Day: October 20, 2024

Man says he gets his food fix in hospital cafeterias: ‘Well worth a visit’

2:30 pm October 20, 2024

A man claims to have spent thousands of dollars eating at his new favorite location – hospital cafeterias. Omar Shafiq, 33, told news agency SWNS that he has eaten more than 700 meals at various hospitals throughout the United Kingdom, spending a total of £10,000 (nearly $13,000) since 2022. And while one might think that […]

Pennsylvania woman sentenced to life for murders of 2 young children found hanging in home’s basement

2:24 pm October 20, 2024

A Pennsylvania woman was sentenced to two life terms without parole following her convictions for murdering her two young children who were found hanging in the basement of their home in September 2019. Lisa Snyder, 41, was convicted last month on two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Connor, 8, and Brinley, 4, […]

Older Americans turn to marijuana for better sleep and pain relief: Here’s what to know

2:00 pm October 20, 2024

While cannabis has historically been more popular with younger groups, a growing number of older adults are turning to the drug for a variety of reasons — but are the potential benefits worth the risk? A recent poll by the University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging found that among people 50 years of […]

Romance scams on the rise as Americans look to dating apps for love: 5 tips to protect yourself

1:30 pm October 20, 2024

After losing her husband, “Beatrice” turned to an online dating site for seniors during the COVID-19 pandemic. She quickly matched with and fell hard for a person she thought was a 66-year-old Spanish lumberjack who looked uncannily like her husband. “I was missing not having him here to talk about, you know, what was going […]

Lane Bryant massacre: Criminal profiler says arrest could come in 2008 murder of 5 in women’s clothing store

1:30 pm October 20, 2024

It was as cold-blooded as cold cases come. On Feb. 2, 2008, a man posing as a delivery driver walked into a Lane Bryant clothing store in Tinley Park, a suburb of Chicago, with a .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun. He forced six women he found inside into a back room, duct taped their hands behind their […]