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NY Cops Bust Bizarre Hit Job
NY Cops Bust Bizarre Hit Job
Aug 22, 2008 5:15 PM CDT

NY Cops Bust Bizarre Hit Job

Jealous spouse gave undercover officer samurai sword to kill wife, retrieve $27K ring

(Newser) - A Brooklyn man was arrested yesterday for attempting to get a hit man to kill his wife—and retrieve the $27,000 wedding ring he had given her, the New York Daily News reports. Rockefeller Auguste, 35, enraged by jealousy, gave an undercover officer posing as a contract killer a...

Fla. Bigamist Can't Stop at Just 2 Wives

With spouses in 3 states, serial groom had his eye on No. 4

(Newser) - Leonard Hare’s bigamy case keeps expanding, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Hare was arrested when his second wife visited a wedding chapel website and discovered pictures of her missing husband—marrying his third wife. Since Hare was arrested, three women have contacted the Sentinel about him, and one of them...

Guarded Cindy Gives McCain Perfect Accessory
Guarded Cindy Gives McCain Perfect Accessory
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Jul 22, 2008 11:46 AM CDT

Guarded Cindy Gives McCain Perfect Accessory

Years of practice as politician's wife, with some rough spots, leave her well polished

(Newser) - Cindy McCain has been a candidate’s wife for more than half her life, and she’s gotten pretty good at it, the Washington Post reports in a profile. The demur, good-looking, stay-at-home mom knows how to humanize her husband and avoid policy talk. “I don't see any chink...

Mrs. O Gets Her Own View
 Mrs. O Gets Her Own View 
Jun 5, 2008 10:42 AM CDT

Mrs. O Gets Her Own View

Following Cindy McCain's path, Michelle Obama will guest-host June 18

(Newser) - Following Cindy McCain's lead, Michelle Obama will co-host The View on June 18, the AP reports. ABC’s mid-morning gabfest asked the wife of the presumptive Democratic nominee to be a guest, but she said she’d rather jump into the often-lively chat and guest interviews, as McCain did in...

Hubbies Cost 7 Hours of Extra Housework a Week

But wives spend less time on chores than they once did

(Newser) - Husbands create seven hours a week of extra housework for their wives, while they themselves spend less time on housework than they did as singles, a new study has found. But it's not all bad news for women. Researchers tracking housework hours of single and married people also found that...

Another Pol's Wife Stands by Her Man

Shrink says it's time women balked at helping with cleanup

(Newser) - Silda Wall Spitzer, the Harvard-educated lawyer who stood grimly alongside her husband during his somewhat perplexing apology yesterday, joins the ranks of political wives who suffer publicly the sex scandals of their disgraced mates, ABC writes. She follows in the footsteps of Larry Craig's wife, Suzanne; Jim McGreevey's then-wife, Dana:...

In Dispute Between Wives, Court Sides With Third

Appeals court upholds claim to body of deceased ex-sergeant

(Newser) - The North Carolina state appeals court affirmed yesterday that the body of a retired Army sergeant belongs to his third wife, though he left her five years before his death in 2005 to return to his first wife. John Burrell never divorced Valerie Burrell after he returned to Hazelene Burrell;...

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