According to Reuters, an elderly Chicago woman has been living with two skeletons and a badly decomposed body — all belonging to her siblings — in a suburb of Chicago.

RANTS

According to the UPI, a blogger was sentenced to 20 years in prison for mocking Myanmar dictator Senior Gen. Than Shwe in an online poem.

According to the AP, a British pilot was talked safely down by a military pilot after being suddenly blinded by a stroke during a solo flight.

RAVES

According to Pet Pulse, a stray pit bull saved a Florida woman and her son from a robbery attack at knifepoint by charging the attacker.