Caption: MOMMY THE MUMMY
Clip: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ 7.5.9
Penelope Sharon Jordan of Sebastian, Florida, was charged by a federal grand jury last week with Social Security fraud and theft, the US attorney's office in Miami said.
Police found the decaying body of her mother, Timmie Jordan, on a bed in a spare bedroom at the mother's home in late March, when they were called to investigate a report of nuisance cats.
Miss Jordan, 61, told police that her mother had died in 2003.
The indictment alleged that Miss Jordan concealed her mother's death in order to receive both her US Social Security benefits and her military survivor's benefit.
Headline: Hospital mortuary 'let bodies rot'
Caption: LET YOUR BODIES ROT
Clip: http://www.news.com.au/ 7.5.9
BODIES at a Queensland Health mortuary were left with gaping wounds after autopsies, stored with medical equipment attached and allowed to decompose.
Funeral directors have told of the unsavoury practices and raised a litany of other concerns over the treatment of bodies at the Cairns Hospital mortuary...
Headline: Snake Head In Food Rattles Diner At NY Restaurant
Caption: THE HEADS OR TALES MEAL
Clip: http://www.cbsnews.com/ 7.5.9
A diner at a T.G.I. Friday's in upstate New York says he got a little something extra with his broccoli _ a severed snake head.
Jack Pendleton says he was at the restaurant in Clifton Park on Sunday when he spotted something gray mixed in with his vegetables. He realized it was a snake head the size of his thumb, with part of the spine still attached.
Pendleton says he snapped a photo with his cell phone camera and called the waiter over. He says he has no plans to sue.
Headline: 2 Men Plead Guilty to Eating Family's Pet Dog
Caption: PUPPY EATERS!
Clip: http://www.foxnews.com/index.html 7.5.9
Two Hawaiian men pleaded guilty Wednesday to first degree animal-cruelty charges after they allegedly stole an 8-month-old puppy, took it home and butchered it, the Honolulu Advertiser reported.
In exchange for their guilty plea, police dismissed a second charge of theft against Saturnino Palting, 48, and Nelson Domingo, 49, the newspaper reported.
Headline: Dad Accused Of Using Dog Shock Collar On His Kids
Caption: SHOCKING!
Clip: http://www.news.com.au/ 7.5.9
A father was accused of using a dog shock collar on his four children. Salem Police Lt. Dave Okada said the 41-year-old man was jailed Tuesday on charges of criminal mistreatment. He said the father acknowledged putting the electronic dog collar on his four children and shocking all of them at least once.
Headline: Girl forced to have sex with dog
Caption: SICK!
Clip: http://www.news.com.au/ 6.5.9
TWO men and a woman employed by a Canadian mining company were jailed for 20 years each for forcing a 13-year-old girl to have sex with a dog.
Magistrate Gadiel Mariki passed sentence on the trio after finding them guilty of "forcing a girl to have sex with a dog" in the northern Tanzanian city of Mwanza in March 2008.
Job Mlama, 30, Anicet Edward, 30, and Shija Madata, 18, were employed by Canadian mining exploration company, Barrick Exploration Africa Limited (BEAL) at Mwanza, some 800km north of the capital Dar es Salaam.
They were sacked from their jobs shortly after the incident.
Headline: Giant Spiders Invade Australian Outback Town
Caption: Sci-fi Reality
Clip: http://www.foxnews.com/ 6.5.9
Australia is known around the world for its large and deadly creepy-crawlies, but even locals have been shocked by the size of the giant venomous spiders that have invaded an Outback town in Queensland.
Scores of eastern tarantulas, which are known as "bird-eating spiders" and can grow larger than the palm of a man's hand, have begun crawling out from gardens and venturing into public spaces in Bowen, a coastal town about 700 miles northwest of Brisbane.
Headline: Man forgets bank details, dies in poverty
Caption: A sad case of poor memory
Clip: http://www.news.com.au/6.5.9
A HOMELESS South Korean unable to withdraw his life savings because he could not remember his real name has died in poverty.
The man, believed to be aged 56, died of cancer last month, leaving 128 million won ($135,000) in a bank account that was opened in early 1993 under the alias of Na Hae-Dong. The account was frozen several months later when a law took effect to ban accounts held under false names as an anti-corruption measure.
Headline: Chocolate-Powered 150 MPH Race Car Revealed
Caption:What happens if you eat all the fuel?
Clip: http://www.news.com.au/ 6.5.9
team of British engineers have designed a car that not only runs on a fuel derived from the tasty treat, but is largely constructed from parts derived from vegetables.
The steering wheel of the open-cockpit car is constructed from carrot fibers, the foam in the seats from soybeans, and the rear view mirrors and body panels produced from the starch of potatoes. Even the brakes are based on cashew nut shells...
Headline: Dummy may help find missing teenager
Caption:So, A Dummy Can Do Something
Clip: http://www.news.com.au/ 6.5.9
A LIFE-size model has been created of a man who could be behind the disappearance of Sunshine Coast boy Daniel Morcombe more than five years ago.
The three-dimensional model was commissioned by Daniel's parents Denise and Bruce and is the latest tool in their fight for information about their 13-year-old son's disappearance.
Headline: Kidnap Scam Mum 'Misses Sex And Shops'
Caption: Misses sex, in jail?
Clip: http://www.sky.com/ 5.5.9
Karen Matthews, jailed for kidnapping her daughter Shannon, has reportedly said she misses sex, shopping and coffee while behind bars. The 33-year-old, who is serving an eight-year prison term, apparently did not mention her seven children during an interview with a newspaper.
Headline: Austrian Gets World Record For 707,335 Coffins
Caption: Coffin Maker Makes Record
Clip: http://www.cbsnews.com/ 5.5.9
An Austrian carpenter has found a macabre way of getting into the Guinness Book of Records: Over a 30-year career, he's built 707,335 coffins.
Headline: Court wants look at Jackson's breast
Caption: NIP SLIP NIPPED
Clip: 5.5.9
THE US Supreme Court has ordered a federal appeals court to re-examine its verdict in favour of the CBS network that aired a 2004 broadcast in which pop superstar Janet Jackson bared her breast.
"The judgement is vacated and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the third circuit for further consideration in light of FCC v. Fox Televisions stations," the high court said in a statement.
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