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A woman was arrested Tuesday after her husband woke up in the middle of the night with a terrible headache and later learned he had a bullet lodged in his head.
St. Lucie County Sheriff’s deputies initially thought Michael Eugene Moylan had been hit by a stray bullet, but later realized the couple’s story did not match up, Sheriff Ken Mascara said.
April Moylan, 39, was arrested Tuesday and was in the process of being charged with attempted murder, Mascara said.
Moylan, 45, woke up at 4:30 a.m. and thought he had suffered an aneurism or that his wife had elbowed him in his sleep, authorities said.
His wife drove him to the hospital where doctors said a bullet had lodged behind his right ear. Authorities obtained a search warrant for the couple’s home, located in an upscale gated community, and later arrested the wife, Mascara said.
Green-fingered Andy Lewis started clearing his garden – and found a 50ft x 30ft bunker.
Andy, 36, and partner Fiona Marks, 27, came across a manhole while digging and removing shrubs, reports The Sun.
They lifted the lid to find a ladder to a room littered with old coins, food tins, a child’s doll – and animal bones.
Dad-of-three Andy said: “We were amazed when we shone in the torch and saw a big room with pillars in the middle.”
The ball beeped, the bases buzzed and the fans didn’t cheer in this version of the national pastime. Four teams of blind baseball players turned out Saturday for a round-robin tournament on Long Island.
“This reminds me of when I could see and played in Little League,” said Ted Fass, founder of the host Long Island Bombers.
The home team was joined by the Pennsylvania Wolfpack, the Chicago Comets and the Boston Renegades at Hofstra University – the first beeper ball tournament held in New York state, according to its organizers.
The crowd keeps quiet because applause and shouting would prevent the players from hearing the beeping baseball or running toward the buzzing bases. At the plate, the batter listens for the pitch and takes his cuts.
The hagfish is a bottom feeder so repulsive it had a cameo on TV’s “Fear Factor.” It slimes its enemies, has rows of teeth on its tongue, and feeds on the innards of rotting fish by penetrating any orifice. But cooked and served on a plate, it is considered an aphrodisiac in South Korea.
And the overseas appetite for the hagfish – also known as the slime eel – is creating a business opportunity for struggling West Coast fishermen confronted with tough restrictions on the catching of salmon and other fish.
California’s annual catch jumped from practically nothing to 150,000 pounds over the past four years. Oregon and Washington state last year reported around 1 million pounds of hagfish caught.
A two-headed snake named “We,” the main attraction at the World Aquarium, has died. The 8-year-old rat snake died of natural causes during the weekend, said caretaker Leonard Sonnenschein. Most two-headed snakes survive for only a week or two. “It’s terrible news,” Sonnenschein said. “People come in every day and say: ‘I’m here to see the two-headed snake.’”
Sonnenschein said more than a million people have seen We over the years. Children were especially fascinated by the snake, wondering how two heads could coexist on the same body as We sometimes strained to slither in two directions at once.
“These kinds of questions helped spur the science spirit in children,” Sonnenschein said.
Schoolboy Sam Wishart has become captain of his local rugby team despite being nearly blind. The 11-year-old has a rare condition which means he has to wear very dark, tinted lenses, reports the Daily Mirror. He cannot make out colours and struggles to see in bright light. But it has not stopped him being made skipper of the under-11 rugby team in Frome, Somerset.
Sam of Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts, said: “I like the contact and getting stuck in. Sometimes I drop the ball and it can be hard seeing my team-mates, but I’ve scored quite a lot of tries.
“And it was great when my team-mates voted for me to be captain because I’d only just joined.”