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'Unconscionable' body overflow at funeral home prompts probe

by Associated Press
| April 30, 2020 1:03 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — It started with reports of a strange stench in Brooklyn. Police who investigated found another example of how the cornavirus has overwhelmed the city: A funeral home had resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks.

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