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Human remains detected in Casey Anthony’s car

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Florida investigators are saying that they have found proof that human remains were at some point in the trunk of Casey Anthony’s car. For those living under a rock the last couple month’s, Casey’s daughter Caylee went missing at the beginning of June, and Anthony did not report the missing girl for over a month.

Investigators have found chemical evidence of human decomposition in the trunk of the car connected to Florida mother Casey Anthony, a law enforcement source said Wednesday.

A spokesman for the University of Tennessee Forensic Anthropology Facility, also known as the Body Farm, said investigators were testing the air found in the trunk of the car for chemical compounds only found in cadavers.

At the time, the spokesman said, “we would not have performed these tests if we didn’t think there was something there.”

Children hit hardest by bad economy

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Not surprisingly, a new report shows that children bear most of the brunt of poverty in the United States.

The rising cost of living, unemployment, and a tough economic situation in the United States are forcing many families with children into lower income brackets “and even into poverty where they are caught by the public healthcare program safety net,” she said.

The Census Bureau report showed that the percentage of Americans covered by government health insurance rose to 83 million last year from 80 million in 2006, or, in percentage terms, to 27.8 percent from 27.0 percent.

The percentage of Americans on employer-based insurance — the main source of health coverage for Americans — fell from 59.7 percent in 2006 to 59.3 percent last year, with the number remaining statistically unchanged at around 177 million.

The poverty threshold is currently set at 21,000 dollars (14,360 euros) for a family of four, but experts lamented that the 1960s-set standard was out of date.

“It doesn’t capture what it costs to meet some of a family’s basic necessities,” said Stoll.