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Manny Charlton, a founding guitarist of the Scottish band Nazareth, has died at age 80. The news was confirmed by his grandson in a social media post. No cause of death was given. In addition to playing with Nazareth until 1990, Charlton produced Guns N' Roses' earliest demos. Charlton was born in Spain but his family relocated to Dunfermline, Scotland, when he was a child. He played in several bands in the '60s before one of them evolved into Nazareth, which he helped form in 1968. He played on some of the band's most successful recordings, including 1975's Hair of...

NAZARETH, Israel — Israeli archaeologists say they have uncovered remains of the first dwelling in Nazareth that can be dated back to the time of Jesus.They say the find sheds a new light on what Nazareth might have been like in Jesus' time — probably a small hamlet with about 50 houses populated by poor Jews.Archaeologist Yardena Alexandre of the Israel Antiquities Authority says remains of a wall, a hideout and a cistern were found after builders dug up a convent courtyard.Alexandre said Monday archeologists also found clay and chalk vessels used by Galilean Jews of the time — an...

OVIEDO, Fla. -- The woman accused of shooting and killing her estranged husband and then stabbing herself told investigators the gun went off accidentally during sex, police said. According to the arrest report, Anita Smithey told police she and her husband had been separated for about three months, but still met every week. Smithey appeared before a Seminole County judge on Wednesday and was denied bond. Police said Smithey told them her husband, Robert Cline, came to her Oviedo home Monday night and the two drank tequila and had consensual sex before her husband accused her of sleeping with another...

A postal inspector went on trial in France today accused of chopping his wife’s head off because she refused to have children. Philippe Cousin, 53, said he suffered a ‘mid life crisis’ when he approached his half century without a son or daughter. He blamed it on his 47-year-old wife, Nicole, who was still a virgin despite having been married to him for more than 21 years. On April 16th 2007, Cousin telephoned his local police station in Arras, northern France, and told an officer: ‘Excuse me for disturbing you, I’ve killed my wife.’ In a fit of rage following...

Wife 'lured husband to woods for drug-fuelled sex... then slit his throat so she could meet internet lover for first time' By Luke Salkeld 13th October 2009 A poet lured her husband into woodland for a drug-fuelled sex session and then slit his throat, a court was told yesterday. Joanne Hale, 39, left him for dead so she could see a man she had met on the internet, a jury heard. Hale gave her 43-year-old husband Peter a dose of a natural aphrodisiac called 'horny goat weed' before she blindfolded him and led him into local woods to act out...

A Turkish woman accused of cutting off her lover's penis must wait 18 months for a verdict and sentencing while a court determines whether his re-attached penis still functions, a court source said on Thursday.

May 5, 2009 John Bobbitt and Lorena Gallo meet 16 years after she cut off penis James Bone in New York John Wayne Bobbitt still harbours tender feelings for the wife who made him a household name by maiming him in a fit of rage. The Bobbitts, who divorced after the infamous genital mutilation on June 23, 1993, held their first reunion in 16 years on an episode of the US tabloid TV show Insider last night. “He keeps on leaving me messages or sending me Valentine’s cards or flowers, roses,” Lorena, who has reverted to her maiden name of...

A former commando, who brutally murdered his own wife, was arrested in the city of Donetsk, Ukraine. To her own misfortune, the woman told the man immediately after sex that she had had much better intimate experiences with other men. The man will have to undergo a psychiatric examination and will probably be found insane. Kriminal.tv said. The police said that the commando’s partner told him during an act of intimacy that she had had sex with many other men before. However, her previous sex life was much more interesting for her than that she was having with her husband,...

  Paul Anka and partner Anna on the red carpet at Toronto's King Edward Hotel or the Canadian Sonwriters Hall of Fame, Friday February 29. Photograph by : Peter J. Thompson for National Post OTTAWA — Paul Anka’s wife was arrested after the Ottawa-born singer was cut in the head by a piece of ice during a recent domestic dispute, but prosecutors say they won’t pursue the case. Anka was struck during an argument with his wife, Anna Anka, after an ice bucket fell to the floor on Nov. 28, according to the gossip website tmz.com. Anka went to the...

VERO BEACH, Fla. – A Vero Beach man faces a domestic violence charge after authorities said he assaulted his girlfriend with a cheeseburger. An Indian River County Sheriff's Office arrest report said a 22-year-old man and his girlfriend got into an argument as they sat in a car in front of their home.

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio -- A Tri-State woman is in critical condition Wednesday after police say her husband shot her while they were having sex. Timothy Havens, 38, told Springfield police he was reaching for something on the nightstand when the pistol went off, hitting his estranged wife Carolyn in the upper chest. Carolyn Havens, 42, is being treated at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton. This is isn't the first time there's been trouble for the Havens. Court documents showed Timothy served 60 days in jail for assaulting his wife and was ordered to go to anger management classes. His arrest Tuesday...

An American scuba diver has been charged with murdering his wife by drowning her during their honeymoon at the Great Barrier Reef. The move allows authorities to begin the process of extraditing David Gabriel Watson, of Birmingham, Alabama, to face the charges in Australia. Watson's wife, Christina Watson, drowned on October 22, 2003, while the couple was diving at a shipwreck off Queensland's coast, eleven days after their wedding. The body of Tina Watson (circled) lies on the sea bed after her husband had swum to the surface The alleged murder only came to light after a photograph showing Mrs...

BOYNTON BEACH — Carol Anne Burger killed her former lover by stabbing her 222 times with a Phillips-head screwdriver and then took pains to hide her crime, police said Wednesday. Jessica Kalish, who shared a house with Burger despite breaking up with her more than a year ago, was found last Thursday stuffed in the backseat of her gun-metal BMW sedan, abandoned behind a medical office at 2300 S. Congress Avenue. Her blood was splashed around the rear end and undercarriage of the car, as if her killer had tried to load her into the trunk. The driver-side window was...

A Huffington Post writer stabbed her former lover more than 200 times with a screwdriver and then tried to conceal the slaying, PalmBeachPost.com reported. After committing the gruesome crime, Carol Anne Berger, an election correspondent for The Huffington Post, reported her former flame missing and then fatally shot herself a day later, police told the Web site. Lt. Gary Chapman said Jessica Kalish, 56, a software executive, was found in the backseat of her BMW on Oct. 23, the Web site reported.

A Pasco County woman was in jail Sunday charged with aggravated domestic battery. Her live-in boyfriend called police to the couple's Castile Lane home during an argument Saturday evening. The victim, Bruce Montle, told sheriff's deputies the argument with Celeste Irene Lagrant, 39, started over a marriage proposal. Montle told investigators that Lagrant slapped, punched and scratched at him. She also threw several knives at him, he said. Lagrant was later released from jail.

<p>Gov. Eliot Spitzer has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, an administration official said this morning. He is set to make an announcement . . .</p>

A tire maintenance worker at Metro's Hiram Clarke facility was shot 18 times and killed by a friend and fellow worker after the two feuded for days over a woman, the men's supervisor said. Police on Thursday identified Mario Love, 27, of the 5600 block of East Hampton, as the slain man and said his killer is believed to be a man they found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The Harris County Medical Examiner's office identified that man as Marcus L. Boone, 22. He fit the description witnesses gave of Love's shooter. The man believed to have committed suicide...

A woman who stabbed her husband's former mistress 18 times in a jealous rage was cleared of attempted murder yesterday. Alethea Foster, 61, gasped and stumbled in the dock after a jury of nine women and three men acquitted her of intentionally trying to kill or harm Julie Simpson, 45, a mature student at Cambridge University, last October. But she was sentenced to 30 months in prison for causing grievous bodily harm after stabbing her in the neck, face, head, chest and back, leaving her with a punctured lung, blind in one eye and disfigured for life. Cambridge Crown Court...

August 16, 2004 -- Gov. Jim McGreevey just wouldn't take no for an answer. So says Golan Cipel, who broke his silence yesterday, claiming he lived in a perpetual state of terror over McGreevey's constant sexual advances. In his first interview since the gay-sex scandal broke, the Israeli poet at the center of the storm told the Israeli paper Yediot Ahronot that McGreevey's predator-like come-ons eventually got so bad, "I got to a point where I was afraid to stay with him alone. "He hit on me over and over," Cipel said. Cipel claimed he didn't report the harassment because...

Woman Pulls Knife During Marriage Counseling A 34-year-old Great Falls woman faces a felony assault charge, for allegedly pulling a knife on her husband during a marriage counseling session. Justice of the Peace Kathleen Jensen set bail at 15-thousand dollars for Laura Ann Jordan. Court documents say she held a knife to the throat of James Jordan, causing him to fear for his life. Police said the assault was witnessed by the counselor.