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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Graduate dental school students and a top University of Connecticut orthodontics professor took a selfie with two severed heads used for medical research at a training workshop at Yale University last year — an episode Yale officials called "disturbing" and "inexcusable." The selfie was taken in June at the Yale School of Medicine during the 2017 DePuy Synthes Future Leaders Workshop, which focused on dental-related facial deformities.The Associated Press obtained a copy of the photo from a person who received it through a private group chat. That person, who demanded anonymity because of potential harm to...

Brutal, but true, the little-known account of the U.S. Army paying for beheadings during the ferocious Apache Wars.

FIVE severed human heads were thrown onto a dance floor in a crowded disco in western Mexico, officials said. Authorities blamed the grisly scene on rival drug gangs. “Hooded men dressed in black stormed into a bar, fired into the air and threw down five heads,” said Rosaura Trujillo, a spokeswoman for the Michoacan state prosecutor's office. The men also left a card with the message: “The family does not kill for money. It does not kill women. It does not kill innocents. It kills only those who deserve to die. Everyone take note - this is divine justice.” According...

Fla. anglers fish human head out of Atlantic Coast Guard, FBI investigating connection to missing Cuban migrants ESPNOutdoors.com staff — Aug. 27, 2002 FORT PIERCE, Fla. — A Fort Pierce man out fishing with his son and a friend made a gruesome discovery in the waters of the Atlantic — a human head. Paul Trabulsy found the dismembered body part Friday, Aug. 23, about 22 miles east of Fort Pierce Inlet. The men used a gaff to fish the head out of the water and placed it in a garbage bag. Then they kept right on fishing. “ We didn't...