Prosecutors have DNA tests and hair samples. They have testimony about "the smell of death" in the trunk of the suspect's car. ...more

October 16, 2008

A missing 3-year-old girl's decomposing body was likely in the trunk of her arrested mother's car, the sheriff's office said Monday. ...more

September 2, 2008

ORLANDO - A missing 3-year-old girl's decomposing body was likely in the trunk of her arrested mother's car, the lead detective in the case said. ...more

September 1, 2008

My 19-year-old part-Siamese cat meows excessively for no reason. She stands at the door meowing. If I put her outside, in a minute she's at the door again meowing to come back in the house. The vet examined her and found nothing wrong. Spraying her with water doesn't seem to help. She's also been vomiting more often. What do you make of this? - P.P., Batavia, NY ...more

May 25, 2008

Like cattle being prepared for slaughter, some native children captured by the Inca were fattened up for months before being ritually sacrificed to the gods, a sequence of events calculated to elevate the victims' value to the gods and to strike fear into subjugated peoples, British researchers reported this week. ...more

October 6, 2007

Attacking several tons of woolly mammoth with stone-tipped spears must have taken extraordinary courage - and ancient people left paintings to prove they did it. ...more

September 30, 2007