Brothers charged with burying father alive

Brazil - Two brothers were charged with killing their father, a local Afro-Brazilian religious leader, by knocking him out with sleeping pills and then burying him alive. Antonio Valente Filho, chief of police of Timon, in Maranhao state, told Globo TV’s G1 website that the brothers, ages 18 and 21, confessed this week to planning the murder. They told police their father was a violent man who drank too much and didn’t accept their homosexuality, said Filho said.  More…

Baby chicks ground up alive

WASHINGTON - An undercover video shot by an animal rights group at an Iowa egg hatchery shows workers discarding unwanted chicks by sending them alive into a grinder, and other chicks falling through a sorting machine to die on the factory floor. Chicago-based Mercy for Animals said it shot the video at Hy-Line North America?s hatchery in Spencer, Iowa, over a two-week period.

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Odd News-Son Spots Dad on TV - 5 Years After Family ‘Cremated’ Him

Odd News-Son Spots Dad on TV - 5 Years After Family ‘Cremated’ Him

UK - A man spotted his father alive on television - five years after he thought he had cremated him. John Renehan's father, John Delaney, went missing in 2000. When a badly-decomposed body was found in bushes at Manchester Royal Infirmary in April 2003 - wearing similar clothes and with similar old wounds - police said it was his father. A coroner confirmed the identification and Mr Renehan and his family paid for a cremation and wake. But it has now emerged that 71-year-old Mr Delaney had been in a care home since 2000 after being found wandering dazed and confused in Oldham, Greater Manchester.....more