The judgement is unlikely to be paid out since the funeral home owners have been in financial trouble for years and face hundreds of criminal charges. FREMONT COUNTY, Colo. — The Colorado funeral home owners who allegedly stored 190 decaying bodies and sent grieving families fake ashes were ordered by a judge to pay $950 …
Biden said he had been briefed on preparations to support the criminal regime of Israel should it be attacked, while Secretary of State Antony Blinken said officials were working around the clock to prevent an escalation. Blinken’s remarks come while Washington in the past months has supplied the Israeli regime with numerous amounts of weapons …
A hearse and van sit outside the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colo., on Oct. 6, 2023. On Monday, a judge ordered the funeral home’s owners, Carie and Jon Hallford, to pay $950 million to families whose loved ones’ remains were mishandled. The funeral home promised a more natural way to be buried, …
A worrying pattern of an increasing number of localised but extreme rainfall events has emerged across India this monsoon season. One obvious reason is human-induced climate change, triggered by increasing emissions. Another, not so obvious, reason is poor localised governance coupled with a lack of adaptive strategy on the ground with electoral politics trumping the …
The housing market in Denver has cooled rapidly with prospective buyers shunning larger properties despite an increase in inventory, according to a report. Sales in the Colorado city, which saw a huge influx of new residents during COVID, dropped 5.2 percent in June and are down 4.7 percent across the year. While new listings have …
More than two years ago one of the “most important places in Europe” for wildlife was destroyed by fire. A blaze, started deliberately, ripped through 10 hectares of the Neston reedbed marshland on the Wirral Peninsula in March 2022. Three 15-year-old boys were handed nine-month referral orders for arson and damage of a site of …
Located in Praia Brava, a beach in the south of Brazil in Itajaí, Santa Catarina, this residence is the home of a couple and their three children who longed for open and relaxing living spaces that encouraged their family to spend more time together. The family tapped architect Simara Melo to transform the 5,210-square-foot home …
When Julie Ernst’s daughter was 8, she often played in a small stick fort behind their house. When Ernst went outside to get her daughter for dance class one day, she saw her “frosting” mud cupcakes. “This is so satisfying,” she heard her daughter quietly say to herself. “I’d never heard her say that about …
A 700,000-year-old arm bone found on an Indonesian island is shedding light on the evolution of Homo floresiensis1 — an ancient relative of modern humans nicknamed hobbit owing to its small stature. At just 88 millimetres long, the arm bone fragment belonged to the smallest adult hominin ever found. The discovery, published on 6 August …