South Korea Police: Body of Fugitive Ferry Owner Found

South Korean police said on Tuesday that a body found last month in the south of the country was that of a fugitive businessman who headed the family that owned the operator of a ferry that capsized in April, killing more than 300 people, many of them high school students. Police said a badly decomposed body found lying in a field near the city of Suncheon on June 12 had been identified by DNA evidence as well as fingerprints as that of Yoo Byung-un, the subject of the country's...

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