Woman, 85, in hospital, misses $484 house payment

New Jersey - An elderly New Jersey woman billed $5,800 after missing the final payment on her 30-year mortgage can pursue her lawsuit against the debt collectors. Lawyers for 85-year-old Dorothy Rhue Allen say the fees charged by two banks and a law firm violate consumer-protection laws. The banks advised her lawyers she could pay $5,800 to avoid foreclosure. More… 

Hospital Horror: Woman Trapped By Elevator

New York - A hospital visitor ended up in critical condition after being trapped by an elevator and having to be cut out of it. The woman was at Brooklyn’s SUNY Downstate Hospital at. She was trying to get on an 8th floor elevator when something went wrong and her legs were trapped between the elevator and the floor. The woman was reportedly drifting in and out of consciousness and was bleeding profusely as she lay trapped with her legs crushed...More

Bride discovers her husband is a woman

India - Minati Khatua, from Orissa, allegedly found out the hidden truth after walking in on her spouse taking a bath. Her husband, known as Sitakant Routray, had originally said that he was not willing to consummate the pair’s marriage as he was observing a religious ritual. Police have now launched an investigation into the marriage, with investigators believing that the groom could have gone through with the ceremony in order to receive the dowry...More

Woman gets prison in glass-eating scheme

Massachusetts - Mary Evano has been sentenced to more than four years in prison after admitting that she and her husband intentionally ate glass particles, then submitted false insurance claims. From 1997 to 2005, the couple collected more than $200,000 in compensation after filing insurance claims that they had been injured by restaurants, hotels and grocery stores that had served them food containing glass particles. Evano’s husband, Ronald Evano, pleaded guilty in 2007. He is serving five years in prison...More

Brain Anomaly Leaves Woman Fearless

Iowa - Researchers who have studied a woman with a missing amygdala - the part of the brain believed to generate fear - report that their findings may help improve treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and other anxiety disorders. The human study confirming that the almond-shaped structure is crucial for triggering fear, researchers monitored a 44-year-old woman’s response to typically frightening stimuli such as snakes, spiders, horror films and a haunted house, and asked about traumatic experiences in her past...More

Woman, 103, may be oldest on Facebook user

England - A 103-year-old British woman who may be the world’s oldest Facebook user said she regularly browses the Web site on her iPad. Lillian Lowe of Tenby, England, said she uses the Facebook app for the iPad to keep in touch with her 34 friends, including seven grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Lowe said she never even used a mobile phone before her grandson, Steve, 47, introduced her to the iPad....More

Woman, 71, Beat Attacker With Frying Pan

Kansas - A Kansas man accused of trying to rape a 71-year-old woman was hospitalized for several days due to injuries the elderly woman inflicted with a frying pan. Investigators said Kevin Scott Funderburk, 25, was drunk when he approached the woman’s Hutchinson home and talked her into letting him inside by saying he was homeless and had nowhere else to seek ..more

Woman bitten by what she thought was toy

Australia - An Australian woman was recovering after stepping on what she thought was her son’s rubber snake — it turned out to be a real snake, and venomous. Haynes, who lives in Winmalee in the Blue Mountains, said she had just put her 10-year-old son to bed and come into the hallway, where she saw the snake on the floor. She felt the bite first. I thought it was a toy with something sharp in it, like a pin, but then it wriggled...More

Woman Who Gave Birth At 66 Wants Second Child

Spain - A 72-year-old woman who had a daughter when she was 66 is planning to have a second child, Spanish media reported. Adriana Iliescu, who was the world’s oldest new mother in 2005 when she gave birth to Eliza Maria Bogdana, said: “It could be a son if God and the doctors want.” The Romanian university lecturer said if she had a son “he would act as a support, who would protect me.” ...More

Woman punished for Poisoning 47 Cops

UK - A former British cafe owner was ordered to wear an electronic tag as punishment for poisoning 47 cops with contaminated sandwiches. Cops ordered 100 sandwiches from her cafe so they had something to eat while policing a demonstration. Morris sent them contaminated sandwiches sending the cops to the hospital...More

66 Year-Old Woman gives Birth To Triplets

India - The world’s oldest known mother of triplets is a woman who lives in Haryana, India, and is 66 years of age. Even more amazing is the fact that Bhateri Devi had been childless for 44 years of marriage and conceived via artificial insemination. The babies are the just desserts of the woman’s bitterness against her farmer-turned property owner ex-husband, Deva Singh, who divorced her because she could not give him an heir and remarried two more times to no avail....More

Woman sentenced to labor camp for Twitter post

China - A Chinese woman has been sentenced to a year in a labor camp for retweeting a Twitter post that mocked Chinese protesters who smashed Japanese products during a recent demonstration, her fiance said. Cheng Jianping, under the username wangyi09, added a few words to a message written by her fiance, before resending it on Twitter. Cheng, 46, was sentenced to one year in a Henan Province labor camp for disturbing social stability....More

Woman sentenced in antifreeze margarita death

New York - A woman drew a 23-year prison sentence today for killing her alcoholic boyfriend by lacing a jug of margarita cocktails with antifreeze at her apartment in western New York. “It’s not as if you were captive in this house,” Judge William Kocher said in imposing a near-maximum penalty on Cynthia Galens, who maintained that victim Thomas Stack was emotionally and physically abusive. “It’s just senseless what you did.”...More

Woman runs down her boyfriend with U-Haul truck

Detroit - Police say a 45-year-old Detroit man was killed when his girlfriend ran him over with a truck. Detroit police Sgt. Eren Stephens tells The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press the couple got into an argument inside the U-Haul. Stephens says the man left the truck and started to walk away, and the woman got behind the wheel and deliberately hit him with it....More

Woman Calls Deputies on Snoring Husband

Duncan - A Duncan woman called deputies because her husband was snoring too loudly. The woman and her husband both work third shift. She says she was trying to sleep but he was snoring too loudly so she asked him to go to another room. She couldn’t go back to sleep and when she got up, she called him a “bastard” and the two began arguing. The woman called police and he left after telling her it would take the SWAT team to bring him in.....More

Odd News:Woman Called 911 to Ask for Date

Ohio - A woman is facing charges after she reportedly called 911 to ask dispatchers for a date. Bernadette Music, 43, allegedly called emergency dispatchers four to five times on July 26 and asked two dispatchers if they wanted to go on a date with her, Local12.com reports. ---...More

Arizona:Dead Woman Found Alive After Medical Mix-Up

Arizona - A young Arizona woman thought killed in a car accident last week was found to be alive in what was described as a medical mix-up. Abby Guerra, 19, was one of five friends from Ironwood High School in Glendale, Ariz., who were on their way home from California’s Disneyland when they crashed July 18. Guerra’s family was told the promising young soccer star died at the scene. Guerra’s family was in the process of organizing her funeral when they got word she was still alive--
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Woman Convicted of Adultery Escapes Stoning, Not Death

Iran - An Iranian woman convicted of adultery will not be stoned to death but may still face execution in the Islamic Republic. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 42, a mother of two, was found guilty of adultery in 2006. She has already spent five years in prison and endured 99 lashes for her illicit relationship with two men, but she still is condemned to be put to death. Iran’s embassy in the U.K. issued a press release saying Ashtiani will not be stoned, but it gave no indication that her life will be spared....More

Woman allegedly tosses baby into SUV to block repo

DALLAS (AP) -- A woman is accused of throwing her year-old son into her SUV in a failed attempt to stop the vehicle from being repossessed in Dallas. Krystal Gardner of Tool was jailed Wednesday on bail of nearly $3,800 on charges including child endangerment related to abandonment, no driver's license and no insurance. Electronic records at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center did not list an attorney for the 28-year-old mother, who was booked Monday....
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Odd News-Woman calls 911 to say she is trapped in jail

Illinois - Carly A. Houston was taken to the Naperville police station after she allegedly became embroiled in a heated dispute with a taxicab driver. A police officer dutifully supplied the 29-year-old Chicago woman with a telephone, instructing her she could make one call to find a relative or friend who could come to the station to post her bail. She used her call to dial 911. She pleaded for help, complaining she was “trapped inside the detention facility.---...More