Letter-writer who used blood as ink jailed

UK - A man has been jailed for harassment after sending a letter written in blood in a bizarre dispute over land. Plymouth magistrates heard that 39-year-old Mark Chambers sent the letter to a family in the St Dominick area of South East Cornwall, and appeared at their isolated home the same day, making threats. Sandra Washingham, prosecuting, said: “It included a map, over-written in what appeared to be blood. It stated ‘tittle note’ and ‘this is my property’....More

Man About To Donate 40th Gallon Of Blood

WOODBURY, New York - A New York man will donate his 320th pint of blood this week, making him one of two people in the U.S. who has given 40 gallons. Seventy-five-year-old Al Fischer of Massapequa plans to reach the milestone Tuesday, 58 years after he started giving blood. According to a New York Blood Center official, only 83-year-old Maurice Wood has donated more blood than Fischer. Wood is a retired railroad inspector from St. Louis---More