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PHILADELPHIA
Corpse case ends
A man who made millions of dollars by plundering hundreds of bodies sent to funeral homes and selling their often-diseased parts and tissues to medical companies pleaded guilty Friday to a raft of charges that could send him to prison for life. Michael Mastromarino, 44, pleaded guilty to hundreds of counts of abusing corpses, forgery, theft and other allegations stemming from an operation authorities say he ran with three funeral directors.
WASHINGTON
Jets avoid collision
Two airliners were one minute away from colliding when one of the planes turned away from the other over the Caribbean this week, federal authorities said Friday. The National Transportation Safety Board said it was investigating an incident in which a Delta Air Lines flight and a Russian-registered passenger jet were heading toward each other Thursday north of Puerto Rico when cockpit alarms went off. The NTSB said the pilot of the Russian plane — a Transaero Boeing 737 — descended 200 to 300 feet to avoid Delta Flight 485.
Museum to cut pay
At least 17 Smithsonian Institution executives with six-figure salaries will receive future pay cuts — many in the tens of thousands of dollars — under reforms adopted by the museum complex. According to figures released recently after a request by the Associated Press, the chief financial officer for the Smithsonian Institution could have the biggest reduction. If the cuts planned for five years from now were made today, CFO Alice Maroni could lose as much as $120,000, or 41 percent of her base salary of $293,280. Others could have reductions ranging from $6,000 to more than $80,000 a year.
NEW YORK
Falls cause damage
Some New York City residents say an art display of four waterfalls near the Brooklyn Bridge is destroying a waterfront garden with salt-water mist. The Brooklyn Heights Association is asking the city to take down the waterfalls right after Labor Day, not on Oct. 13 as scheduled.
OAKLAND, CALIF.
Killer sentenced
A judge on Friday accepted a plea deal that reduced the murder charge for a software programmer who led authorities to his wife's body after his initial conviction. Hans Reiser, 44, was found guilty in April of first-degree murder, even though the body of his estranged wife, Nina, had not been found. Reiser led authorities to his wife's body after his conviction in exchange for the possibility of a lighter sentence. The charge, reduced to second-degree murder, still carries a potential life sentence, but Reiser will now be eligible for parole after 15 years.
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MEDFORD, OKLA.
Explosion kills two
A locomotive train slammed into a propane tanker truck in north-central Oklahoma on Friday, triggering a huge explosion that killed two people and injured a third, authorities said.
Compiled from wire reports.
PHILADELPHIA
Corpse case ends
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