Passengers in a small small plane sustained minor injuries after the crashing in someone's front yard shortly after taking off. Then, the family of three called a taxi to take them to the hospital. The pilot, Paul Kaemmerling, his wife Kim and their 14-year-old daughter from Liberty, Texas were all on board the plane when it either lost power or hadn't gained enough altitude, investigators told a local NBC affiliate.

A 79-year-old man watching the construction of a church here from inside his car died when a crane hoisting a steeple collapsed and crashed on him Thursday. Winfred Stafford of Oklahoma City was crushed in the front seat of his Toyota Avalon in the parking lot of the new Grace Assembly of God church.

An English couple who schemed to fake the husband's death in order to collect the insurance money has been sentenced to more than six years each in prison. The plot of the deceitful couple began to unravel in December 2007, five years after John Darwin and his wife conspired to fake his death in a canoeing accident, when John, 57, walked into a London police headquarters saying he had amnesia.

Nearly 20 Nepalese girls were recently rescued from slavery, made to perform in one of India's biggest circuses, the Raj Mahal. The London-based Esther Benjamins Trust is responsible for the rescues. The organization, named for the deceased wife of Philip Holmes, a retired British army colonel who formed the Trust, reunites girls who have been sold into circuses with their families. It also educates them at centers in Nepal.

Suspicious wives from Persian Gulf states are eyeing cosmetic stores in Kuwait that sell a magic potion to catch cheating husbands. Several women, including some from Bahrain, are on the waiting list to purchase Ka-Fashto, which translates to "key to truth," an herbal medicine that claims to detect cheating husbands by their odor.