Linda Marks is a Florida psychic who has recently gained notoriety, not for her success as a psychic, but for her lengthy rap sheet. Marks was previously sued by over a dozen former clients who say she stiffed them out of over $1 million when they visited her Delray Beach business. She and her husband, James, pleaded guilty in December 2002 to reporting their car stolen to defraud their insurance company. They were placed on five years' probation.

Mahatma Gandhi's family is pleading with the Indian government to force an Australian food take-out restaurant called Handi Ghandi -- "Great Curries. . . No Worries" -- to stop using the vegetarian pacifist to sell its food. According to its Web site ( www. handighandi. com ), the company sells a range of meat and vegetarian curries -- including beef, which is sacred to Hindus and forbidden.

Two Cable repairmen become heroes after rescuing a 10-year-old boy who feel into a swimming pool and remained under eight feet of water for several minutes. Jamario Covington fell into the pool, sunk to the bottom and stopped breathing. A babysitter thought he joking, but realized the boy was in trouble after considerable time passed.

Bangkok police say a young man found dead Thursday committed suicide by applying super glue to his nose and mouth, suffocating to death. The body is found Thursday morning in his bedroom, with a note stating, "Here is all that I have, take what you please. "

An 80-year-old Italian retiree, who lived alone with seven cats and was adopted by a family, after placing an ad in the classifieds begging for company, skipped out on them, leaving behind a dentist's bill for $2,860. Since taking off, Angelozzi has sent the family two checks to cover the cost; checks later discovered to be stolen from another family that had also taken in the con artist.