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LiLo Skips Community Service Again?

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:08:57 CDT

Apparently being led out of court in handcuffs and thrown back, albeit briefly, in jail was still not enough to teach Lindsay Lohan how to actually show up for her court-ordered community service. Lohan, who was ordered by the judge yesterday to perform community service at the county morgue until...

Doc Sends Woman to Morgue—Alive

Polly Davis Doig — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:10:53 CDT

Some of us have bad days at work, and then some of us mistakenly send perfectly alive people to the morgue: Such is the case of 62-year-old Brazilian Rosa Celestrino de Assis, who made the grave mistake of showing no vital signs while being treated for pneumonia, reports the AFP...

Cash-Strapped Detroit Outsources Autopsies

Kevin Spak — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:30:05 CDT

With bodies piling up and funding disappearing, Detroit has decided to save some money by outsourcing its morgue operations to the University of Michigan, Bloomberg reports. Detroit’s morgue is unusually busy, with five pathologists performing autopsies on 2,400 corpses a year. Earlier this year, it had 185 bodies stacked...

Grandpa Wakes Up Screaming in Morgue

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:00:00 CDT

A South African grandfather is apparently just fine after spending 21 hours inside a morgue—but we're guessing family dinners are going to be awkward for a while. His family assumed he was dead when they were unable to wake him up, and called for an undertaker. But he later...

LiLo: Not Dead Yet, but Going to Morgue

Polly Davis Doig — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:12:00 CDT

Community service is never glamorous, but for Lindsay Lohan, paying her debt to society is going to be especially gruesome: The actress will be doing part of her community service—120 hours, to be exact—at the LA County Department of Coroner, reports People. "She won't be handling any dead...

The Scary Truth About America's Morgues

Evann Gastaldo — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 13:30:05 CST

Misplaced bones and bodies, overlooked bullet holes, corpses cremated before an investigation was complete: Most real morgues bear little resemblance to the shiny, high-tech world of CSI ’s labs, a new investigation reveals. ProPublica , Frontline , and NPR took a yearlong look at the country’s coroner and medical examiner offices and...

Jackson's Body Released to Family

Harry Kimball — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:17:41 CDT

Michael Jackson’s body has been released to his family, Reuters reports. The family is said to be meeting at Jackson’s parents’ home to discuss funeral arrangements, but no plans have been released to the public. The body was taken to a mortuary from the morgue after an autopsy failed to...

In Mexico, No Room at the Morgue

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:55:56 CDT

As Mexico's drug war erupted in Ciudad Juarez, the bloody results inevitably ended up in one place—the city's overwhelmed morgue. Some 2,300 victims of violence rolled through its doors last year, reports the AP, a flood of death that has resulted in stacked cadavers and plans to double...

Judge Sends Lohan to the Morgue

Sam Biddle — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:47:42 CST

Glamorous, it ain't. Lindsay Lohan will begin working at a morgue as punishment for her most recent drunken driving conviction, the AP reports. Lohan will put in two days of community service at the morgue and another two in a hospital emergency room. The court-ordered program is aimed to illustrate...