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MONTREAL — Police have named a suspect in the shocking case where dismembered body parts were mailed to Ottawa, including the headquarters of the governing Conservative party. Montreal police say 29-year-old Rocco Luka Magnotta is wanted in connection with a suspected homicide. A man by that same name has a huge presence on the Internet -- as a low-budget adult film actor and for controversial videos he has posted online in the past. There is considerable online chatter that the killing and other gruesome acts on the body were videotaped and posted on the Internet. Magnotta, believed to be originally...

(CBS News)WASHINGTON - The military retirement system has long been considered untouchable - along with Social Security and Medicare. But in these days of soaring deficits, it seems everything is a potential target for budget cutters. A Pentagon-sponsored study says military pensions are no longer untouchable - they're unaffordable. CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports high-level, closely-held meetings are taking place at the Pentagon regarding a radical proposal to overhaul retirement for the nation's 1.4 million service members - a bedrock guarantee of military service. The proposal comes from an influential panel of military advisors called the Defense Business...

The following is from a retired Border Patrol agent who specialized in criminal intelligence. If you choose to watch the video, please be warned that it is extremely graphic.

A jury convicted a well-respected fertility clinic nurse Monday of the 2004 murder of her husband, whose dismembered remains were stuffed in the couple's set of luggage and thrown in the Chesapeake Bay.

Headless torso found in garbage bag in garage.

The Harris County Sheriff's Office reversed course Friday, agreeing to move forward with a landfill excavation to find the body of Tynesha Stewart, even as investigators acknowledged Friday "there is a good possibility" her suspected killer may have dismembered her body and placed her in several garbage bins. Homicide detectives also revealed more details about Timothy Wayne Shepherd's actions following the slaying, including the mysterious discovery of burnt meat at his apartment and a neighbor's report of smoke billowing from his patio the day after Stewart's disappearance.

DEDHAM, Mass. — A prosecutor said Tuesday that a dominatrix waited too long to call for help as a client died of a heart attack during a bondage session, then dismembered and disposed of the body rather than report the death. But the woman's lawyer said in her opening statement that the man never visited Barbara Asher's makeshift dungeon and that police made up the story and bullied Asher into confessing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4472521.stm Trap-building ants torture prey   With cunning and patience, the ants cut hairs from the stem of the plant they inhabit, and use the tiny fibres to build a spongy platform. The elaborate trap snares its prey, which is then stretched like a victim on a mediaeval rack before being hacked to pieces. The ants divide labour according to age, with the oldest individuals being trap builders   A fierce species of Amazonian ant has been seen building elaborate traps on which hapless prey are stretched like medieval torture victims, before being slowly hacked to pieces.With cunning and patience,...

A 16-year-old who admitted helping two other youths dismember and dispose of a former Texas girl's body has been sentenced to a juvenile detention center...

Bush Administration Files Another Partial-Birth Abortion Lawsuit Brief Email this article Printer friendly page by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com Editor February 12, 2005 Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Bush administration on Friday filed another brief defending the federal ban on partial-birth abortions. The brief comes in an appeal of a Nebraska judge's decision overturning the ban in one of three lawsuits filed against it by abortion advocates.The brief is part of an appeal to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals challenging a September ruling by U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf saying the ban was too vague and would prohibit other types of abortions.The...

A missing East Moline teenage girl's dismembered body has been found and a female classmate was charged in her brutal slaying, authorities said Wednesday. Police said searchers located the remains of Adrianne L. Reynolds, 16, overnight Tuesday. She was reported missing by her father, Tony Reynolds, last Friday. Sarah A. Kolb, also 16, Milan, was arrested there early Wednesday, charged as an adult with first-degree murder and ordered held on $1 million bail. Rock Island County Circuit Court records allege she strangled Ms. Reynolds and struck her with a piece of wood sometime Friday in Moline. Court records indicate other,...

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.

Family of Office Shooting Suspect Say Police Were Warned He Was Dangerous Apr 3, 2004 The Associated Press HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) - The parents of a man suspected of killing the manager of a state unemployment office and wounding an employee had warned police that their son might go to the office with a gun, a relative said. William Case, who was arrested about an hour after the shooting behind a nearby store, is charged with murder and attempted murder, police said. He was jailed Saturday without bond. Letch Beatty, 51, a manager at the Hendersonville office, was killed and...

Man Suspected of Harming Girlfriend Kills Himself After Chase; Woman's Head Found in Car Mar 25, 2004 By Brooke Donald/ Associated Press Writer/ SCITUATE, R.I. (AP) - A man who was suspected of harming his girlfriend killed himself after leading police on a high-speed chase, and the woman's head, knives and a gun were found in the man's car. Authorities found Heather Mullins-Keltz's dismembered body in the Plainfield, Conn., home she had shared with Michael Shechtman. Shechtman, 33, shot himself in the head Wednesday as police approached his car after a high-speed chase through several Rhode Island towns. A co-worker...

REMEMBER SADDAM HUSSEIN’S ATROCITIES J. Grant Swank, Jr., POB 1984, Windham ME 04062 Pastor, New Hope Church, Windham ME Lest we grow numb to Saddam Hussein’s atrocities, let us keep in the forefront of our ethics what devilment this “evil” fiend has been up to. Such is the crucial component regarding what a free, morally sensitive global citizenry must do in response to Hussein’s ongoing dark presence in our world. He is a hatchet man of the first order: - Sheikh Taleb Al Souhail, outstanding Iraqi leader and chief of the Bani Tamim tribe, was murdered by Hussein’s intelligence service,...