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A coroner has called on the leadership of the Jehovah's Witnesses to review the ban on blood transfusions after a death under circumstances he described as "graphically illustrating the consequence of rigid adherence to that doctrine."
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Columbus -
A mix-up by an Ohio coroner's office that resulted in the cremation of the wrong child was resolved by the Franklin County Commission who approved an agreement to pay $68,000 to the distraught parents of both the deceased children.
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Leicester -
An inquest into the death of a 64-year old man from Lincolnshire, England has found that his death was in part caused by a medical swab left inside of him after surgery.
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San Mateo -
A state appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit by a mother who says the county coroner kept her son's heart without her consent after an autopsy. It was months after he was buried before she found out his heart had been taken from him.
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Columbus -
An Ohio Coroner's Office once again mixed up two bodies. Grieving parents, who had picked out a white tuxedo to bury their son were visited by the Coroner Sunday and given the devastating news "their baby boy had mistakenly been cremated."
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Demands on coroners’ offices across the country are reaching a near crisis, with more families suffering from bad economic times, they are unable to claim bodies of loved ones and leaving cremations up to county coroners.
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Forty Los Angeles County coroner’s investigators are petitioning the County Board of Supervisors for permission to pack heat while investing crime scenes and notifying next of kin as is done in five other California Counties.
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New York City medical examiner office released their report today and said Hollywood actor Heath Ledger died because of accidental prescription drug abuse. The various drugs he took at the same time produced a toxic effect leading to his death.
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The 29-year-old woman was found dead in her motel room in Augusta, Georgia on New Year's Eve. Her body, along with all of her personal effects were delivered to Deputy Coroner 43-year-old Charlena Graham. Gift cards totalling $400.00 went missing.
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New Indiana law now in effect July 1,2007. This "next-of-kin" law has came about because of the death of pregnant Christian Melcher,23, and her son Jaiden Melcher, 11 months, they were both murdered by her husband Zachariah Melcher.
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