COLUMBIA — The man’s corpse was discovered without a name or a family, and consequently his final expenses fell to those he had never known.
Boone County's budget for indigent burials runs dry
Friday, September 11, 2009 | 12:01 a.m. CDT;
updated 11:49 p.m. CDT, Saturday, September 12, 2009
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