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A 29-year-old woman is being questioned after police said she beat a 61-year-old man over the head with a high heel shoe so badly Sunday afternoon that he needed staples to close the wounds, police said. No charges have been filed against the woman but police are interviewing her this morning, police said. It happened Sunday afternoon at a home in the 3300 block of West Eastwood Avenue in the Albany Park neighborhood as the victim tried to wake the sleeping woman, who was on a couch in a front room, police said.

A man is dead and a woman is facing murder charges for a bizarre stabbing incident in Texas - the suspected murder weapon is a stiletto shoe. Police in Houston say the suspect, 44-year-old Ana Lilia Trujillo, used one of the pointy-heeled shoes to stab the 59-year-old victim in a high-rise luxury condominium building inhabited primarily by faculty and staff at the University of Houston. Authorities are yet to identify the victim, and it's unclear whether he worked at the University.

A BRITISH man remains critically ill today after being stabbed through the eye with a stiletto heel last weekend. Gavin Taylor, 28, suffered a severe head injury in the early hours of Sunday morning. It is believed he was in a taxi with a female passenger after a night out when the incident occurred, The Sun reports. Staci Hargreaves, 33, was charged Tuesday with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, an offence which carries a possible life sentence. It is alleged she used one of her needle-edged stiletto heeled shoes to stab Taylor in the face. The pointed...

AKRON, Ohio - A woman has been sentenced to a year of probation for attacking a fellow exotic dancer in the face with a stiletto heel at an Ohio club. In a deal with prosecutors, 22-year-old Chetania Davis pleaded guilty Tuesday in Akron to a misdemeanor assault charge.

I may disagree with what Ann Coulter says but I will defend to the death Oscar Wilde's right to say it. Describing the same kind of widow that set Coulter off, he quipped: "Her hair turned quite gold from grief." Wondering what life in America would be like if Coulter used a stiletto instead of a sledgehammer is a tempting but futile excursion into dreamland. Suppose, for example, she was confronted, like Jennie Churchill, with a pompous young man who boasted that his financée's virtue was "priced above rubies." Without missing a beat, Jennie said, "Try diamonds." But if the...

February 5, 2006 The M80 Stiletto Experimental Vessel was launched this week offering a sneak peak at the next generation of military vessels. The Stiletto is an operational experiment by the Pentagon’s Office of Force Transformation (OFT) and its revolutionary carbon fibre structure and hull enable it to operate in shallow water, with 50 knot speeds, stability and great stealth as part of its armoury. Costing US$12.5 million to develop and build, the 88ft vessel is capable of carrying 37 tonnes at speed over a range of 500 nautical miles. The patented M-hull design transitions automatically and efficiently through hydrostatic,...

Stealth weapons vs. donkey carts Posted: November 25, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 David H. Hackworth Once again, "shock and awe" thundered across Iraq for two explosive weeks. Then the insurgents responded to our high-tech air and ground hammer with return fire from four donkey-drawn carts toting homemade rocket launchers that hit one of the most heavily defended zones in Baghdad. Which says it all about the nature of modern guerrilla warfare. The Have-Nots – the guerrillas – use whatever they have at hand, the simplest weapons and tactics, to go up against the Have-It-Alls. In Iraq, it has...