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      Owner of Colorado funeral home and his wife arrested after 189 bodies found

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 8 November - 20:11

    The decaying corpses were discovered after reports of ‘abhorrent smells’ inside company’s rundown building last month

    The owner of a Colorado funeral home and his wife were arrested on Wednesday after the decaying remains of at least 189 people were recently found at his facility.

    Jon and Carie Hallford were arrested in Wagoner, Oklahoma, on suspicion of four felonies – abuse of a corpse, theft, money laundering and forgery – the district attorney, Michael Allen, said in a news release after at least some of the aggrieved families were told.

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      Stench leads officials to 189 rotting corpses at taxidermist’s funeral home

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 18 October, 2023 - 22:56

    Medical examiner or forensic scientist with dead man's corpse in morgue.

    Enlarge / Medical examiner or forensic scientist with dead man's corpse in morgue. (credit: Getty Images )

    Authorities on Tuesday reported removing the improperly stored remains of at least 189 people from a southern Colorado funeral home where the owner said he practiced taxidermy.

    The home, the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colorado, had claimed to conduct environmentally friendly "green" burials. It first came to the attention of local authorities after reports of a putrid smell pouring from the company's neglected building. On October 4, local and federal authorities executed a search warrant and initially found 115 improperly stored bodies at the facility, which is around 100 miles south of Denver and sits in Fremont County.

    That same day, a Colorado state official— Zen Mayhugh, the program director of the Office Funeral Home and Crematory Registration—spoke directly with the owner and operator of Return to Nature, Jon Hallford. In the conversation, Hallford acknowledged that he had a "problem" at the facility and claimed he practiced taxidermy there.

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      How a Government Shutdown Could Impact National Parks

      news.movim.eu / TheNewYorkTimes · Thursday, 28 September, 2023 - 19:58


    People, businesses and towns relying on park tourism worry the fourth shutdown in a decade could crush them if Congress can’t reach a deal to keep the government running.
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      Biden administration reverses Trump decision to relocate US Space Command

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 1 August, 2023 - 17:44

    A US Space Command flag is displayed outside the White House during a 2019 ceremony announcing the command's re-establishment.

    Enlarge / A US Space Command flag is displayed outside the White House during a 2019 ceremony announcing the command's re-establishment. (credit: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images )

    President Biden plans to keep the headquarters of US Space Command in Colorado Springs and not move it to Alabama as the Air Force proposed under the Trump administration in 2021.

    It took two-and-a-half years for the decision to come down from the White House, following what the Pentagon said was a "thorough and deliberate evaluation process."

    "Locating Headquarters US Space Command in Colorado Springs ultimately ensures peak readiness in the space domain for our nation during a critical period," said Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder, the Pentagon's press secretary. "It will also enable the command to most effectively plan, execute and integrate military spacepower into multi-domain global operations in order to deter aggression and defend national interests."

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      Colorado kills law that made it harder for cities to offer Internet service

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 2 May, 2023 - 20:31

    Two large spools of fiber conduits, which are used to install fiber cables underground.

    Enlarge / Spools of fiber conduits for broadband network construction. (credit: Getty Images | Akchamczuk)

    Colorado yesterday eliminated an 18-year-old state law that made it harder for cities and towns to offer broadband Internet service. The 2005 law required local governments to hold an election before offering cable television or telecommunications service, a process that pitted city and town leaders against well-funded broadband industry lobbying campaigns.

    Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, signed a bill to eliminate that law yesterday. The bill had been approved by the State House in a 48-14 vote and in the Senate by a 31-4 vote. Both chambers have Democratic majorities, but the votes didn't go entirely along party lines; all of the "no" votes came from Republicans, but other Republicans joined Democrats in approving the bill.

    The bill signed by Polis "gives local governments the authority to provide broadband service, either on their own or by partnering with industry service providers, without holding a local election," the Governor's Office of Information Technology said .

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      Paul Rudd est devenu un véritable superhéros pour cet écolier américain

      news.movim.eu / HuffingtonPost · Saturday, 9 July, 2022 - 21:48 · 2 minutes

    Cet écolier persécuté par sa classe a gagné le meilleur soutien qu'il soit (photo de juin 2015 à Los Angeles) Cet écolier persécuté par sa classe a gagné le meilleur soutien qu'il soit (photo de juin 2015 à Los Angeles)

    PEOPLE - Ça n’effacera pas les moqueries et le harcèlement, mais c’est une attention qui apporte un rayon d’espoir. L’acteur américain Paul Rudd envoyé à un élève de 12 ans, persécuté par ses camarades de classe , une lettre pour lui signifier tout son soutien.

    Brody Ridder, qui vit au Colorado, a reçu la missive de la star et a même pu discuter avec elle par FaceTime après que sa mère avait posté sur Facebook que je garçon était rentrée de son dernier jour de classe avec seulement deux messages de camarades dans son “Yearbook”. Aux États-Unis, la tradition veut que ce livret soit signé en fin d’année par tous les amis et connaissances afin de se souhaiter un bon été.

    Dans le message Facebook, rapidement devenu viral, la maman de Brody expliquait que ce dernier avait même apposé sa propre signature dans son livre, se souhaitant “de se faire plus d’amis”. Une histoire qui a attiré l’attention de Paul Rudd qui a contacté la famille et organisé un appel en visio avec l’enfant pour discuter de leurs passions communes puis lui a envoyé un casque de son personnage d’ Ant-Man dans l’univers Marvel , ainsi qu’une lettre.

    “Cher Brody, c’était super de te parler la dernière fois. Il est important que tu te rappelles que même quand la vie est dure, les choses finissent par s’arranger. (...) IL y a plein de personnes qui t’aiment et pensent que tu es ultra cool, dont moi! J’ai hâte de voir les choses incroyables que tu vas accomplir”, écrit l’acteur de 53 ans qui était récemment à l’affiche du nouveau Ghostbusters .

    Un geste qui a “rempli de joie” le garçon, a raconté sa mère au journal The Independent , et qui a amené de nombreux élèves hors de sa classe à venir signer son Yearbook et lui souhaiter plein de bonnes choses, rapporte le Washington Post.

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