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"The victim's legs were fused to the chair and her legs had to be physically separated from the foot rest portion of the chair leaving behind yellowish skin tissue," Independence police detectives said in an affidavit."

Jul 7, 10:26 AM EDT Court Reimburses Man for Watermelons RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- When Jackie L. Eley's pickup truck was repossessed, more than just her ride was taken away. The 130 watermelons in the truck bed also were repossessed. Revenge, though, has been sweet. The state Court of Appeals has ruled that the repo firm, Mid-East Acceptance Corp., must pay Eley $1,365 - three times the melons' value - as well as legal fees. Eley's truck was repossessed July 29, 2002, a day when the temperature would reach 98 degrees with 89 percent humidity. She had missed two payments....

TARAWA, Kiribati (AP) - On the beach at "Bloody Tarawa," where U.S. Marines died by the hundreds, the broken bottles, crushed boxes and plastic bags are now piling up by the millions. Rotting under the equatorial sun, the garbage of an open dump is spreading over a section of World War II's Red Beach, a strip of sand hallowed in American military history. It's a sign of the crisis of solid waste that threatens to overwhelm the tiny atolls of the Pacific, tropical "paradises" whose beauty already is often marred by layers of debris - rubbish with nowhere to go....

Corpse of homeless man lay rotting on Japanese city street for two months Justin McCurry in Tokyo Friday December 19, 2003 The Guardian (UK) For two months, the body of an elderly man was ignored by passersby as it lay rotting on a street corner in Osaka, a short walk from a department store and a big railway station. The police in Japan's second city said yesterday that the corpse, thought to be that of a homeless man in his late 60s or early 70s, had begun to decompose by the time the authorities were called in to take it...

Jonah Goldberg (archive)(printer-friendly version)May 3, 2002Free speech: rotting from the inside out On Wednesday, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced he was proposing legislation to make it difficult for child pornographers to manufacture "virtual porn." This came as a response to last month's Supreme Court decision that overturned portions of the Child Pornography Prevention Act. The court held that the government couldn't ban "virtual child porn" - i.e. animated or computer-generated depictions of very young children in sexually explicit situations or scenes of older kids made-up to look like young children. "The Supreme Court's legalization of computer-generated child pornography has created...