California man donated body parts to UCLA medical school

A pair of spacewalking astronauts overpowered a stubborn bolt and successfully installed a new piano-sized camera in the Hubble Space Telescope on Thursday, the first step to making the observatory better than ever. "Let there be light," spacewalker John Grunsfeld said as ground controllers checked the power hookups. Grunsfeld and Andrew Feustel also completed other chores, replacing a science data-handling unit and hooking up a docking ring so a robotic craft can guide Hubble into the Pacific years from now.

The repair job – all the more dangerous because of the high, debris-ridden orbit – got off to a slow and rocky start.

John Grunsfeld and Andrew Feustel had trouble removing the old camera from the telescope because a bolt was stuck. They fetched extra tools, but none seemed to work.

California man convicted lucrative scheme to sell body parts donated to UCLA medical school

LOS ANGELES (AP) – A man was convicted Thursday of carving up cadavers donated to UCLA's medical school and selling the parts to unsuspecting medical research companies in a $1.5 million scheme.

Jurors found Ernest Nelson, 51, guilty of eight counts, including grand theft and tax evasion. Prosecutors said Nelson could face a maximum of 12 years in prison and they want him to repay $1.5 million to UCLA.

Nelson "was willing to go into a willed body program and cut up body parts for his own personal financial gain," prosecutor Marisa Zarate said after the verdict.

Defense attorney Sean McDonald said he was disappointed by the verdict and left court without further comment.

Prosecutors said Nelson and Henry Reid, the former director of UCLA's Willed Body Program, devised the scam in 1999.