7 h. ago Chilling last post of Kentucky cheerleader, 21, who 'hid dead newborn in a trash bag in closet'

Laken Snelling, 21, was arrested on Saturday and charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and concealing the birth of an infant.

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1 week ago Colorado funeral home hid rotting bodies for 15 years as owner gave fake remains

Officials discovered at 20 decomposing bodies that had been stashed away inside the funeral home for over a decade with efforts ongoing to find out their identities and alert their families

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1 week ago Colorado governor calls for county coroner to resign after inspectors found decaying bodies

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is calling for a county coroner to resign immediately after state inspectors found about 20 decomposing bodies behind a hidden door in a funeral home he owned

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1 week ago Funeral home owner who stashed 200 decaying bodies set to be sentenced over corpse abuse

Jon Hallford and his wife ran a 'morbid racket' for four years from their Return to Nature Funeral Home

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1 week ago Funeral home owner who stashed nearly 200 decaying bodies set to be sentenced for corpse abuse

Two years after piles of decaying bodies were found in a rural Colorado building, a funeral home owner is set to be sentenced for 191 counts of corpse abuse

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2 w. ago Verdict and sentencing for Brazil's Bolsonaro is set for early September

Brazil's Supreme Court has announced that it will deliver a verdict and sentence in the coup trial against former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro early next month

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2 w. ago Married couple 'lived with corpse of intimate threesome partner for over a year'

James Agnew, 55, and Suzanne Agnew, 57, were arrested on Thursday and charged with multiple counts each, including abuse of a corpse and tampering with a deceased human body

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2 w. ago Missing Jayden Spicer's mum begged for help before being charged with his death

Felicia Gross has now been arrested and charged with manslaughter, abuse of a corpse, tampering with evidence and falsely reporting an incident after son Jayden's body was found

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2 w. ago Vegas funeral home which smelled of ‘death’ shut down after failing to cremate bodies

Owner ofMcDermott’s Funeral Home and Creation Services says delays were because of slow county bureaucracy, not neglect

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3 w. ago MP calls for sentence review for man who threatened to 'gang rape and set fire' to stewardess on Heathrow flight

Salman Iftikhar, 37, told Virgin Atlantic stewardess Angie Walsh she would be dragged from her hotel room, gang raped and set alight

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3 w. ago Celtic fans set new title record as Rangers and Russell Martin served bleak sentence by Hotline jury

Our man Scott McDermott takes your calls on another bumper edition of the Hotline

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3 w. ago Illinois teacher brought boy, 11, to her home for 'play dates' then raped him

Alley Bardfield, 34, is set to be sentenced in September after pleading guilty to predatory criminal assault against a sixth-grade student.

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4 w. ago Judge denies Diddy’s release from jail before October sentencing

The former music mogul is set to be sentenced on October 3 and could face up to 10 years in prison for each charge

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4 w. ago Colorado funeral home owner accused of sending fake ashes pleads guilty to fraud

A Colorado funeral home owner admitted to sending customers fake ashes and defrauding the federal government in a plea deal with federal prosecutors

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4 w. ago Desiree Burch: The Golden Wrath review – uproarious tales of a midlife cataclysm

Monkey Barrel, EdinburghThe charismatic standup rails against middle age with inventive and sometimes lurid material about the perimenopauseDesiree Burch is 46. For most comedians, this is the time to deliver your mildly grumpy show about middle age: the bodily decay; the annoying habits of the generation coming up behind you. That all features in The Golden Wrath, but it’s ratcheted up to the nth degree. For Burch, middle age isn’t a mild development, it’s a cataclysm. The perimenopause apparently has 66 separate symptoms, and Burch’s mind and body are weathering not a slow decline but an all-out attack. All-out attack is Burch’s performance style too, in a show that hurls at us her experience of hormonal female midlife.It’s a blast – because our host is a charismatic, bombastic stage presence, and because she textures the comedy of ageing with moral indignation alongside the physical indignity. Burch sets the scene by placing herself generationally, holding up her own gen X experi...

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