Husbands

At first, the murder seemed to have all the markings of an attempted carjacking. When Los Angeles police officers reached the scene on the dark Boyle Heights street July 26, they found affluent software designer Bruce Cleland lying in a pool of blood across the street from his new black 4Runner. His distraught wife, Rebecca, said she had been knocked unconscious when she got out of the vehicle to check the tailgate and awoke to the gruesome sight.

BOSTON - First came the sound, loud and confusing. Then Lee Ann Yanni felt as if something had bumped into her left calf. "That's when I looked down and saw the bone sticking out and thought, 'I'm a physical therapist, and I know that's not a good thing,'" she said. "I could feel the blood just pouring from my leg almost like it was a hose. And it was like 10 seconds later, after the first explosion, that the second one happened. " Yanni tried to put weight on her left leg so she could hobble to safety, but it wouldn't hold.

I don't know how many of you watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm," the HBO series that started its new season this fall. Larry David has split up with his wife and is living with a beautiful woman . . . who was just diagnosed with cancer. The news causes his knees to buckle. Then the doctor tells him to be prepared for mood swings, depression, vomiting and unsightly hair loss. "Your life will be mostly taking her to appointments," the doctor adds. Larry asks if he'll be able to still play golf.

If any line item in the state or federal budgets cries out for more resources, or even just a little more respect, it's the arts and humanities. Never mind that many writers, artists and scholars have the fresh ideas that our times so desperately need. When politicians and columnists call for increased spending on STEM projects - that's science, technology, engineering and mathematics - don't they know they're alienating at least half the country? Let's reckon with the extent of the neglect.

Jenna Dewan-Tatum, wife of Channing Tatum, is baring her baby bump, and the woman makes pregnancy look good . She and Tatum, People's Sexiest Man Alive of 2012, met in 2006. They were struggling actors appearing in the dance flick "Step Up. " Tatum, who started his career as an exotic dancer, went on to step up his own career and happened to get a little beefcake movie called "Magic Mike" made about his life. PHOTOS: Hollywood baby boom The couple, both 32, got hitched in March 2009 and announced the baby news in December.

When psychiatrist Dr. Richard Roukema and history teacher Marge Roukema moved to the small town of Ridgewood, N.J., 32 years ago, they were known around town as "Dr. Roukema and his wife, Marge." Years later, when she became a local school official, they were referred to as "Dr. Roukema and the vice president of the school board, Marge Roukema." In 1981, after she was elected to the U. S.

Ronald Adkins, husband of the Portland, Ore., woman who committed suicide with the assistance of a doctor near here last week, tried to leave the area quickly on the afternoon of his wife's death and initially tried to evade police questioning, state police and local prosecutors said.

Doctors successfully removed a kidney from an Orange County woman Wednesday and transplanted it into her husband, a gravely ill diabetic, marking yet another milestone in the lives of a Mission Viejo couple whose story has drawn national attention. With network television cameras taping their every move, doctors operated on Victoria Ingram-Curlee, 45, for two hours, then spent another hour preparing four arteries in her left kidney for insertion into her husband, Randall Curlee, 46. Dr.

Husbands of working wives experience lower levels of job and life satisfaction than do husbands of non-working wives, a study out of Rutgers University has shown. Regardless of the husband's age, income bracket or educational level, the study found that a wife's employment had a negative effect on her husband's mental health.

The husband of Assemblywoman Jackie Speier (D-Burlingame) has died of injuries he suffered in an automobile accident, her office announced Wednesday. Dr. Steven K. Sierra, 52, who married Speier in 1987, died late Tuesday night after a crash several hours earlier in which he was broadsided by a driver who apparently ran a red light at a San Mateo intersection. Speier, 43, has represented part of San Francisco and San Mateo counties for seven years.

A woman could be sentenced to life in prison for allegedly cutting off her husband's penis and throwing it into the garbage disposal, Orange County prosecutors said. Catherine Kieu, 50, faces felony charges of torture and aggravated mayhem, with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a knife, court records show. Kieu was arrested the night of July 11, 2011, after she and her 60-year-old husband, whose name has not been released, apparently argued about the possibility of a friend staying at their home, prosecutors said.

That mysterious new dent on the car? Chances are, if the husband did it, he'll take the "wasn't me" route and lie about it. And, of course, the faithful wife will believe him. Insure.com polled 1,000 married adults last month to find out how honest they are about owning up to traffic accidents, traffic tickets, auto insurance matters and more. Someone must have hit my car in the parking lot: When the results for husbands and wives were studied, the poll showed that 42% of the husbands dinged the car and blamed someone else.

Opening statements were slated to begin Wednesday in the trial of a Garden Grove woman accused of lacing her husband's dinner with drugs, cutting off his penis and tossing it in a garbage disposal. Catherine Kieu, 50, faces felony charges of torture and aggravated mayhem, with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a knife, the Orange County district attorney's office said. If convicted, she faces a maximum sentence of life in state prison with the possibility of parole.

The wife of a former justice of the peace has been charged with capital murder in connection with the slayings of a northern Texas district attorney, his wife and an assistant district attorney, authorities said Wednesday. Kim Lene Williams, 46, was arrested early Wednesday and is being held on a $10-million bond, officials said at a brief news conference outside the Kaufman County jail. "We're not answering anymore questions today," Kaufman County sheriff's spokesman Lt. Justin Lewis said in a telephone interview.

Tiger Woods has been the butt of many jokes since his marital meltdown in 2009, and new girlfriend Lindsey Vonn's ex-husband, Thomas Vonn, has joined the chorus of would-be comedians. Woods came under scrutiny on Friday night after he took a questionable drop following his watery approach at No. 15 during the second round of the Masters tournament. His original shot struck the flagstick on the fly and drew back into Rae's Creek in front of the green. It seems Masters officials took some phone calls from television viewers who called out Tiger for taking his drop from behind his original spot when he determined the designated drop zone was less than desirable.

A Beverly Hills man suspected of murdering his wife is using a federal civil rights lawsuit to try to force police to end their  four-year probe of her death, lawyers for the city contend. Gary Klein, whose wife, Rina, 41,  died in a hospital in May 2009 after suffering seizures, remains a “person of interest” in an active investigation into her death, according to legal papers filed by Beverly Hills. Klein “wants the police to close their investigation into his wife's death and has chosen this civil lawsuit as a way to try to bring that about,” the city says in a motion to put Klein's suit on hold pending resolution of the criminal case.

Re "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" (" 'What About Me?' Asks Husband," May 30): I could not believe your article. Brenda is working, taking care of their child and responsible for cleaning, cooking, etc. And still she has to cater to Rick's selfishness and explain to him why she's so tired. If Rick would open his eyes and look around, maybe he would see that the dishes are piled up, laundry needs to be done and dinner cooked. Apparently he is '90s enough to agree to his wife working outside the home but not enough to help around the house.

Despite speculation that the Supreme Court is ready to reconsider its abortion rulings, the justices Monday refused to give a husband the right to block his wife's decision to have an abortion. The high court action cuts off a novel line of attack by anti-abortion lawyers who contended that prospective fathers had rights equal to mothers in deciding the fate of their "unborn child."

Former First Lady Nancy Reagan said she is "terribly saddened" by the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and described her as a "true champion of freedom and democracy. " In a statement released Monday, Nancy Reagan acknowledged the "very special relationship" between Thatcher and her husband, the late President Ronald Reagan. Their relationship was developed "as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history," the statement said.

Jenna Dewan-Tatum, wife of Channing Tatum, is baring her baby bump, and the woman makes pregnancy look good . She and Tatum, People's Sexiest Man Alive of 2012, met in 2006. They were struggling actors appearing in the dance flick "Step Up. " Tatum, who started his career as an exotic dancer, went on to step up his own career and happened to get a little beefcake movie called "Magic Mike" made about his life. PHOTOS: Hollywood baby boom The couple, both 32, got hitched in March 2009 and announced the baby news in December.