Thursday, August 7, 2014

Del. officials find remains of 9 Jonestown victims - Mississippi News Now





  • Stowaway arrested again at Los Angeles airport


    Stowaway arrested again at Los Angeles airport


    Thursday, August 7 2014 5:55 PM EDT2014-08-07 21:55:30 GMT




    The woman who flew from San Jose to Los Angeles without a boarding pass was a homeless loner who was briefly ordered into mental treatment earlier this year because of her past attempts to sneak aboard flights,...More >>

    A woman who flew from San Jose to Los Angeles without a boarding pass and has made repeated attempts to sneak aboard flights was arrested again Thursday at Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said.More >>



  • Outer edge of hurricane brings rain to Hawaii


    Outer edge of hurricane brings rain to Hawaii


    Thursday, August 7 2014 5:55 PM EDT2014-08-07 21:55:28 GMT




    Iselle was supposed to weaken as it slowly trudged west across the Pacific. It didn't - and now Hawaii is poised to take its first direct hurricane hit in 22 years.More >>

    The first hurricane expected to hit Hawaii in 22 years weakened slightly Thursday as its outer edges began to bring rain and wind to the Big Island, while residents and tourists prepared for a possible one-two punch as...More >>



  • 1st set of remains ID'd from Florida reform school


    1st set of remains ID'd from Florida reform school


    Thursday, August 7 2014 5:45 PM EDT2014-08-07 21:45:07 GMT


    University of South Florida researchers say they have used DNA testing for the first time to identify the remains of a boy buried at an unmarked grave at a reform school 74 years ago.More >>

    In December 1940, Owen Smith's mother wrote the superintendent of the then-Florida Industrial School for Boys about the welfare of her 14-year-old son, who had been sent there months earlier for being with a friend in...More >>








DOVER, Del. (AP) - Police say the cremated remains of nine victims of a 1978 mass cult suicide-murder in Jonestown, Guyana, have turned up in a former funeral home in Delaware.


Officials with the state Division of Forensic Science are working to identify all remains and to notify relatives.


The agency and Dover police said in a statement Thursday that the remains were discovered at the former Minus Funeral Home in Dover.


The division last week responded to a request to check the former funeral home after 38 containers of remains were discovered inside. Thirty-three containers were marked and identified. They spanned a period from about 1970 to the 1990s and included the Jonestown remains.


Bodies of 911 massacre victims were brought to Dover Air Force Base, home to the U.S. military's largest mortuary.


Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.




No comments:

Post a Comment