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A child was born to 26-year old Kalynn Moore on Dec. 21 at Christ Hospital in Jersey City New Jersey. Somehow the child is now being searched for in New Jersey and Pennsylvania garbage dumps. It seems the child was thrown out with the hospital trash.

It’s unclear exactly what transpired and what case is at issue. A mother gave birth. The doctors say the child was stillborn. The mother says the child was born alive and declared dead 20 minutes after birth.  Whether the child was born dead or alive doesn’t seem be at issue. What is at issue is the question of how the child ended up in the trash and whether or not the body will be found.

According to the story, the child was supposed to have been taken to the hospital morgue. However, when a representative from a funeral home went to get the body on January 2nd the child’s body could not be found.

The police were contacted when it discovered that the child’s body was missing. They launched an investigation and determined that the body had been thrown out with the hospital trash. They are now working with law enforcement officials in Pennsylvania to try to find the body by searching in the various garbage dumps in both cities.

I’m not going to pretend I have any idea what it’s like to have my billion dollar business empire get into trouble in the wake of an international financial crisis; but somehow I have a hard time imagining that trouble for a billionaire, the 94th richest man in the world no less, means getting his Netflix subscription canceled because he can’t pay a $10 bill, or having to scrape pennies together to take to Publix to generate $2 in order to go to the Dollar Tree to purchase cooking oil to make white flour bakes for lunch only to discover that the cheapest cooking oil at the Dollar Tree costs $3. I’m willing to bet Adolf Merckle didn’t have to pawn his and his wife’s wedding band to come up with money to pay the rent for January; and I’m willing to bet he wasn’t walking around his apartment in the days leading up to his suicide trying to figure out what, in addition to his son’s XBOX he might be able to sell to accumulate enough money to hold him over until his next paycheck.

I’ve said all of that to say that if the rest of us can face the music when we run into a financial crisis that’s so bad we can’t afford food, billionaires can face the music too; so excuse me if I can’t pity Adolf Merckle, the German billionaire who apparently committed suicide yesterday on account of his major financial losses suffered amid the ongoing global financial crisis.

Somehow I doubt Merckle lost all his money. He probably just dropped out of “billionaire” status down to multi-millionaire status and was ashamed not to be on Forbes’ list anymore.  More from CNN about Merckle’s suicide

Dr. Richard Sharpe, a cross-dressing Massachusetts dermatologist who was convicted of shooting and killing his wife Karen Sharpe back in November 2001 has committed suicide in his prison cell. Sharpe, a Harvard grad and former Harvard medical school professor was sentenced to life in prison for killing his wife in July 2000.

Sharp during his trial describing the moment of shooting his wife:

“Karen said ‘I’ll call the police’ and held up a piece of paper.”

“[I remember] the gun going off. I think the noise sort of woke me up a little bit.”

Sharpe has attempted to kill himself on a number of occasions, including an attempt at hanging himself with his shoelaces shortly after being charged, while in prison, with trying to hire someone to murder the assistant district attorney who prosecuted him.

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Apparently some co-workers of the city workers in Ohio who won the 207 million dollars in the lottery the other day are suing for a share of the winnings. It seems 4 members of the lotto pool who happened to have missed work the day the winning ticket was purchased have been denied a share of the winnings on the grounds that since they weren’t at work that day and didn’t put any money into the ticket purchases that day they are not entitled to share the jackpot prize money.

The four co-workers think they should share in the winning because they were members of the pool. They say money from previous winnings went into purchasing the tickets and that means they did in fact contribute to the purchase. Besides, just on principle alone they should be given an equal share of the pie and not shafted because they happened to miss work the day the pool got lucky and won.

Opinions run the gamut as to whether or not these 4 co-workers should share in the winnings. Legal experts are divided as to whether or not the 4 co-workers have a case. There was no written agreement and it will be hard to make a case based on an oral agreement; however most people are in agreement that the Ohio city workers who are denying a share of the winnings to the co-workers who missed work are being greedy. What do you think?

Last Friday 29-year Jennifer Nelson of Dayton Ohio was found dead in her home after her 4-year old son, William Nelson, found abandoned at a rest stop in central Ohio, told police that a bad man broke into his home and shot his mother.

Police have arrested 22-year old Charlie W. Myers in connection with the killing of Jennifer Nelson. Myers is believed to have broken into the Nelson’s home with the intention of robbing them. Police say Myers had restrained Nelson but she broke free and stabbed him in the back with a knife. That’s when he shot and killed her then ran off with two computers and her son William.

William Nelson was found at the rest stop by Mike and Judith McConnell at around 8:30PM Friday. Thanks to his parents having “drilled” the information into him from the time he could talk, the child was able to provide his correct address and the names and cell phone numbers of his parents to police.

Police found his mother dead in the home when they went to investigate.

Jennifer Nelson was a stay at home mom whose husband, Eddie Nelson, worked three jobs to allow her to stay home and take care of their son.  Eddie Nelson was at work at the time of his wife’s murder.

Charlie Myers has been charged with aggravated murder.

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Have you heard about the mess over on twitter where the accounts of people like Britney Spears, Barack Obama, Rich Sanchez and facebook were hacked? I hate to laugh at the insanely wrong things people can do sometimes but the message they left on Britney Spears twitter page and the message they left on Rick Sanchez’s page did get a guilty chortle out of me.

The message from Britney’s page:

Hi Yall! Brit Brit here, just wanted to update you on the size of my V*****. It’s about four feet wide with razor sharp teeth

The message from Rick Sanchez’s page apparently stated something to the effect that he was “high on crack and might not be coming into work today.”

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Want to kill your wife? I’m sure there’s a club somewhere you can join; but I might suggest it’s better for everyone concerned if you just divorce your wife instead. You’re going to go to jail if you kill your wife. No matter how clever you think you are, you’re not clever enough to get away with it. Just call a divorce lawyer and extricate yourself from the marriage. At the end of the day a two year divorce battle will be a day at the beach compared to spending the rest of your life in prison.

I get that some men don’t want to divorce because they think it’s a big hassle and they’d rather remain tied in a relationship that’s filled with hate, wishing their wife will drop dead and fantasizing about killing her. I get that for some men who kill their wives it’s about holding on to their money and not having to give a dime of it to their wife; and for others it’s about pure vengeance. Some husbands feel a hate so deep that they want to take a machete to their wife’s head; but if you really stop to think about it, this is not a statement to how horrible your wife is and to the detestable state of your marriage. It’s a statement to how poorly you handle conflict and how irrational you have become.

Get a divorce. If you have to pay alimony pay it. If you have to pay child support pay it. Killing your wife will never free you. On the contrary, killing your wife will cost you your freedom.

Utah State University fraternity and sorority are being charged with felony hazing in connection with the death of an 18-year-old freshman pledge who died of alcohol poisoning back in November 2008. Sigma Nu fraternity and Chi Omega sorority have each been charged with one count of third-degree felony hazing. Charging an organization means there will be no jail sentence if the outcome of any trial is guilt. As Cache County Attorney George Daines puts it, “You obviously can’t put the entity in jail, but you can affect their corporate nature and their ability to continue to act as an association or an entity.”

As for the individual members of the organizations, misdemeanor hazing charges have been filed against 12 students. If convicted the students face the possibility of 1 year in jail.

Michael Starks was found not breathing at the Sigma Nu residence on November 23rd in 2008. Police reports claim the 18-year  old and antoher pledge had been abducted by women from Chi Omega sorority, and given alcohol after they were bound with duct tape. Starks was found to have a blood alcohol content more than four times the legal limit to drive.

I’m going to go ahead and assume that by the time the Oma bluefin tuna, sold at auction in Japan for $100,000 dollars, has been completely consumed, the two Sushi bar owners who paid 9.63 million yen ($104,700) for the 282-pound (128-kilogram) premium tuna will have made their money back and then some. I’d love to try to a piece of this fish just to satisfy my own curiosity about the justification for charging the price of a cheap house for something that’s going to be consumed and expelled as waste. More from MSNBC.com

A helicopter carrying two pilots and seven passengers crashed Sunday near Bayou Penchant in the western Terrebonne Parish of Louisiana. The helicopter was transporting the passengers to a oilfield work site. Eight of the passengers were killed and one injured. The injured passenger was taken to Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center in Houma where he is listed in critical condition. More on this