After five years fielding thousands of calls to one of rock 'n' roll's most celebrated phone numbers, disc jockey Spencer Potter is hanging up on Jenny.
Her seven digits are familiar to anyone who paid attention to pop music in the early 1980s: 867-5309, immortalized by the band Tommy Tutone.
Potter and his roommates requested the number on a lark for their home phone in northern New Jersey. They got it, along with about 30 to 40 calls a day...
--Yahoo! News
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Monday, May 05, 2008
Families sue undertakers in body parts scandal
Families who claim the corpses of more than 1,000 relatives were dismembered and sold in an illegal body-parts scandal sued funeral directors and others on Tuesday.
The class action suit represents hundreds of people who claim their relatives' body parts were harvested for medical use without their consent.
It charges seven individuals, and the funeral homes and human tissue services with which they worked, with conspiracy, negligence and the intentional infliction of emotional distress.
The seven were indicted by a grand jury last September and accused of harvesting bones, skin and tendons in unsanitary conditions, and selling them to hospitals with the risk that they could infect patients who received them.
The defendants allegedly made $3.8 million from sale of body parts obtained in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey between February 2004 and September 2005 in an operation that was "ghoulish, greedy, dangerous and criminal," the grand jury's report said.
In all, the scheme took tissue from 1,007 bodies, including 244 from Philadelphia funeral homes...
--Reuters
The class action suit represents hundreds of people who claim their relatives' body parts were harvested for medical use without their consent.
It charges seven individuals, and the funeral homes and human tissue services with which they worked, with conspiracy, negligence and the intentional infliction of emotional distress.
The seven were indicted by a grand jury last September and accused of harvesting bones, skin and tendons in unsanitary conditions, and selling them to hospitals with the risk that they could infect patients who received them.
The defendants allegedly made $3.8 million from sale of body parts obtained in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey between February 2004 and September 2005 in an operation that was "ghoulish, greedy, dangerous and criminal," the grand jury's report said.
In all, the scheme took tissue from 1,007 bodies, including 244 from Philadelphia funeral homes...
--Reuters
Thursday, April 05, 2007
$17K found under old NJ slot machines
It's the casino equivalent of reaching under your couch cushions and finding a buck or so in loose change.
Only the take at the former Sands Casino Hotel topped $17,000 worth of coins that fell under or around slot machines over the past three decades.
The casino was closed last November and will be torn down later this year to make way for a new gambling hall. The 2,350 machines had not been moved in the 26 years the Sands operated in Atlantic City, so workers removing them expected to find some stray cash.
Just how much, however, was a surprise. It was $17,193.34, to be exact...
ABC NewsWednesday, March 28, 2007
N.J. beach closed after WWII-era explosives found
SURF CITY, N.J. -- A mile-long stretch of beach in Ocean County was closed after an unseen danger was unearthed: bombs and other munitions dating back to World War II.
Several unexploded fuses and artillery shell adapters were found in sand recently pumped into Surf City.
The explosives were found in newly placed beach fill in the area between 17th and 24th streets. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers halted the project and closed the beaches after the discovery was made three weeks ago.Authorities have posted danger signs at the beaches and blocked off the entrances. Security guards patrol the area around the clock...
--NBC10.com
Several unexploded fuses and artillery shell adapters were found in sand recently pumped into Surf City.
The explosives were found in newly placed beach fill in the area between 17th and 24th streets. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers halted the project and closed the beaches after the discovery was made three weeks ago.Authorities have posted danger signs at the beaches and blocked off the entrances. Security guards patrol the area around the clock...
--NBC10.com
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