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By JESSE BEDAYN (Associated Press/Report for America) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A Colorado judge on Thursday granted a defense request to delay the criminal case against two Colorado funeral home operators accused of letting nearly 200 corpses decay, in some cases for years, angering some families of the deceased who are eager for the case to be resolved. Jon and Carie Hallford are now scheduled to enter pleas to the numerous felony charges they face in June, with a tentative trial date in October. That would be a year…

Groundbreaking observations by a Cornell-led team reveal repeated energetic flares from a stellar corpse following a star’s explosion, challenging existing theories about stellar deaths and highlighting the possible role of black holes or neutron stars in such rare, intense phenomena.A distant star’s explosive demise left behind an active stellar corpse, which is believed to be the source of multiple energetic flares detected over several months. This occurrence, a phenomenon astronomers had never seen before, was…

Melinda Bettencourt was still in her nightgown when the police showed up at the door. It was a slow Saturday morning last fall, but her heart raced when she heard the uneasy tone in the officer’s voice.The Fresno woman knew her youngest daughter, Amanda Bews, had been struggling for years. After battling a painful nerve condition, the 29-year-old started using drugs and had taken to living on the street. Eventually Bettencourt lost track of her. So when men with badges showed up at her home, Bettencourt feared she knew…

I’m a superstar at the cracker factory Corpse Killer on the Sega 32X feels like the ultimate luxury game. You were already a rich kid if you owned Sega’s 32-bit Genesis/Mega Drive add-on, but to also have a Sega CD? Gosh, your parents must be pretty big wheels down at the cracker factory. But those were the requirements for Corpse Killer on 32X. It was right there on the cover of the game: Sega CD 32X. You needed both of the system’s expensive attachments to play this super-deluxe version. Otherwise, you had to just buy…

Amy Spada stepped out her front door in Monrovia on Sunday morning and, to her horror, found a corpse on the lawn.It was enormous. It was covered with a sheet. It was cordoned off with police tape. And, perhaps strangest of all, it was a bear.That was around 7 a.m. Police assured her the California Department of Fish and Wildlife would come get it, but by 7 p.m. the remains of the animal were still lying there.Finding the bear was “horrible, just horrible,” Spada said. But by the afternoon, the situation seemed even more…

Grant Morrison is kicking off a 13-part story, Partially Naked Came the Corpse! from Ahoy Comics in September in the "exquisite corpse" style.Grant Morrison is kicking off a thirteen-part story, Partially Naked Came the Corpse! being initially serialised in the upcoming Project Cryptid anthology, launching from Ahoy Comics in September, A prose story, it is created in the "exquisite corpse" style in which successive authors take on successive chapters of a story. Subsequent episodes of Partially Naked Came the Corpse!…

The madness of the Hong Kong property market takes centre stage in this goofy Cantonese-language comedy, set almost entirely over the course of one chaotic night in a luxury high-rise apartment block. Directed by Ho Cheuk-tin, it imagines how a bunch of ordinary Hongkongers would handle the unexplained appearance of a very naked and very dead man in their building.Proceedings kick off when Ming (Wong You-nam) is having dinner with his wife (Jennifer Yu) in the apartment owned by his penny-pinching mother-in-law (Teresa…

Image via Marvel Studios The next Marvel movie on its way is Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, but writer/director James Gunn isn’t quite ready to give up its secrets just yet — unless you believe the conspiracy theorists, that is. Elsewhere, a long-plagued Phase Six project is finally getting somewhere, after allegedly throwing off the dead weight of a failed Phase Four franchise-starter. Although if it’s crossovers you’re after, Deadpool 3 looks to have us covered. Let’s start… Blade allegedly erasing an…

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the Butterfly Nebula which shows layers of gas being ejected from a star that has exhausted its nuclear fuel. According to a tweet by Hubble, eventually this nebula will fade and leave behind a stellar corpse known as a white dwarf. "This structure may look like a cosmic butterfly unfurling its celestial wings, but there's nothing gentle or delicate about this massive blowout. In Caldwell 69, also cataloged as NGC 6302 and commonly known as the Butterfly or Bug Nebula,…

What if Hitler’s body hadn’t been cremated in Berlin by the SS? That alt-history teaser is the starting point for Ben Parker’s action thriller, which posits a tug of war over the corpse between a Soviet unit escorting it back to Stalin and pro-Nazi partisans hellbent on recovering it. Taking place in the Polish forests in the dying days of the second world war, Burial has an ambitious scope and a rueful sense of war’s barrenness – so it’s a shame it can’t unwrap its formaldehyde-steeped central conceit into something…