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He was paid to cremate their pets. He’s accused of tossing them in landfills.
A funeral home owner in Pittsburgh was charged with deceiving more than 6,500 pet owners who paid for their animals to be buried or cremated, only to have the remains thrown in a landfill or be given the ashes of unknown animals instead, state prosecutors said.

Ultraconservatives are pushing for a pope like them. It might not happen.
ROME – In the crush of Catholic Church news in the week since Pope Francis died, a theme keeps appearing, in social media memes and quotes from the commentariat: hope, even optimism, that the next pontiff will be a true conservative, someone from the ranks of what was a passionate traditionalist opposition to Pope Francis.

Experimental cancer drugs found to help some patients avoid surgery
The results from an ambitious cancer study are giving hope that immunotherapy drugs alone can treat some gastrointestinal tumours, eliminating the need for severe, life-altering surgeries and other harsh therapies.

What to know to save a life: The key to cardiac arrest survival
When a woman collapsed on an escalator at the Buffalo airport last June, Phil Clough knew what to do. He and another bystander put her flat on her back and checked her pulse (faint) and her breathing (shallow and erratic).

Trial to begin for woman accused of killing 3 with poisonous mushroom lunch
A woman hosted a lunch for her in-laws at her home in Leongatha, a town of less than 6,000 people in regional Australia. Afterward, four of the guests grew ill with similar symptoms and three died. Police allege it was murder and that the weapon was the meal, which they believe had been intentionally laced with poisonous death cap mushrooms.
