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Washington — Although the Federal Emergency Management Agency denied Puerto Rico's request to dispatch forensic units to Puerto Rico to help process a mounting backlog of bodies, the island's government has received a much-need reprieve. The fiscal board which controls spending in the U.S. territory will allow Gov. Ricardo Rosselló to use $1.5 million in funding to curtail the backlog in the island's morgue. …(snip) ...he FEMA official said these issues could be not be "attributed" to the natural disasters that struck the island, which triggered the first DMORT deployment. "These and the other courses of action ... address systemic...

..... Azariya, who is currently being tried for the death of a wounded terrorist, fired one round at the assailant after he had been neutralized, claiming that he feared the terrorist was attempting to activate an explosive device. It has hitherto been assumed that it was the bullet fired by Azariya that killed the wounded terrorist and heis accused of manslaughter. A new report, however, revealed by Channel 1 Wednesday evening suggests otherwise. According to the report produced by Professor Yehuda Hiss, a veteran pathologist who formerly headed the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute, the terrorist in question was not killed...

PITTSBURGH - Celebrity pathologist Cyril Wecht used government employees as secretaries, gofers and chauffeurs for himself and his private business while working as Allegheny County's medical examiner and coroner, prosecutors said Monday at the start of Wecht's trial. Wecht, 76, is charged with 41 counts, including wire fraud, mail fraud and theft. He has denied wrongdoing, and his attorneys have maintained that the charges are politically motivated. "In plain English, what he did was he stole, and he did it for the same reasons people have stolen for thousands of years: so he could make more money and because he...

Frederick T. Zugibe, M.S., M.D., Ph.D., FCAP,  FACC,  FAAFS      HOMECONTACT FORENSIC PATHOLOGY & MEDICINE Biography Publications News Public Health Psychotropic  Drugs Study   CRUCIFIXION and SHROUD STUDIES Crucifixion & Shroud Involvement Barbet Revisited Man of the Shroud was Washed Texas Lecture Paris  Lecture Turin 2000 Lecture MISCELLANEOUS: The Code for Human Life                                                          THE CODE FOR HUMAN LIFE  [Reprinted from the Catholic Answer 9: 40-45,1996]     A fertilized human egg at the moment of Conception, is the opinion of the creator that a human life at that instant, must begin.... F. Zugibe    ...

MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH Questions raised about Terri's collapse Celebrated forensic pathologist says 1990 injuries should be investigated Posted: October 26, 2003 5:45 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com A world-renowned forensic pathologist with over 40 years experience as a medical examiner, is challenging the official version of early events in the Terri-Schindler Schiavo case, providing the parents of the brain-disabled woman with powerful ammunition in their battle to save their daughter's life from her court-ordered starvation death. Interviewed on the Fox News Channel, Michael Baden, co-director of the Investigative Unit of New York State Police in Albany and former...

Pathologist helps clear N.J. cop in wife's death Thursday, December 05, 2002 By JOHN CURRAN Associated Press MAYS LANDING - A police officer accused of suffocating his wife was cleared Wednesday after prosecutors acknowledged she died of coronary artery failure. A medical examiner had called her death a homicide and listed the cause of death as asphyxiation. "It was the most disgraceful thing," said Officer James Andros III. "I can't imagine how it ever happened." Andros, 34, was charged with murder in the March 31, 2001, death of his wife, Ellen, who was found dead by her husband after he...