Tammy Woods did not go to church New Year's Eve for the chance to win a new $120,000 home. But the absence was worth it, as the Texan housewife's key was the one that unlocked the home's front door.

After 18 years of living as a fugitive, an escaped inmate turns himself in. Hernando Hennessy-Rossi was 39 when he escaped from a federal minimum security prison camp at Eglin Air Force Base near Pensacola, Florida.

Sheryl Swoopes of the WNBA's Houston Comets, opens up to ESPN The Magazine about being a lesbian because she's "tired of having to hide my feelings about the person I care about. " Swoopes, honored last month as the WNBA's Most Valuable Player, adds that she didn't always know she was gay and fears that coming out could jeopardize her status as a role model, "Do I think I was born this way? No. And that's probably confusing to some, because I know a lot of people believe that you are. "

A man is charged Wednesday for interfering with a flight crew after he strikes a Frontier Airlines flight attendant before being subdued by other passengers and duct-taped into submission. Jason Glen Tervort, 26, hit a female flight attendant, yelled profanities, spit at and bit other passengers while on a Tuesday evening flight from Houston to Denver, according to a complaint filed by the FBI, reports Reuters.

A man is arrested by authorities who claim he was interferring, after saving a swimmer caught in swirling river currents. Dave Newman disobeyed repeated orders to leave the water. After rescuing the swimmer, he was charged with interferring with public duties. After Abed Duamni, 35 of Houston, Texas thanked Newman for saving his life in front of the police, he was taken into custody and later released on $2,000 bail.