Yahoo! News - Woman gets divorce papers 42 years late: "Sun Feb 29, 7:56 AM ET
AMMAN (Reuters) - A Jordanian woman has received formal divorce papers 42 years after her husband left, and long after she remarried and had children, the official Petra news agency says.
The 68-year-old man divorced his wife verbally in 1962, but only registered his new marital status two weeks ago, when he needed to apply for an official identity card, Petra said.
In Islam, a man is considered divorced from his wife after declaring it to her verbally three times.
The man filed formal divorce papers only after a civil servant dealing with his ID card application asked for proof that he was no longer wed to his former wife. "
20:50 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Woman knocks out husband with tear gas: "Thu Mar 4, 6:53 AM ET
AMMAN (Reuters) - A Jordanian woman knocked her husband out by hurling a tear gas canister at him during a domestic fight, Al Rai daily newspaper has reported.
The husband started shedding tears after he was hit and then blacked out. He was treated by medics.
Police were investigating the incident in the outskirts of the capital Amman, particularly the source of the tear gas canister.
The paper did not say what the couple had been arguing about. "
20:48 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Drunk dad asks 11-year-old son to drive: "Wed Mar 10, 2:40 PM ET
DALLAS (Reuters) - A Texas man did the drinking and decided to let his 11-year-old son, who was barely able to see over the steering wheel, do the driving, police said.
Police said on Wednesday they had arrested Robert Lee Crider on charges of child endangerment, public intoxication and having an open container of alcohol in his vehicle.
Crider's son was pulled over by a Texas state trooper outside of the west Texas town of Big Spring in the predawn hours of Saturday after the officer saw the car speeding and weaving through traffic, said Sargeant Jason Hester, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Crider apparently was taking his son home for the weekend as a part of a custody arrangement with his ex-wife. Crider and a friend stopped off at a bar with the boy, and when the two adults became too drunk to drive, they handed the keys of the rental car over to the boy.
The boy was pulled over just as the group started on a trip of some 200 miles to Crider's home. They had passed several motels before they were stopped by the trooper, Hester said.
Police fed the boy a grilled cheese sandwich, found a mattress for him to sleep on and called his mother, who picked him up and drove him back to her home. "
20:46 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - 81-year-old jailed for killing ill husband: "Fri Mar 12,10:03 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - An 81-year-old woman has been sentenced to two years in prison after she admitted killing her husband because she was tired of caring for him.
Audrey Hingston told police last year that her 83-year-old husband Eric was stabbed to death as he confronted burglars at the couple's home in Devon, southwest England.
She then changed her story, saying he had committed suicide, but later admitted she killed him.
The prosecution accepted Hingston's manslaughter plea on grounds of diminished responsibility, a Plymouth Crown Court spokeswoman said on Friday.
The court heard that Eric Hingston, who was found dead in August 2003, suffered from heart problems and asthma. "
20:46 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Nun faces jail for drunk tractor driving: "Fri Mar 12,11:50 AM ET
WARSAW (Reuters) - A Benedictine nun is facing jail for driving a tractor into a car while drunk outside her convent in southwestern Poland, police say.
The 45-year-old nun will be charged with drunk-driving and causing an accident, which carries a prison sentence of up to two years, Dariusz Waluch, police spokesman in the southwestern Polish town of Dzierzoniow, told local news agency PAP.
He said the nun was 17 times over the country's legal alcohol limit for driving. "
20:42 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Sleeping burglary suspect startles victims: "Thu Mar 25, 2:33 PM ET
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - An Oklahoma couple were surprised when they woke up and found a drunk burglary suspect asleep in bed with them, police say.
The couple from the south Oklahoma city of Ardmore called police, ran out of their house and watched officers arrest the man who was still sleeping in their bed despite the sirens and commotion, police said.
Dan Johnson, 24, was arrested on the scene in the incident that took place on Sunday and was charged with burglary.
Officer Chad Anthony said in his arrest report that it took quite an effort to rouse the suspect from a deep slumber.
'After about two to three minutes, Johnson stood up. I saw that he was very intoxicated,' he wrote.
The report said Johnson was found with a cell phone belonging to one of the victims in his pocket and $4 in cash, also apparently stolen.
Johnson is suspected of kicking down a door at the residence and also trying to gain entry by using garden trimmers to pry open a door, the report said.
Police said the couple told officers a man they did not know had fallen asleep in bed with them.
Johnson and the victims would not comment on the incident. "
20:35 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Fla. Teacher Accused of Killing RabbitsWed Mar 24, 4:49 PM ET
PLANT CITY, Fla. - A high school science teacher killed a pair of sickly rabbits with a shovel as her stunned class looked on, then asked the students to help bury the day-old animals, authorities said.
Plant City High School teacher Jane Bender will not face criminal charges, but authorities brought two civil counts of animal cruelty that carry fines of $620.
Investigators said Bender killed the rabbits last month and buried them in a field near the school's agricultural lab with two others from the same litter that had died. The rabbits — about the size of chicken eggs — were not likely to survive on their own.
Bender told investigators that she asked a student to dig a hole, but the class refused to help in burying the rabbits, Hillsborough County sheriff's spokesman Lt. Rod Reder said.
"We felt this person had to be held accountable. It's just not what we want to teach people to do with injured or sick animals," county Animal Services investigator Dennis McCullough said Tuesday.
Calls to phone numbers listed to a Jane Bender in Plant City and nearby Tampa went unanswered Wednesday.
The civil penalties require Bender to pay $310 for each count, or request a court hearing where she can appeal the fine.
20:34 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Teens Caught Chasing Antelope in Wyoming: "Thu Mar 25,10:50 AM ET
GILLETTE, Wyo. - Six teenagers were cited for harassment. The victim? A herd of antelope.
'I watched them do it,' said South Gillette Game Warden John Schneidmiller, who was driving on Interstate 90 when he spotted the teenagers in a sport utility vehicle giving chase to the animals. 'They were definitely harassing the antelope.'
The driver was ticketed for harassing big game animals with a vehicle, which carries a $410 fine. The five passengers were given warning citations. Their names were not released.
Schneidmiller said antelope in the area are physically vulnerable and that harassment of this sort could cause serious injury or death to the animals.
'In the drought that we're in, the antelope are so stressed to begin with that they don't need additional stress,' he said.
Schneidmiller also noted the danger the driver created for himself and his passengers by zigzagging off-road around the herd.
'They almost rolled their vehicle,' he said. 'I watched them, they were up on two wheels a couple times.'
While similar incidents are often reported to the state Game and Fish Department wardens, it is rare to actually catch someone in the act, Schneidmiller said. "
20:32 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Man With Stolen Check Leaves LicenseThu Mar 25,10:59 AM ET
HARRISON, Ark. - Police had no trouble tracking down a man who tried to cash a stolen check at a Harrison bank.
After the teller, a policeman's wife, recognized the check as stolen, the man took off from a drive-through window — and left his driver's license behind.
Steven Allen Miller, 39, pleaded innocent last Friday to charges of theft of property and breaking and entering.
Police said Miller broke into a man's car and stole a cell phone, police scanner, 80 music CDs and a $243 check on Feb. 29. The next day, police say, he went to a bank and tried to cash the check at a drive-through window.
The clerk instructed the man to step inside because she needed identification beyond the driver's license that he had submitted with the check. Instead of entering the bank, Miller drove off.
Police found Miller at the address listed on his license.
20:30 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Cheerleader's Mom Sent to Anger Classes: "Thu Mar 25, 2:15 PM ET
BENTONVILLE, Ark. - A judge ordered the mother of a junior high school cheerleader into anger management classes after the woman admitted that she harassed the sponsor of the cheerleading team.
Melissa Leach, 33, was also fined $500 and given a suspended 30-day jail sentence for pushing and shouting at Lincoln Junior High cheerleading coach Helen Campbell last August.
Campbell had disciplined Leach's daughter for skipping practices.
Leach, who pleaded guilty in Bentonville District Court on Tuesday, must attend anger management classes and perform some public service."
20:28 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Woman Tracks Down Obscene Phone Calls: "Thu Mar 25, 3:04 PM ET
HERMITAGE, Pa. - A woman fed up with obscene phone calls tracked down the offender and cornered him as he made yet another call from a public phone booth, police said.
The 26-year-old Sharpsville woman received the calls regularly on Friday and Saturday between midnight and 3 a.m., police said.
The woman, whose identity was not released, had caller ID and asked the phone company to trace the number, police said.
The calls were traced to a phone booth in Hermitage, about two miles away, police said.
The phone company, at her request, forwarded calls on Friday to her cell phone.
The woman and three of her cousins staked out the phone booth and around 1:30 a.m., a former neighbor arrived and made a call, police said. The woman's cell phone rang, police said.
Family members prevented the man from leaving until police arrived.
Fred Marini, 43, of Hermitage, was charged Wednesday with harassment and stalking.
Marini has an unlisted phone number and could not be reached for comment Thursday. "
20:26 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Two Burglary Victims Held on Pot Charges: "Thu Mar 25, 6:31 PM ET
MOSCOW, Idaho - Two home burglary victims became suspects after officers allegedly discovered marijuana growing at the residence.
Jason Wellman, 19, and Matthew Beyer, 18, were each charged with manufacturing marijuana with intent to deliver.
The men called the Latah County Sheriff's Office early Wednesday morning to report that their TV and VCR had been destroyed and their video game console was missing, Sheriff's spokeswoman Darla Buckley said.
But as deputies checked the perimeter of the home for suspects, they allegedly spotted some pot plants growing in a doorless shed.
Investigators have no leads so far on the home burglary, Buckley said, but they did take Wellman and Beyer into custody. "
20:15 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Newborn Survives Four-Floor Fall: "Thu Mar 25,10:14 AM ET
SEOUL (Reuters) - A newborn baby boy survived a four-floor fall after his 27-year-old mother threw him out of a motel window soon after giving birth, South Korean police said on Thursday.
The baby was recovering in hospital with a fractured leg after the incident, which took place in the early hours of Tuesday, a policeman said by telephone from Ansan near Seoul.
The Korea Times newspaper reported a shop sign broke the baby's fall after the mother threw him out the window because she did not want her boyfriend to find out she had given birth to another man's child.
The mother was also receiving medical treatment, the daily said. "
14:10 Posted by David
Ananova - Man's longstanding condition draws a crowd in hospital: "Man's longstanding condition draws a crowd in hospital
A man has become a tourist attraction in the Dominican Republic after admitting himself to hospital with an erection that had lasted six days.
Staff at Jose Maria Cabral and Baez hospital in Villa Gonzalez said nurses, doctors and members of the public had turned up to glimpse his predicament for themselves.
Terra reports that unfortunate Igancio Cabrera, 25, was told by doctors that urgent surgery was required because untreated the condition could have left him impotent.
The hospital's director told the paper that since Mr Cabrera denied taking sexual stimulants, he could be suffering from a rare form of anaemia that can give men erections for long periods of time."
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