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(CNN)An arrest has been made in the death of a New Jersey kindergarten teacher found buried in a shallow grave, and a warrant has been issued for a second person in connection with her death, prosecutors said Friday.Cesar Santana, 36, was arrested in the early hours of Friday morning at a motel in Miami, Florida, by US Marshals, said the Hudson County Prosecutors Office, which had announced the arrest on Twitter earlier Friday without releasing the name.

Human remains discovered in Lake Mead in October have been identified as a 39-year-old man who is believed to have drowned in the reservoir nearly five decades ago, officials announced Tuesday.Medical examiners determined the remains belong to Donald Smith, a Las Vegas resident who reportedly drowned in April 1974, the Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner said in a release.

Warrior Girl Unearthed is a gripping follow-up to Angeline Boulley's much-lauded debut, Firekeeper's Daughter.Here, we return to Sugar Island and meet the next generation of girls in the Firekeeper family.High school student Perry had a glorious Summer of Slack all planned out, full of fishing, teasing her go-getter twin sister Pauline, and generally enjoying life.

Lars Kraume's Measures of Men tells the story of a German ethnologist who travels to what was German South West Africa in the early 1900s to study the country's indigenous peoples and harvest their skulls.The film was released in German cinemas on March 23th and has also been the subject of special screenings, including in schools and the Bundestag lower house of parliament.

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing an opinion piece that claims "AI is putting our jobs as architects unquestionably at risk".In the opinion piece, AI author and Florida International University professor Neil Leach writes "architects urgently need to get to grips with the existential threat posed by AI" or risk "sleepwalking into oblivion".

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The family of Leah Croucher have said her funeral procession will be public to give people an opportunity to pay their respects.Ms Croucher was a missing person for more than three years before police confirmed in October 2022 that human remains found in the loft space at a house in Furzton, Milton Keynes, belonged to the 19-year-old.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The first fully-trained female dog handler for the Civil Defence has said she was stalking the K9 unit for years before finally picking up her qualification.

Mourners can pay their respects to Leah Croucher at a public funeral procession through her home city on Friday, just over four years since she went missing.Thames Valley Police said a cortege is due to depart from White Horse Drive, Emerson Valley, Milton Keynes, at approximately 10.50am, followed by a private service for friends and family in Crownhill Crematorium.

Chicago police said human remains were discovered Tuesday morning inside of a garbage bag left in a West Side alley.About 7 a.m., remains were discovered in a garbage bag left in an alley in the 4800 block of West Walton Street in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.Chicago police were conducting a death investigation pending autopsy results.

Three sets of human remains discovered in a remote area near Barstow last month are believed to be linked to a missing persons report filed in July, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.Authorities identified one of the victims as Enrique Saltos Gallegos, a 38-year-old resident of Nuevo in Riverside County who was reported missing in July, according to a sheriff's department news release.

Human remains have been found at a waste recycling centre in Leeds, police have said.Shortly before 10am on Monday, West Yorkshire Police received reports that human remains had been found at the site in Knowsthorpe Way.Officers attended the scene - located in an industrial estate about 3 miles south of Leeds city centre - to assess the remains and establish the circumstances, the force said in a statement.

Ohio investigators were trying to identify human remains found decades ago when a tip led them to identify the remains of another person found dead almost 200 miles away, officials said Monday.Investigators now believe they've identified both sets of remains, officials said.Old-fashioned detective work, modern DNA technology, and a serendipitous tip that was offered in one case but proved vital in another case have led to the identification of two John Does in northeast and central Ohio, a release from Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost's office reads.

LONDON Charles Byrne never wanted to end up in a museum.Byrne, who stood at least 7 feet 7 inches tall, had found fame and wealth in 18th-century Britain by showcasing himself as the Irish Giant.People from Edinburgh to London would pay to gawk at his height, and, legend has it, by the time he died at in 1783, at the age of 22, he had told his friends to bury him at sea to prevent surgeons or anatomists from obtaining his body.

Peter Pan, a dog that is part of a USAID rescue crew in Turkey, scrambles over piles of debris, sniffing for the scent of any survivors stuck inside.Jason Beaubien/NPR A U.S.-based search and rescue team that's flown to Turkey in response to the earthquakes has just one goal: to find people alive, days after the initial 7.8 magnitude quake struck the region on Monday, February 6. "We're here to effect the rescues of people deeply entombed in reinforced concrete structures," says John Morrison with USAID's Fairfax, Virginia International Urban Search and Rescue Team.

MediaNews Group/East Bay Times v/MediaNews Group via Getty Images "Skeletonized" human remains were discovered in a years-long unoccupied building at UC Berkeley's Clark Kerr Campus earlier this week, school officials announced.University police were notified of the remains on Tuesday, Jan. 10, a UCPD statement from the school's communications department said.

A man has been charged with murder after human remains were found in a pond on New Year's Eve.Essex Police said on Sunday that Lee Clark, 52, of Wedhey, Harlow, has been charged with killing 59-year-old Phillip Lewis, known as Scottish Phil, whose body was found in Oakwood Pond, Harlow.Clark will appear at Colchester Magistrates' Court on Monday.

Police have launched a murder investigation after human remains were found in a pond in Essex.Officers were called shortly before 2pm on Saturday after a member of the public reported a suspicious object in the water of Oakwood Pond in Harlow.Specialist forensic officers have since confirmed they are human remains.

Detectives investigating the death of a child in Birmingham have recovered what are believed to be human remains from a garden.Earlier this month West Midlands Police received reports that a child had died at an address on Clarence Road, Handsworth in 2020.Officers subsequently began a search at the property but said the current occupants of the home were not subject to the investigation.

Police investigating the death of a child have begun searching a garden after receiving information about the possible burial of human remains.West Midlands Police said the search operation at a property in Clarence Road, Handsworth, Birmingham, was not connected to the current occupants of the address.

A grandmother was left spooked after a human skull and dozens of bones were dumped in her garden.Ann Mathers called police after making the grim discovery which included several femurs and jaw bones scattered in her flowerbeds.The 88-year-old, who has lived in her end terrace house in Dudley, West Midlands, for more than 60 years, was said to be scared to death by the grave-robbing critters.

More human remains were found Friday in a gruesome Boston condo where police had already discovered a dead infant.Investigators discovered the "human fetus or infant" remains in a freezer Thursday while searching the South Boston apartment.Police did not say where in the apartment they discovered "what appears to be additional human remains" on Friday.

Human remains have been found in the search for a missing woman last seen 15 months ago.The Metropolitan Police said remains belonging to Norma Girolami have been found at a churchyard in north London.Girolami was 70 years old when she was last seen in August last year.The Met opened a murder investigation two months later.

A coroner is withholding the disclosure of the record of inquest relating to the prime suspect in the murder of teenager Leah Croucher, as police believe its release may seriously jeopardise the investigation.Neil Maxwell, a sex offender who killed himself while on the run from police, died in April 2019  two months after Leah, 19, vanished.

The family of Leah Croucher have said their hopes of finding her alive have been extinguished in the cruellest and harshest of ways after her body was found three years after she disappeared.In a statement issued through Thames Valley Police on Thursday, the 19-year-old's relatives paid tribute to the bright, funny young woman with a smile that lit up the room.

The parents of Leah Croucher have paid their first tribute to the teenager after she was found dead in a Milton Keynes loft more than three years since going missing.In a tribute to their bright, funny young daughter, the 19-year-old's family said they knew the heartbreaking news of her death would come one day but they are devastated to have been proven right.