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Robuck, SC (FOX Carolina) - A 56-year-old Woodruff man was arrested after Spartanburg County deputies learned he stole steaks from a supermarket by concealing the meat in his colostomy bag, according to investigative reports. Deputies were called to the Food Lion on Highway 221 in Roebuck just before 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.

SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLORIDA - All Gilberto Powell, 22, a five foot tall man with Down Syndrome, wanted to do was walk a half block home from a friend's house, but this was enough time and distance for the police to intervene. Police "followed" Powell because they noticed a "bulge in his pants." He was not happy to see the cops; this was only his colostomy bag (which police ripped from his body). Powell was then beaten down in the street by police, leaving him bruised and battered from blows to the face. The beating officer insisted Powell ran, but Powell...

My nephew, Chris, has been battling Crone's Disease for a couple of years, but sadly no drugs or diet regimes he's pursued have worked satisfactorily. It's so hard to believe that someone so young (38) is facing the rest of his life with this situation, but the team at Johns Hopkins concluded that colostomy surgery is the only safe and prudent option, given the damage he's sustained internally, to preclude the more devastating prospects of cancers, etc. in the future. Asking for your prayers for Chris, his wife and families through this challenging surgery, recovery and rehab and into what...

MADRID, Spain - Fidel Castro himself told surgeons not to perform a colostomy, opting instead for a course of surgery that produced a complication leaving the Cuban leader in far worse condition, according to a newspaper report Wednesday. After removing an inflamed piece of Castro's large intestine in an operation last year, the doctors connected the remainder directly to his rectum, rather than attaching a colostomy bag, El Pais said, quoting two medical sources at Madrid's Gregorio Maranon hospital. The operation failed when a suture burst. "The Cuban dictator and his advisers are the ones who decided on the surgical...

Cuba's President Fidel Castro holds the Saturday edition of local newspaper Juventud Rebelde in Havana October 28, 2006. Castro defiantly dismissed rumors that he was dead on Saturday in television images showing him. http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/rids/20061029/i/r2759604312.jpg?x=230&y=345&sig=1gDS5RitziNysvfqnvSY4A--" height="230" width="345">

Wife had colon resection and colostomy. Appreciate your prayers.