The best alibi
A Texas man serving a life sentence for armed robbery has had his conviction overturned, after he remembered that he was in jail at the time of the crime. Lawyers for LaDondrell Montgomery, 36, say he failed to tell them of his ironclad alibi before his trial because Montgomery—a serial offender—has been in and out of jail so many times that he “just couldn’t remember, for that particular date, where he was.”
Salma Hayek's prayer
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Salma Hayek was flat-chested until she prayed for bigger breasts. The famously buxom Mexican actress, 45, says that she was a much-teased “skinny tomboy” as an adolescent and was “really scared” that her breasts would never develop. So she sought divine intervention. “I went to a church that had a saint that was supposed to do a lot of miracles,” she says. “I put my hands in the holy water and went, ‘Please, Jesus, give me some boobs.’” There was no overnight miracle, but within a couple of years, her prayers were answered.
Stray cat inherits a fortune
A formerly stray Italian cat has just inherited more than $15 million. Real estate investor Maria Assunta died last month at 94 and, having no heirs, left her entire fortune to Tommasino, a stray cat she had adopted. Assunta’s former nurse was appointed trustee of Tommasino’s millions and given the job of satisfying the cat’s needs—which Assunta’s lawyer said won’t be hard. “He is happy with a saucer of milk and some biscuits,” the lawyer said.
