Woman stays indoors for 14 years
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A Romanian woman hasn't left her house for 14 years in a bid to prove to her jailed husband that she's being faithful.
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A decade after Tanya Kach ran away from home at age 14, she went to authorities to report a school security guard 24 years her senior had been secretly keeping her in his bedroom in the house he shared with his parents.
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ST. GEORGE, Utah, Nov. 21 -- A woman who says she was forced to marry her 19-year-old cousin when she was 14 called it the "darkest time of my entire life," telling a judge Tuesday that she reluctantly gave her new husband a "peck" before locking herself in a bathroom.
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BLOOMFIELD, Conn., June 6 -- Police looking for clues in the year-long disappearance of a 15-year-old girl said that they found her on Wednesday, pale but alive, locked in a hidden room in a home owned by an acquaintance of her parents.
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People who drink moderately, exercise, quit smoking and eat five servings of fruit and vegetables each day live on average 14 years longer than people who adopt none of these behaviors, researchers said on Tuesday.
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MOSCOW, Oct. 21 -- She survived three days as a hostage and the destruction of the school where she has passed nearly all of her 72-year life. Now Lydia Tsaliyeva is heading home, and her life may be in danger all over again. Only this time the threat comes from her neighbors.
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When Susan Kuhnhausen returned home from work one day earlier this month, she encountered an intruder wielding a claw hammer. After a struggle, the 51-year-old nurse fended off her attacker by strangling him with her bare hands.
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MUHANGA, Rwanda  - For a decade, Beata Uwitije never slept in her own bed at home. It was always a police cell, an alleyway, a bar or one of her client's homes.
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Britney Spears' stay in a psychiatric ward was extended for two weeks under a section in state law that allows patients to be kept for medical treatment if they are found to be gravely disabled or a danger to themselves or others, a person close to the pop star told The Associated Press.
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More than a year after Sarah Nome was deemed healthy and given her discharge papers, the 82-year-old woman stubbornly refuses to leave her hospital bed.
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It was 77 degrees outside. Not a cloud in the sky. Just the sort of weekday that 65-year-old Ho-Mei Chen once imagined she'd be spending in the park with her grandchildren. Or on which 68-year-old hospital administrator Marie Warren once pictured herself tending to her begonias. Or on which...
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In her 13 years, Wendy Mejia-Garcia has witnessed more than her share of turmoil.
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A Malaysian woman has broken the world record for time spent living in a scorpion-filled box. Nur Malena Hassan, 27, has so far endured 32 days in a glass case with 6,069 scorpions; she
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Four migrant women who suffered sustained abuse given Â£140,000 compensation
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A 15-year-old girl missing for nearly a year was found Wednesday locked in a small hidden room under the staircase of a couple's home, police said. Two people who live at the home in West Hartford, Connecticut, were arrested. The girl probably was not kept in the secret room at all times, police said, but could not have unlocked the room from the inside. Based on her pale complexion, police speculated that she never went outside.
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The woman accused of stalking Catherine Zeta-Jones has pleaded not guilty at her arraignment in Los Angeles. Two weeks after being found mentally competent to stand trial, 33 year-old Dawnette Knight entered
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CANTON, Ohio - A widow rented a rotary dial telephone for 42 years, paying what her family calculates as more than $14,000 for a now outdated phone.