The young man came from a prominent family in the southern Egyptian province of Qena, one of Egypt’s poorest and most conservative areas that is also home to the famed ancient Egyptian ruins of Luxor. The man was rushed to the hospital but doctors were unable to reattach the severed member, the official added citing the police report filed after the incident.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the press, added that the man was still recovering in the hospital. Traditionally, marriages in these conservative part of southern Egypt are between similar social classes and often within the same extended families — and are rarely for love.

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Chapter Two: Daynights and Nightmoons

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Sharon Dierking got a taste of the movement when she pulled up to the window at a Starbucks on U.S. 280 and the barista told her the driver in the car ahead of her had paid for her order. “I was completely dumbfounded, but I was thrilled,” she said. Dierking was last in line that day, but was able to return the kindness to another at a Starbucks in Inverness a few days later. “It makes you feel good and it brightens your day,” she said.

A Starbucks spokeswoman said the Seattle-based company promoted a Cheer Pass program in 2007 to remind customers to spread kindness, but the recent phenomenon is “consumer-driven.” Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of the book “Pay It Forward,” launched the movement in 2000. Hyde wrote the book after two strangers helped her when she was stranded on a California road and her car caught fire. Stacie Elm, a barista at an Alabaster Starbucks, said a line of five cars recently paid it forward. Customers are usually surprised to find out their order is already paid for, she said.

“Most are like, ‘You’re kidding,’” she said.

Prosecutors said Hunt owed Duquesne Light more than $1,500 and tried to trick the company into believing she had filed for bankruptcy protection so the wouldn’t try to collect the debt and shut off her power in the process. Hunt faked the document in October 2005. It wasn’t immediately clear how the delinquent bill was resolved. Hunt’s public defender said she can’t comment.

He said the teacher told Edgewood High School administrators that the students, all cheerleaders, asked her to take them to the bar in February. The teacher told school officials in an e-mail that she got permission from the parents of the 17- and 18-year-olds to bring them to the club. The teacher taught marketing at the school and previously served as a coach for the district’s eighth-grade cheerleaders.

At their funeral Wednesday, friends and relatives described the two as inseparable. Some found comfort knowing neither would have to live without the other. The Yinglings were married in 1941. Both were born on northeast Kansas farms and were active in Troy as members of their church and civic organizations.

“There’s no way she should be alive other than a miracle from God,” said Sheriff Mike Byrd of Jackson County, Miss.

Byrd said deputies were looking for Sexton’s husband, Donald Ray Sexton, earlier in the week to give him a document ordering him to stay away from his wife. Court records show he was put on probation for six months on April 9 for domestic violence.

He showed up at their home in rural Jackson County in Southeast Mississippi about 12:10 a.m. Tuesday and confronted his wife as a relative ran next door to call police, the sheriff said.

“She was at her bed, and he shot her right in the head,” Byrd said. “Then he went out on the back porch and shot himself.”

A deputy was greeted by the woman when he arrived minutes after she was shot with the slug from a .380-caliber handgun.

“When the officer got there she said, `What’s going on?’ She was holding a rag on her head and talking. She was conscious, but she was confused about what had happened,” he said. “She had made herself some tea and offered the officer something to drink.”

Byrd said the bullet apparently passed through the lobes of the woman’s brain without causing major damage. She was rushed to a Mobile hospital by a helicopter.

While such cases may be rare, a neurosurgeon who wasn’t involved in Sexton’s case said such an outcome is possible. Medical journals also confirm people have been shot in the head with little or no lasting injury.

“There is a space in the brain where a missile could pass without doing any major damage. Is it possible? Yes. It would be rare,” said Dr. Patrick Pritchard, an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.

The sheriff called the case bizarre.

“You just don’t hear of something like this. Somebody gets shot in the head and they’re dead,” Byrd said.

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By JAY REEVES, Associated Press Writer, Associated Press writer Holbrook Mohr in Jackson, Miss., contributed to this report.

A court in the Red Sea city of Jeddah finalised the split — the first known divorce in Saudi Arabia by text message — after summoning the two relatives to check they had received word of the husband’s intention, the paper said. Saudi Arabia practises a strict form of Islamic Sharia law, and clerics preside over Sharia courts as judges. Under the law a man can divorce his wife by saying “I divorce you” three times. The Saudi man was in Iraq to participate in “what he described as ‘jihad’,” according to the Arab News. Many Saudis have gone to fight with al Qaeda militants against the Iraqi government and U.S. forces.

(Reporting by Asma Alsharif)

Police said the suspect had threatened to cut the store clerk’s neck if money wasn’t handed over. Police said the suspect escaped with some money, but he dropped much of it when he was hit with the ladder. Police are still searching for the suspect.