daughter joins surgeon for last op - Stuff
27 May 2012, 4:16 pm
A respected Waikato doctor is retiring his scalpel and scrubs and waving goodbye to the operating theatre after nearly four decades as a vascular and thoracic surgeon. Ross Blair, 70, has done "too many surgeries to put a number on" and performed his final ...

Bank Of America Returns Foreclosed Home To Dirma Rodriguez And Disabled daughter - Huffington Post
25 May 2012, 6:56 pm
There's finally some good news for Dirma Rodriguez and her three children. The family was evicted from the Los Angeles home they'd lived in for over 25 years after they fell behind on a loan. Rodriguez's daughter, Ingrid Ortiz, is a 27-year-old ...

Nas' New Video Is Through His daughter's Eyes - MTV
25 May 2012, 5:59 pm
Nas is notoriously private, but on his latest single, "daughters," the Queensbridge Don gets pretty personal. He first rapped about baby Destiny Jones on his 1994 single "The World is Yours," but now Baby Des is a full-blown teenager, and in the video ...

Joe Biden Reflects on Immense Grief After Loss of Wife, daughter - ABC News
25 May 2012, 5:16 pm
Vice President Joe Biden today delivered a deeply personal and, at times, emotional address to survivors of slain U.S. military service members, recounting his struggle with intense grief after his wife and daughter were killed in a car accident almost 40 ...

Florida man allegedly ties up 4-year-old daughter so he can play video games - FOX News
25 May 2012, 4:54 pm
SARASOTA, Fla. – A Florida father was charged with child abuse after allegedly tying up his 4-year-old daughter with rope in the kitchen of the family home so he could play video games in peace. Heath Howe, 27, grabbed his daughter while she ...

Millionaire's daughter jailed for two years for part in London riots - The Guardian
25 May 2012, 2:02 pm
A millionaire's daughter has been jailed for two years for driving looters on a late-night crime spree at the height of last summer's riots. Laura Johnson, 20, chauffeured the group through London on 8 August in her black Smart car. As they ...

The 'Inappropriate' Outfit That Got My daughter Into Trouble At School - Huffington Post
24 May 2012, 12:52 pm
Yesterday I got one of "those" phone calls that parents dread. Admittedly it was rather low on the scale of parental dread. One might reasonably say it was close to the bottom of the dreaded scale, but it was on there. My daughter had been escorted to the ...

Mother shocked by daughter's alleged murder plot against her - Los Angeles Times
23 May 2012, 5:18 pm
HESPERIA — Worried that her daughter may be on drugs, or worse, Angelica Aquirre did what any parent of a rebellious 13-year-old might do. She cracked down, set a curfew and thought about moving closer to her family in Mexico. Now a distraught Aquirre is ...

Cuban first daughter Mariela Castro known for speaking her mind, much like her uncle Fidel - Washington Post
22 May 2012, 2:20 pm
HAVANA — She has her uncle’s penchant for speaking her mind. From her father, she inherited a disciplined tenacity. But Mariela Castro, a married mother of three and member of Cuba’s most powerful family, has paved her own way in making ga ...

'Coal Miner's daughter' Loretta Lynn Married at 15, Not 13 - Hollywood Reporter
19 May 2012, 10:49 am
The country legend's birth certificate shows she was born on April 14, 1932, which makes her 80 years old, and undermines her teenage bride backstory. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Country music legend Loretta Lynn is three years older than she has led people ...