Search for corpses in ghost town
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Frances Harrison meets Tamil Tiger teams clearing corpses in the northern Sri Lankan town of Mullaitivu.
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By Shanna Flowers, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Dec. 12--On one of the coldest afternoons of the year, as cars whizzed along Orange Avenue near the Roanoke Civic Center, Bob Hale stood obscured by trees as he surveyed the final resting places of certain Roanokers.
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If local legend is true, there are almost as many ghosts wandering the streets of the ancient English city of Exeter as there are people.
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By WILLIAM KATES  ROSCOE, N.Y. - Searchers found the body of an 81-year-old man and were searching for as many as six other people still missing Thursday after flash floods surged through the edge of the Catskill Mountains.
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Identifying human remains found in the disaster zone grows trickier.
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As the suburbs swell in some Southern states, developers must sometimes grapple with the problem of what to do when an old cemetery lies in the path of the backhoes.
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Decaying corpses are piling up in Indonesia&#39;s Aceh province, where up to 10,000 people are feared dead as a result of Sunday&#39;s earthquake and tsunamis.
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A search for a body in Strangford Lough, County Down, is due to resume on Tuesday.
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Huddled in hushed silence, an anxious crowd stood staring at the approaching motorboat. As six bloated corpses were pulled out and laid on the ground, the crisp morning air was shattered by the shrill wails of women who began to examine the bodies, in search of a missing family member.
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By Ad Crable  MASTEN GHOST TOWN, Lycoming County - Any deep-winter backpacking trip worth its salt begins with a hearty breakfast.
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The red light district of the quiet English town of Ipswich was deserted overnight as British police continued their probe into the murders of three prostitutes in the area, after discovering two more bodies.
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"Stalin's Ghost" (Simon &amp; Schuster, 333 pages, $26.95) &#151; Martin Cruz Smith: In Martin Cruz Smith's snowy Russia, the bodies only stay buried until the ground thaws. Senior Investigator Arkady Renko's problem is that he doesn't know when to stop digging once they appear.
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JENNER, Calif., Aug. 21 -- Authorities in this coastal town continued searching for clues Saturday in the shooting deaths of a young couple, and some residents said they feared for their own safety.
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Police in the Australian state of Victoria hope to solve missing person cases by exhuming bodies buried up to 50 years ago.
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By day, the streets of this densely populated Palestinian labyrinth are jammed with seething funeral processions and solemn mourning tents. But gradually, long before dusk, the camp is transformed into a ghost town, with civilians cowering in their apartments and masked gunmen darting through the shadows carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles and homemade bombs.
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What once was the thriving Iraqi city of Fallujah now is a virtual ghost town of bombed-out buildings and piles of rubble. Nearly five weeks after the fight for the city began, a fight in which more than 50
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By Katherine Rosenberg, Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.  Jun. 17--Authorities found two dead bodies at separate locations late Friday night and Saturday morning, and a homicide investigation has been launched into both, officials said.   Around 7 p.m.