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Family justifies locking woman up By Sandeep Sahu BBC News, Bhubaneswar Two men in the eastern Indian state of Orissa have been explaining why they locked up a woman in the family for years in a single room. Officials say the 43-year-old, Annapurna Sahu, had been locked up for more than 25 years. The father now says she was locked up only for four years. Her brother said they confined her because her "mad behaviour" put off women who might have married him. She was released earlier this week. 'No clothes on' The father of Annapurna, Brajobandhu Sahu denied that...

Two additional nurses have filed affidavits in the Terri Schiavo case that corroborate bombshell allegations by nurse Carla Sauer Iyer, who went public on Tuesday with claims that Michael Schiavo had deliberately withheld treatment from his disabled wife. Heidi Law was a certified nursing assistant at the Palm Garden Convalescent Center in Largo, Florida, where she treated Ms. Schiavo in 1997. In an affidavit filed with the court in August 2003, Ms. Law maintained: "I know that Terri did not receive routine physical therapy or any other kind of therapy. I was personally aware of orders for rehabilitation that were...