A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a 75-year-old woman to 40 lashes for having two men who are not related to her in her home, a violation of the nation’s Islamic law. The woman has appealed the sentence, claiming that she breast-fed one of the men as an infant, making him like a son under the law. (Read More . . .)
An 86-year-old woman apparently distraught over the loss of her home spent several hours atop a 20-foot-high avocado tree in the backyard of a Downey home, but eventually came down on her own today. (Read More . . .)
A 63-year-old woman in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province of China, can do 97 push-ups within 60 seconds. Huang Tianleng, resident in Wenjiang district of the city, has exercised every day since 2002, and she does push-ups for one to two hours every morning. “I learned that a man named Wang Jiyue in our city can do 100 push-ups within one minute, I want to challenge him.” Huang said. (Source: China Daily/Chengdu Evening News)
Residents of a peaceful Statesville neighborhood on Belle Terre Drive (Statesville, NC) two men walked into the elderly woman’s home and said they were selling carpeting, but then they stole $1100 while she wasn’t looking. (Read More . . .)
Elderly nursing home residents are increasingly living alongside young and middle-age people with mental illness, with sometimes tragic results, according to a 50-state investigation by the Associated Press. It appears that in many cases this potentially dangerous trend is a violation of federal law. (Read More . . .)
Alzheimer nursing home resident, Ivory Jackson (aged 77), was murdered by his room-mate. The room-mate repeatedly hit in the face with a clock radio – the room-mate is a mentally ill man nearly 30 years younger. Police found him sitting next to the nurse’s station, blood on his hands, clothes and shoes. Inside their room, the ceiling was spattered with blood.
An estimated 50 million Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients will receive their one-time $250 economic stimulus check. Don’t spend it all at once Granny!!
Police say a 78-year-old woman helped catch a man who had just robbed her daughter at gunpoint in the parking lot. (Read More . . .)
Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor is now playing cupid: he’s just launched Eons.com, a dating site for senior citizens called Eons.