Three funeral directors sold 244 corpses for $1,000 (€710) each to a New York businessman who trafficked in the resale of often-diseased body parts, a court heard.

LEADERS of the Philadelphia Archdiocese including two cardinals concealed sexual abuse by Catholic priests for four decades, a US grand jury has found, but no criminal charges can be brought against the church or its clergy because of the limits of state law.

Leaders of the Philadelphia Archdiocese including two cardinals concealed sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests for four decades, a US grand jury has found, but no criminal charges can be brought against the church or its clergy because of the limits of state law.

Two Philadelphia policewomen sent an obscenity-riddled anthrax hoax from their patrol car computer to every police car and dispatch centre in the city.