The things it takes a judge to decide...
Apparently it's been pickled in a jar and stored in some Wisconsin state building for several months. But this week a judge said enough is enough and ordered serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's brain to be cremated. Dahmer's mom had asked that scientist study the brain to see whether biological factors were behind her son's sick behavior. One can hardly blame her for wanting to believe her son's gruesome habits were not her fault.
Dahmer's dad put the brakes on the research and said he wanted to honor his son's request to be cremated, and that included his brain.

You just read about the brain that got left behind. In Washington state an entire body is missing. Mourners who went to pay their respects to an 81 year old woman were shocked when they arrived at the funeral home. They say the body in the casket wasn't Gladys Hudson.
Hudson, they maintained was a light-skinned black woman with a large build. The woman in the casket was dark-skinned and petite. The service came to a halt and mourners were told they would be contacted when the difficulties were worked out.
The funeral director is trying to get permission to disinter another woman buried from his funeral home at about the same time but is skeptical. People who attended her funeral said "She looked wonderful."
As far as we know mourners of Hudson are still waiting for word on her funeral.

Is this destined to be "Close Encounters of a Third Kind?" Rodney King says he wants to meet with two of the former police officers who helped to beat him silly when they finish serving time. Lawrence Powell and Stanley Koon are both up for release from a half-way house this week. Their lawyers say, they are thinking over King's invite.
In an interview this past Monday, King told KTTV, "I just think it would be healthy for me." And no doubt healthy for King's wallet. Could there be plans for a sequel to one of the most famous video's of the twentieth century?

"There's gold in them thar fields of horseradish!" Severalhorseradish manufacturers in the U.S. and Hungary are alreadyperspiring at the prospect of hitting it big in the environmentaldepartment.
Researchers at Penn State announced this week that the pungent horseradish's most famous job of spicing up a roast beef sandwich plays a big second to the way it can clean up contaminated soil and water.
Scientist already know that a horseradish enzyme and hydrogen peroxide can be used to filter pollutants out of industrial wastewater. And experiments now underway show cleaning up the land may be as simple as mincing up raw horseradish, spreading it overa field and cultivating it under with hydrogen peroxide.
This could be the tip of the week for all of you who play the markets.

Here's a surprise. The Grateful Dead have decided it's time to call it quits as a band.
Speaking of the dead, the folks at Domino's Pizza have found some intriguing results in their 9th annual Pizza Meter.
On the day Jerry Garcia died, mushroom-topped pizza orders to Domino outlets increased nationwide by 61 percent.
In the moments prior to the O.J. Simpson verdict, orders for pizzas shot up 25 percent at the Domino stores open during that period.
Between 1 and 1:05 when the verdict was read, there were no recorded orders for Domino's pizzas; a company, first.
And, a tiny silver lining to the pending possibility of another federal government partial shutdown. It seems at least pizza makers can make money. Pizza orders from government offices nationwide increased 68 percent during November's partial shutdown.The reason? Foodservice workers are considered non-essential and are sent home.