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"Jacqui Goddard describes the huge operation that is swinging into action in the little town of St Gabriel to store the dead from the flood-ravaged city of New Orleans"

LOUISBURG, N.C. -- Relatives say a North Carolina man who was hit by a car and mistakenly declared dead has started talking again. Larry Green was hit by a car in January as he walked home after buying beer at a grocery store. He was examined on the scene by paramedics and a medical examiner, declared dead and his body taken to a morgue. More than two hours after the accident, the same medical examiner realized Green was still alive. He was hospitalized for two months after suffering a severe head injury, broken leg and other injuries. He's been in...

BOSTON - The bodies of two infants who died while in the care of a religious sect remain unclaimed in a morgue more than three years after they were exhumed from a makeshift grave. The remains of Samuel Robidoux and Jeremiah Corneau are at the state medical examiner's office because nobody from either family has tried to claim them, prosecutor Walter Shea said in an interview in Friday's Boston Herald. The children's parents are part of a small sect called the Body, which rejects modern medicine and government. Jacques Robidoux, who said he was following instructions from God when he...

Detectives investigating the desecration of a Muslim woman's body that was covered with bacon as it lay in a hospital morgue have arrested three men and discovered a cache of 2,000 photographs of corpses.Another desecration of a corpse at Hillingdon Hospital mortuary in west London in 1996 - when the body was marked by a pen - has also emerged during the inquiry by Scotland Yard .Neither the family of the first victim or the police were notified at the time of the desecration. The hospital has apologised to the woman's family, who are said to be "very distressed", and...

Hundreds of human remains found in makeshift morgue Hundreds of human remains have been discovered in a "makeshift morgue" by British soldiers in southern Iraq. The skulls, bundles of bone in strips of military uniform, were dumped in plastic bags and unsealed hardboard coffins in an abandoned Iraqi military base on the outskirts of Al Zubayr. It was impossible to say how long the remains had lain there but the discovery will now be investigated by forensic specialists as possible evidence of atrocities perpetrated by the Iraqi regime.The coffins were stacked five deep in a warehouse, and a neighbouring...

'No hoax' - bomb found outside county morgue By Yolanda Jones yojones@gomemphis.com A bomb and two smaller explosive-type devices were found Wednesday morning in the stairwell outside of the Shelby County Regional Forensic Center on Madison, which houses the morgue and the Medical Examiner's Office. "This was no hoax," said Gene Marquez, resident agent in charge of the Memphis federal Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms office. "This was the real deal." A cleaning man found the devices sitting in an aluminum pan on the west side of the building at 1060 Madison about 10 a.m. He said he thought it was...