Ron Palillo, ‘Horshack,’ From the Popular 1970’s ‘Welcome Back Kotter’ is dead at 63

  Sadly, Ron Palillo, who played Arnold Horshack on “Welcome Back, Kotter”,died of a heart attack in Florida at age 63, his agent said in a press release earlier today. Since working on the super popular television series, Palillo had been doing cameo appearances and teaching high school drama classes.    Palillo died of a heart attack […]

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Death in the Recession: More Bodies Left Unburied

Have economic times gotten so bad that some of the dead are going unburied? Several large counties across the country are experiencing unprecedented increases in the number of unclaimed deceased — not only because the dead people could not be identified, were indigent or were estranged from their family, but also apparently because more people simply cannot afford to bury or cremate their loved ones. The phenomenon has increased costs for local governments, which have to dispose of the bodies

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