A writer who penned semi-autobiographical books where he claimed to be a 25-year-old male prostitute and drug addict is actually a woman. JT LeRoy gained a number of fans after writing about growing up as a child hustler who was HIV-positive. But LeRoy is really Laura Albert, a 40-year-old woman, reports Ireland On-Line.

Americans think more highly of first lady Laura Bush than they think of her husband. When asked about the president, only 46 percent said they had a favorable opinion of President Bush and his top aides.

Fans from rival football teams profess their love for each other during a game Sunday night, and end up getting engaged. Jim Lang, a 41-year-old New England Patriots fan, proposed to Laura Peters, a devoted Pittsburgh Steelers fan, during halftime of the game at Heinz Field. Peters accepted the proposal.

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.

NEW DEHLI, India(AHN)- Born with male and female genitals, Twenty-nine-year-old rubber tapper Kuttiyamma had been in love with, Laura, for 15 years. According to the Hindustan Times, Kuttiyamma made the decision to become a man and create a new post-surgery identity, Binu. But Laura became engaged to another man and Binu is suing her for breach of trust after spending 50,000 rupees ($1,150) on the sex change in southern Kerala state. "She had agreed to marry me after the surgery," the paper quoted Binu saying in the petition. "I took loans to pay the hospital bills. " Laura's fianc