Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe DETROIT) -- A Detroit suburban family claims that its 81-year-old family patriarch died in a well-known local hospital because of negligence. The Detroit News is reporting that Douglas Roberts had been admitted with a case of vertigo and was left lying on a bedpan overnight. An infection, as a result of the incident, eventually led to his death. The lawyer representing the surviving family of the Royal Oaks, Mich., man says that the hospital explained that it was understaffed the night Roberts was left unattended. In the weeks between the incident and his death he told his family that he repeatedly called for help, but no one came to assist him at Beaumont Hospital. Advertisement The dead man's daughter has filed a litany of complaints against the hospital for services she claims here father never received. (PHILADELPHIA) -- The City of Brotherly love is still in love with the 25-year-old image of Rocky, the boxer Sylvester Stallone made famous by running up and down the steps of the city's Art Museum. The head of a local advertising agency tells the Philadelphia Inquirer that his city is tied to Rocky, the movie and the classic movie theme. Advertisement Elliott Curson says that the movie is "Philadelphia's signature movie." Before the film, he says that people didn't really understand Philadelphia -- except as the site of classic deliberations during the American Revolution. The head of the city's film board says that Philadelphia will always be linked to the character of Rocky Balboa. Sharon Pinkenson tells the publication that Rocky is a character that everyone cheers for. (BOSTON) -- A lot of people in the historic Boston enclave of Cambridge are looking closely at a plan that could mean the construction of what the Boston Globe calls a "Back Bay-style residential neighborhood." The publication recently reported that environmentalists, though, love the plan. The 48-acre site earmarked for the project is essentially "recycled" land. No suburban farm land or environmentally sensitive open area would be used. The plan calls for up to 2,700 housing units in the "affordable" range. Cambridge has always been short on housing. The Globe says that the project is one of few that everyone seems to like. The project could cost more than $1.2 million and take years to complete. (WASHINGTON) -- Thousands are ooo-ing and aah-ing at a replica of a 40-foot crocodile with bone-crushing teeth at the National Geographic's headquarters building in the nation's capital. The society says that the model of the "Sarcosuchus imperator -- the so-called Super Croc -- shows the animal that lived 110 million years ago. Advertisement The replica was constructed using bones recovered in central Niger in Africa by a team led by scientists from the University of Chicago. The team found a six-foot jaw of an animal that they knew was not a true dinosaur. Research showed it to be the ancestor of today's crocodiles. Among the unusual features of the Super Croc are eye sockets that show the animal looked upwards as it swam through the water. The replica will remain on display in Washington until Jan. 2. A similar model is being shown in Los Angeles and will remain there until Jan. 27.
