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Headless Body Found In ManholePOSTED: 11:47 am EST November 26, 2007 UPDATED: 2:43 pm EST November 26, 2007 DETROIT -- The Wayne County Police Department is investigating the discovery of a decapitated man’s body inside a manhole on Monday morning. The Wayne County Water Department told Local 4 they found the headless body in a manhole in an alley near Kercheval and Montclair streets on Detroit’s eastside. The water department said it was called to the area to investigate reports of backed up sewage. Police said the body has been taken to the Wayne County Medical examiner’s office. However, police...

A man walking his dog came upon a decapitated body near a railroad line running through Oliveira Park, police said. Police spokesman Eddie Garcia identified the victim on Thursday as Hector Miranda, 64. Garcia said in a story for Friday's editions of The Brownsville Herald that investigators found some notes that indicated Miranda was suicidal. Miranda apparently put his head on the track to meet an oncoming train, he said. The body was discovered Wednesday evening, but it was not clear when Miranda died. He was holding keys in his hand that matched a nearby car, police said.

PONTIAC - Livingston County authorities are investigating a gruesome and bizarre death today. A bystander in a parking lot in the 1000 block of West Reynolds Street called 911 about 4:30 a.m. today to report a tow truck driving erratically across two parking lots before it hit a sign and continued across a road into a ditch. When police arrived and inspected the vehicle, they found a decapitated body inside. They then found a human head in the parking lot where the caller first noticed the truck.

"The Defense Department at www .americasupportsyou.mil is endorsing an Iraq tour by Operation Straight Up to offer "faith-based entertainment" there. It does not mention that Operation Straight Up views its entertainment tours as a "holy crusade" to convert soldiers and Iraqis to fundamentalist Christianity. The entertainment includes the distribution of packets with religious tracts printed in both English and Arabic, along with a rapture video game, "Left Behind: Eternal Forces," in which the player is assigned to convert or kill the unbelievers left behind after the rapture. The game's virtual character shouts "Praise the Lord!" every time a nonbeliever is...

In response to this ridiculous article: http://www.suntimes.com/news/quicktakes/506963,CST-NWS-qt12.article Quote: "The entertainment includes the distribution of packets with religious tracts printed in both English and Arabic, along with a rapture video game, "Left Behind: Eternal Forces," in which the player is assigned to convert or kill the unbelievers left behind after the rapture. The game's virtual character shouts "Praise the Lord!" every time a nonbeliever is killed. The Bush administration knows what our soldiers in Iraq need -- additional holy wars." I emailed the author: Quote: On Sunday, August 12th, you wrote about the "Left Behind: Eternal Forces" computer game being distributed...

The severed head of a town councilman was dumped outside the offices of a newspaper in Mexico's Gulf state of Tabasco in what the paper's publishers said was an attempt to intimidate reporters. The head, left outside Tabasco Hoy's offices in Villahermosa, was wrapped in newspaper inside a cooler and left by a man who stepped out of a sport utility vehicle early Saturday, the paper said on its Web site.

• NEW: Officials think the man tried to climb through duct, got stuck and died • Body was on roof of cafeteria at a Phoenix, Arizona, elementary school • It was found as plumber investigated foul odor; school was evacuated • Police detective said the adult was "not related to the school" Adjust font size: PHOENIX, Arizona (AP) -- The body of a man who apparently tried to break into an elementary school was discovered Friday in an air conditioning duct on the school's roof, police said. The body was found as a plumber investigated a foul odor noticed by...

Severed Head Found Outside Mexican Base A severed head reportedly accompanied by a note of defiance from organized crime gangs was found outside a military barracks in Veracruz state on Saturday. The head was found in a box outside the army base in Veracruz city, just hours after the government announced it was sending troops to respond to a shooting attack. The box also held a message saying gangs would continue operating despite the presence of troops, Mexico's Reforma newspaper reported. The victim's body was found shortly afterward on a street in another neighborhood, wrapped in a sheet. On Friday,...

The decomposed corpse of a German man has been found alone in his bed after nearly seven years, police in the western city of Essen said today. The police said in a statement the man was 59 and unemployed at the time of his death. He most likely died of natural causes on November 30, 2000, the date he received a letter from the Welfare Office found in the flat, police said. Next to the dead man's bed police found cigarettes, an open television guide and Deutschemark coins, which went out of circulation after the euro was introduced in 2002....

Neither snow, nor rain, nor fire and brimstone will keep Joshua Witter from the swift completion of his appointed rounds come the end of the world. Witter, a 24-year-old self-described atheist living in Orlando, is the creator of the Post-Rapture Post, which bills itself as "the postal service of the saved." For as little as $4.99, Witter offers to deliver your letters to friends and loved ones left behind after the Rapture, when some Christians believe they will be whisked up to heaven while everyone else — the "Left Behind" of the popular book series — suffers a series of...

BURLINGTON, NJ, April 3, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Thursday, March 22, officials at Burlington Township High School enlisted the help of two local policemen to carry out a mock ‘hostage situation’ drill at their school.  The drill invoked disapproval from Christian students as the student body was told that the alleged gunmen were “members of a right-wing fundamentalist group called the 'New Crusaders' who don't believe in separation of church and state.” According to a report in the local paper, The Burlington County Times, the mock gunmen pretended to gun down several students in the hallways before taking 10...

Conclusion Although the pretribulation rapture theory is very popular today, given arguments that are offered in support of this doctrine we must declare Pretribulationalism to be contrary to the clear teachings of Scripture. Simply put, there is not one shred of evidence that can be found in the Bible to support the pretribulation rapture. The typical Pretribulational arguments offered reveal a pattern: of imposing one’s presuppositions onto a text without any exegetical justification whatsoever; of finding subtle meaning between words and/or phrases that were never intended by the author; of spiritualizing or ignoring passages that contradict the Pretribulational paradigm; and,...

(03-20) 04:42 PDT Mundelein, Ill. (AP) -- Golf course workers uncovering the tees for the season discovered a human skull at a suburban Chicago club and found bones nearby in the fairway, authorities said. The skull was spotted Monday near the 14th tee of the Prairie Course, one of two 18-hole courses at the Countryside Golf Club in Mundelein, according to Lake County Forest Preserve Police Chief John Galford. "It was laying there, right in the middle of the fairway," Galford said. He said the identity and gender of the person had not been determined, but the skull had some...

Woman allegedly lived with dead roommate Thu Mar 8, 5:29 PM ET CANTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. - A 28-year-old woman may have kept the body of her roommate in their apartment for up to three weeks, police said. An anonymous caller told police in Wayne County's Canton Township on Tuesday night that the woman was living in the apartment with her dead roommate. "Our detectives knocked at the door and the woman opened it and there is that odor, and you know right away what it is," Detective Rick Pomorski told The Detroit News. The body of the woman, believed to...

More than a year after death, LI man found in front of his TVBy Associated Press Saturday, February 17, 2007 - Updated: 12:04 PM EST HAMPTON BAYS, N.Y. - A man’s body was found in his home more than a year after his death, with the television still on and his features preserved by dry conditions, officials said.     Vincenzo Ricardo, 70, apparently died of natural causes, said Dr. Stuart Dawson, Suffolk County’s deputy chief medical examiner. Southampton Town police found Ricardo’s body this week when they responded to a report of burst pipes.     Ricardo was found in a chair...

Spotsylvania Sheriff's Office searches Livingston Landfill for body, clues, after workers discover a severed foot there By MICHAEL ZITZ Authorities painstakingly picked through 127 tons of garbage at a Spotsylvania County landfill yesterday, searching for a body in the area where a severed human foot had been found Saturday. Using heavy machinery, rakes, cadaver dogs--and even sifting by hand--35 county deputies and fire-and-rescue volunteers went about a gruesome task that Sheriff Howard Smith said might go on for several days at the Livingston Landfill near Brokenburg. Workers found the foot at about 3 p.m. Saturday as they were cleaning the...

MOSCOW, Idaho — Longtime church-goer Gert Rizzoli was so devoted to her spot in the pew at Featherside Congregational church that when she passed away last month, her family received permission to bronze her body and set it in the pew. Now, to the consternation of some church members, her body is permanently located in the aisle seat she occupied every Sunday for forty years. "She loved gazing at the pastor from that spot, being the first in her row to receive Communion, having quick access to the bathroom," says daughter Sofia. "It gave her a sense of deep, spiritual...

Human Remains in Ancient Jar a Mystery Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News Jan. 23, 2007 — For over 100 years, four blue-glazed jars bearing the nametag of Rameses II (1302-1213 B.C.) were believed to contain the Egyptian pharaoh's bodily organs. But analysis of organic residues scraped from the jars has determined one actually contained an aromatic salve, while a second jar held the organs of an entirely different person who lived around 760 years later. Now the question is, who was this individual? "We do believe that the unknown person was of importance for at least two reasons," said Jacques Connan,...

It begins suddenly: a flash, and they’re gone. Leaving behind just wisps of smoke and personal effects, the righteous are transported to heaven. The rest of us stay trapped on Earth, confused about our missing colleagues, friends, spouses and children, without whom we will enter a period of biblically foretold carnage called the Tribulation. So begins Left Behind: Eternal Forces, a game of interactive spiritual warfare, where the Rapture comes to your PC. It was inevitable, really. Left Behind, the 12-book series of eschatological potboilers by evangelical minister Tim LaHaye and former journalist Jerry Jenkins, has made a huge commercial...

Affluent children score higher than poor children on standardized tests, and Asians and whites do better than blacks and Latinos. The No Child Left Behind Act, an education law signed by President Bush in 2002, was supposed to help change that. But as Congress prepares to reconsider the legislation this year, there are few indications that achievement gaps have been shrinking. In California, middle-class students' performance on state exams continues to exceed poor students' performance at about the same rate as three years ago, according to a report the Policy Analysis for California Education research center released late last year....