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Colorado funeral home owner faces sentencing for abusing 189 bodies
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado funeral home owner who stashed 189 decomposing bodies in a building over four years and gave grieving families fake ashes will be sentenced Friday on corpse abuse charges.
Jon Hallford owned Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado Springs with his then-wife Carie. They pleaded gu ... (full story)
Security concerns and skepticism are bursting the bubble of Moltbook, the viral AI social forum
You are not invited to join the latest social media platform that has the internet talking. In fact, no humans are, unless you can hijack the site and roleplay as AI, as some appear to be doing.
Moltbook is a new “social network” built exclusively for AI agents to make posts and interact with each other, and humans a ... (full story)
Fear in Minnesota's Somali community deepens, hampering progress on measles vaccination
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Public health officials and community leaders say that even before federal immigration authorities launched a crackdown in Minneapolis, a crisis was brewing.
Measles vaccination rates among the state's large Somali community had plummeted, with the myth that the shot causes autism spreading. Not even fou ... (full story)
A top Democrat wants to know if California laws are working. Lawmakers get to pick which ones
Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas claims he has a new way to hold state government accountable: A series of legislative hearings to examine how well state laws are working.
But which laws? State lawmakers who volunteered to participate in the initiative handpicked 13 laws enacted in the last decade, often laws they wrote themselves. ... (full story)
Study shows particle pollution from wildfire smoke was tied to 24,100 deaths per year in the US
Chronic exposure to pollution from wildfires has been linked to tens of thousands of deaths annually in the United States, according to a new study.
The paper, published last week in the journal Science Advances, found that from 2006 to 2020, long-term exposure to tiny particulates from wildfire smoke contributed to an average o ... (full story)