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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican cook killed his drinking buddy, cut up his body and boiled him in herbs, according to police who fear he may have been turning him into tamales. AP Photo Prosecutors said on Wednesday they had arrested Carlos Machuca, a tamale-maker, at his home in the western city of Morelia on Tuesday, after receiving an anonymous phone tip. Officers found a man's mutilated corpse in the living room and body parts simmering in aluminum saucepans on the patio, state prosecutors told Reuters. "We saw the flesh and the tamales, and our first impression was that...

A zoo owner is being investigated over allegations he ate his own wild animals. It is suspected Joerg Schlechte may have used the zoo as his personal larder. He has already been fined for roasting pot-bellied pigs during a drunken barbeque. But now police in Germany are looking into the fate of a host of missing animals. They include a small buffalo, rabbits, donkeys, goats, racoons, parrots, a wild boar and even three Shetland ponies. The animals were found missing when the zoo in Meissen, eastern Germany, was taken over by new owners. Schlechte claims he gave the animals to...

Wood-chipper slaughter stirs debate Animal activists push for changes By NADA EL SAWY Associated Press LOS ANGELES -- The owners of a Southern California egg farm insist they did nothing wrong when they slaughtered 30,000 chickens, quarantined because of a virus, by throwing them into wood chippers. State authorities agreed and decided not to file animal cruelty charges. That decision has incensed animal-rights advocates -- and some producers -- who say it's an example of the need for stricter laws and enforcement to stop what they consider inhumane slaughter of livestock. "It's not what we do," said Paul Bahan, owner...

Mexican Bean Product Recalled Call (956) 726-3633 For More Information Apr 9, 2003 10:25 pm US/Eastern WASHINGTON (AP) A Texas firm has recalled canned charro beans with meat that entered the country without a required food safety inspection, the Agriculture Department said Wednesday. Vilore Foods of Laredo, Texas recalled 14.1-ounce cans of "La Sierra Autentica Cocina Mexicana CHARRO BEANS." The products were distributed to retail stores nationwide. The meat portion of the product originated from an establishment that is not approved for export to the United States. These products were not presented to the department's Food Safety and Inspection Service...

Quick march: volunteers of the Jerusalem Army, an Iraqi civilian defence unit, at yesterday's parade in Mosul. They had all been given the day off work AS THE morning chill rose from the River Tigris in Iraq’s most ethnically mixed city, the units began assembling, pulling on white gloves and proudly adjusting military tunics. Their ranks included grandfathers in ancient helmets, housewives trained to use machineguns, Beduin tribesmen, adolescent cadets marching behind their fathers, Kurds, Assyrian Christians and Sunni Muslims. Everyone got the day off work. All said they were marching in support of President Saddam Hussein and to...

<p>Kathie Lee Gifford is grieving for her beloved dog, Chardonnay, who was killed near the family’s Connecticut home by a coyote who pounced on the petite pooch. Tuesday’s attack on the 14-year-old Bichon Frise in the back yard of the Gifford home in Riverside, Conn., highlights the Greenwich suburb’s growing coyote problem.</p>

No evidence that accused cannibal had more than one victimPolice continue to dig up gardens at man's estate, say he had sought to meet other men through personal ads By Michael Gavin Police say extensive investigations have revealed no indication that a Hesse man alleged to have engaged in cannibalism had any collaborators, or more than one victim. Investigators, who were removing walls in the man's home on Thursday, dismissed reports suggesting otherwise as “speculation“ by some sensation-seeking news media. Police have dug up much of the home's large garden since frozen body parts from a 42-year-old man, who is...

Since I am approaching my one year anniversary of being a "freeper" and since I have never contributed a dime to FR, jim or the republican party, I am going to beat the powers to be at FR and voluntarily leave, rather than have them come up with one of the cock and bull stories to ban me. Been fun,Bye