesman said, and U.N. security and the New York police department were investigating the matter. A U.N. spokesman said the person had been shot and that the body was discovered inside the third floor lounge at about 11:30 a.m. EST (1630 GMT). He declined to give any details on the deceased person pending notification of the family. "The United Nations confirms a tragic shooting death at the U.N.," the spokesman said, speaking on customary condition of...

LONDON, England -- Police have launched a murder inquiry after a man found the dismembered remains of his daughter-in-law inside his son's refrigerator while looking for milk, according to police and newspaper reports.

June 13, 2004 The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ Psalm: Sunday 27 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Reading II Gospel Reading IGn 14:18-20 In those days, Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine, and being a priest of God Most High, he blessed Abram with these words: "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, the creator of heaven and earth; and blessed be God Most High, who delivered your foes into your hand." Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything. Responsorial PsalmPs 110:1, 2, 3, 4 R. (4b)You are a priest for...

Act as if you will. Act as if you are serious about attaining your dream. Walk, talk, and act enthusiastically, creating a single-minded attitude of success toward the results you desire. One of America's pioneering psychologists, William James, said that the greatest discovery is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. What he advocated was that if you act as if you are what you want to be, then you will become that. This "act as if" principle is a powerful method of converting your consciousness from conditioned habits into specific positive behaviors that...

CROOKSTON - The body of Dru Sjodin, the UND student who disappeared last November, has been found, authorities said Saturday. Polk County Sheriff Mark LeTexier sobbed as he told volunteers, "Dru is home." He later confirmed that authorities had found Sjodin's body. Volunteers had joined the search for the 22-year-old student on Saturday. A group at Crookston High School broke into applause after his announcement. Sjodin's father, Allan, and her boyfriend were in a trailer at the high school serving as a makeshift command post for authorities organizing the search. Sjodin, of Pequot Lakes, Minn., disappeared Nov. 22 from a...

Eeeyew!!!! AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Body piercing and tattoos make way. The latest fashion trend to hit the Netherlands is eyeball jewelry. Dutch eye surgeons have implanted tiny pieces of jewelry called "JewelEye" in the mucous membrane of the eyes of six women and one man in cosmetic surgery pioneered by an ophthalmic surgery research and development institute in Rotterdam. The procedure involves inserting a 3.5 mm (0.13 inch) wide 1 piece of specially developed jewelry -- the range includes a glittering half-moon or heart -- into the eye's mucous membrane under local anaesthetic at a cost of 500 to 1,000...

I've just returned from a fact-finding mission to Palm Springs, California. Palm Springs is one of the communities suffering most acutely from a growing, frightening, under-reported environmental disaster. The polluted ecosystem in trouble this time is unusual: the human body. In Southern California, the light is very good; there's lots of sunshine. It's warm, so people of all descriptions are scantily clad. These conditions force upon the observant a great deal of data, much of it unwanted, about the state of the modern American homo sapiens body. And, my fellow Americans, the state of the union's body is an ecological...

N.J. Man Investigated About Possible Cannibalism After Eating Soup With Chicken Feet PARSIPPANY, N.J. March 20 — Victor Salazar went to the hospital with back pain and had an X-ray that raised questions about his diet, not his spine. When a doctor asked if he had eaten any bones, Salazar said no, forgetting about the soup he had the day before that included pieces of chicken feet. He left, but radiologists and the Morris County medical examiner wondered if the film showed bits of finger bones. A police investigation began. Newark homicide investigators went to Salazar's home in Newark on...

The Palestinian Authority said it had received US agreement to hand over the body of Mohammed Abbas, the mastermind of the 1985 Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking, for burial in Palestinian territory. However Palestinian Minister of Telecommunications and Technology Azzam al-Ahmad said Israel had yet to approve such a burial for Abbas, 56, who died in US custody in Iraq on Tuesday. Abbas was captured by American forces in Iraq nearly a year ago. "The American side in Baghdad agreed to give us the body of Mohammed Abbas to be buried in the Palestinian territories," Mr al-Ahmad said. "The Red...

It's been almost 3 1/2 years since Austin club owner Paresh Patel was last seen. He was leaving one of his clubs on Sixth Street on a late September afternoon with thousands of dollars in cash. Patel told a relative in a subsequent cell phone call that he was heading to another of his clubs in the Warehouse District. But he never arrived. He failed to pick up his children that evening. No one has heard from him since. During a federal court trial that ended last week, Patel's story re-emerged. Three members of the Texas Syndicate prison gang were...

When Tanya Andrews returned from a recent family holiday in Costa Rica, she had no idea she had brought back a gruesome souvenir. A month later she developed an extremely painful lump on her head. At first, she thought she had an abscess, but then it wriggled. At the Hospital for Tropical Diseases they recognised the problem straight away - it was the living maggot larva of a botfly. While Tanya was enjoying her holiday a mosquito had delivered a tiny botfly egg onto the surface of her scalp. The egg hatched into a maggot and burrowed deep inside. Incredibly,...

Cyber women test what's real By Jo Twist BBC News Online technology reporter Software cyberbabes, created by powerful computers, sophisticated modelling packages and active imaginations are getting extremely human-like. Rene Morel's 3D model has a very human face Virtual cyberbabes are used in advertising campaigns, hit shoot-em-up games, and the pop industry, from Lara Croft to virtual pop idols, T-Babe and Diki or DK-96. Some of the best 3D models around are currently on show at an exhibition which has just opened in London called Perfectly Real: Women in Bits and Bytes. But they raise questions about what people...

PHOENIX - A 75-year-old man stored his wife's body for nearly six years in his backyard, twisted and upside down in an old freezer, because he hoped she could someday be brought back to life, authorities said. When police went to Edwin Rowlette's home after receiving a tip from his daughter, they found dozens of cats along with feces and urine inside the house. The backyard, where one of the daughter's friends discovered the body, was cluttered with garbage, debris, insulation and furniture. Authorities found Marcia Lynn Rowlette's body packed in dry ice and insulation and stored along with the...

MONTREAL - Quebec police say a drunk driver hit a group of three men and continued driving for an hour with the body of an 18-year-old man stuck in the windshield of his car. Nicholas Fortin and two friends were struck by a car as they were leaving a bar in Ste-Adele, north of Montreal, early Saturday morning. People outside the bar rushed to help the two injured men at the side of the road, unaware that a third person had been carried away by the fleeing car. Police arrested a driver 50 minutes later, with the victim still lodged...

Letter from Bin Laden found on body of Saudi bomber By John R Bradley in Jeddah 19 August 2003 A letter from Osama bin Laden and a telephone call made from Iran by his son Saad are linked to a series of al-Qa'ida attacks on Westerners in Saudi Arabia, according to Western diplomats and Saudi intelligence officials. The letter from al-Qa'ida's leader was found on the body of Yosif Salih Fahd Alayeeri, one of 19 attackers involved in a closely co-ordinated series of bombings in Riyadh in May, who was killed in a shootout with security forces in central Saudi...

PORTLAND - The skeletal remains discovered last weekend on Mount Hood belong to somebody nobody knew was missing on the mountain, Clackamas County Sheriff's detectives said Tuesday. The person's identity will not be released until the state Medical Examiner's Office completes a full exam and family members are notified, a process that could take up to a week. Search crews found the skeletal remains on Saturday, during a large-scale search for missing Portland snowshoer Fred Frauens. The Sheriff’s Office at first identified the body as that of Frauens, who disappeared during a solo climb in March. A medical examiner later...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - It may be illegal, immoral and certainly ill-advised, but selling every usable part of your body could fetch upward of $45 million, according to a survey in the August issue of Wired magazine. Even an overweight, out-of-shape body could bring millions when broken down to its valuable fluids, tissues and germ-fighting antibodies. There is, of course, a major catch: Many of the valuable human body parts are those a person could not live without. But it does lay to rest the old concept that the human body, when broken down to its basic elements, is only...

  Email This ArticleResurrection of the Dead   FR. WILLIAM SAUNDERS Question: At Easter, we celebrate that Jesus rose from the dead. In the creed, we believe in the "resurrection of the dead." Could you better explain these beliefs? In the Gospels, Jesus had predicted three times that He would be arrested by the chief priests and scribes, suffer, be condemned to death, and be crucified; however, He also predicted that He would be "raised up" on the "third day" (cf. Mt 16:21, 17:22-23, 20:17-19). The predictions came true. On Easter Sunday morning, when Mary Magdalene and other women, St. Peter...