Mitchell G. Patton

Two Colorado funeral home operators who sold body parts or bodies in a scheme a prosecutor called "horrifying" were sentenced to prison Tuesday, authorities said.Megan Hess, 46, was sentenced to 20 years in prison and her mother, Shirley Koch, 69, was sentenced to 15 years, the US Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado reported. said in a statement.They operated Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in Montrose, a city of about 20,000 in western Colorado, and stole and sold body parts or bodies from 2010 to 2018, prosecutors said.In many cases, the families were unaware and in others they specifically refused…

Crowds gathered at the Vatican on Thursday to attend the funeral of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, hours before the ceremony is set to begin at 9:30 am local time (3:30 am EST).Mourners filled St. Peter's Square before the Mass, which will be presided over by Pope Francis. The event, in which a living Pope will lead the farewell of his predecessor, is unprecedented in modern times.Benedict, who passed away on New Year's Eve at the age of 95, shocked the Catholic Church when he retired in 2013, becoming the first pontiff to do so in 600 years. He ceded the…

It's been less than a month since Bobby Petrino, the former Arkansas and Louisville head coach, accepted the offensive coordinator job at UNLV under head coach Barry Odom. Petrino has taken another job in his place. Petrino will become the offensive coordinator for the Texas A&M Aggies under head coach Jimbo Fisher, according to ESPN. And the move is a bit surprising considering that Fisher is one of the last head coaches to call his own offensive plays. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Missouri State Bears head coach Bobby Petrino on the sidelines during a game against…

A man of contradictions. A Pope of centuries in conflict. It's as if Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who is being buried Thursday in Vatican City, has two legacies instead of one. Theologian Joseph Ratzinger was a major architect of the theology that inspired the doctrines of the Second Vatican Council, a reform effort in the 1960s that brought fresh air to the church by encouraging outreach to other religions, the use of local languages ​​in Latin's place in Mass, support for religious freedom and much more.Despite this promise and the potential for transparency, Benedict continued the church's centuries-old preference to…