A 49-year-old woman banned from smoking in her own garden has appealed the decision to the Environmental High Court. Update on this story. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A Swedish woman has been banned from smoking in her garden in a trial headed by the Environmental Court in Vaxjo. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A woman forced an 83-year-old housemate to smoke crack cocaine so she could steal personal information to get a credit card in her name and run up more than $3,000 in charges. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Elaine Fulps was unusually happy for a woman who just got her funeral all lined up. Maybe that's because the 60-year-old Arlington woman who just won the funeral in a promotion at a minor league baseball game won't need to cash in her prize any time soon. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

A woman kicked out of a women's toilet after a New York City restaurant mistook her for a man has settled her discrimination lawsuit for $US35,000 ($37,116). picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

A woman who was injured and arrested during a struggle with a police officer over her brown lawn said she wants to move. "Since this has happened, I don't want to live in Orem anymore,".

Follow up on this story picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Malaysian police have arrested a woman in connection with the murder of a man whose body was chopped into 11 pieces and stuffed into a refrigerator in a posh apartment in the capital. Follow up to this story. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A Scottish woman has avoided a prison sentence after she admitted putting dog excrement in her husband's curry. Follow up on this story. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

Do you smoke? Well, you better be careful where. I don't smoke, and I don't like the smell, but what some people are doing to smokers makes me say give me a break. picked by dollyllama 6 months ago

A woman who was trafficked across the border from Pakistan with her son, 3, was handed to an Afghan who raped her, then beat the toddler to death as she watched.

He was jailed for 20 years for murder - but the woman, Rukhma, was jailed, too. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

This year’s World No Tobacco Day focuses on 100 percent Smoke-Free Environments as the only measure to protect people, especially women and children, and people in the workplace, from exposure to second hand tobacco smoke. picked by suebe 1 year ago

A woman was arrested in Virginia Beach, Va., after she posted a video on the Internet of a 2-year-old child attempting to smoke a cigarette. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

An elderly woman misunderstood instructions while checking in at Sweden's main airport and was whisked down a baggage chute after she placed herself instead of her luggage on the belt. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

For women who want to give up smoking, it could be a matter of timing, say scientists.

The chances of succeeding are much higher if they call a halt to the habit in the days before their menstrual cycle. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

Smoking just might have saved Brenda Comers' life.

She said she had just finished washing dishes Monday and stepped outside to smoke a cigarette when an 80-foot oak tree crashed through her roof, landing across the sink where she had been standing just seconds before. picked by suebe 1 year ago

Sigh...it has come to this then. Sources for the Stones were quoted as saying "Ronnie and Keith have been smoking on stage for the last three decades and they're not going to stop for the next two" Don't they realize that cigarette smoke and tar is ALL that keeps Keith alive nowadays? (seriously someone should get some of the man's DNA - I bet it cures cancer) picked by moe 1 year ago

A northern Idaho woman with a fitting name won first place on Saturday as the Nez Perce County Fair held a hog-calling contest. picked by Bornbad 2 weeks ago

A white-haired 81-year-old great-grandmother who was rolled into a Newport Beach courtroom with her wrists handcuffed to a wheelchair Thursday became possibly the oldest person in Orange County history to plead guilty to first-degree murder. picked by tlovesd 2 years ago

A WOMAN who chewed off part of a man's ear after he called her fat was given two years' probation yesterday. picked by mutil8or 6 months ago

A 35-year-old Canadian woman has given birth to rare identical quadruplets, officials at a Great Falls hospital said Thursday. Karen Jepp of Calgary, Alberta, delivered Autumn, Brooke, Calissa and Dahlia by Caesarian section Sunday afternoon at Benefis Healthcare. See pictures here. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago