Probe begins over macabre funeral in South Carolina

Allendale, South Carolina: James Hines was a giant--a 6-foot-7, 136-kilogramme preacher and funk musician so big that after he died in 2004, a macabre rumour began circulating in this small town that the undertaker had to cut off his legs to fit him in the coffin.

This week, after years of whispers, Hines's body was exhumed, and the gruesome story appeared to be all too true.

The coroner's office said only that it had found "undesirable evidence," and a criminal investigation has been opened.

Under South Carolina law, destroying or desecrating human remains is punishable by 1 to 10 years in prison.

Mri Scan Man coughs up inch-long nail Colorado Srpings Prax Sanchez says he doesn't recall any serious hammer-and-nail mishaps in his past.

Yet doctors administering an MRI on the 72-year-old Colorado man last month abruptly stopped the exam to tell him there seemed to be something metallic in his face.

Right after the MRI, Sanchez coughed up an inch-long nail. His doctor, Jamieson Kennedy, told television station KKTV in Colorado Springs that the nail might have been embedded there as long as 30 years.

Vancouver Man pleads guilty to 2007 slayings Vancouver Canadian police battling a spike in deadly gang violence in Vancouver have reported their first breakthrough in a notorious 2007 shooting, with the arrest of a member of the Red Scorpion gang had confessed to his part in the October 2007 mass-murder dubbed the "Surrey Six Slayings."