A Muslim woman wearing a head scarf has been handcuffed and briefly jailed in Douglasville, Georgia for violating a courthouse ban on headgear.

A bailiff handcuffed and brought Lisa Valentine, 40, before Judge Keith Rollins when she uttered an expletive after being refused entry to the Douglasville Municipal Court on Tuesday morning. The judge then ordered her jailed for 10 days for contempt of court but Valentine was released Tuesday evening for an unknown reason after the Council on American-Islamic Relations called for an investigation of the incident.

A woman convicted of murder was given permission to take her infant daughter to prison with her, enabling her to look after the baby during her four-year sentence.

Imprisoned for fatally shooting her common-law husband in their Prince George home back in 2006, Lisa Anne Whitford, 37, gave birth to her baby last March, while she was being held in custody.

A 200-pound potbellied pig named Romeo is living as a major part of the household of a family in St. Albans, Queens.

The part-Vietnamese potbellied, who was bought from a farm in Long Island, was described by the Cummings family to be completely housebroken, and has never brought any complaints from the neighbors. He was reported to consume three pounds of pellet food daily, and is taken for a walk four times a day without a leash.

A life-sized sculpture of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud depicted as hanging from a noose alarmed residents of Grand Rapids, who saw it hanging from the top of the Trade Center Building - a scene that very accurately resembled a suicide case.

The sculpture, "Man Hanging Out" created by David Cerny, which showed a life-sized body of a man hanging from a rod by his hand, is currently touring the world and being displayed in a number of cities in Europe and the United States.

Contrary to common notion that WAGs are nothing but party-loving clothes animals, a recent study conducted among sports wives and girlfriends revealed they are actually serious in their studies.

The government-funded Learning and Skills Council (LSC), says most of the so-called "Wags,' the popular acronym for wives and girlfriends of sportsmen, gained at least the equivalent of five good General Certificate of Certified Secondary Education (GCSE).