Barbara Roberts was faced with the decision to either care for her 18-month-old granddaughter, whose parents were stranded in New Orleans, or leave her with strangers to make her assembly line job. She decided on the former and was subsequently fired. Roberts says she wasn't even sure her daughter and son-in-law were alive when she called the Positronic Industries factory in Mount Vernon the day Hurricane Katrina made landfall.

Hurricane Katrina was not kind to the regions of Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida. However, that has not stopped a Gulfport, MS doctor from getting his 15-minutes of fame.

News reports indicate a Malaysian man, about to jump to his death from a highway overpass, changes his mind after being told his pet dog is dying. The 40-year-old man recently lost his job and threatened to jump from a 33-foot bridge in Kuala Lumpur Sunday. Rescue workers asked the man to think of his wife and kids, but to no avail.

A Hollywood producer apparently suffered a fatal heart attack before falling on top of his daughter and suffocating her to death, according to a coroner's report. The body of Terry Carr, 62, toppled onto his 9-year-old daughter as she slept in the cargo area of their SUV, leaving her unable to escape or breathe, according to Lake County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Russ Perdock. Carr and his daughter, Arieka, were found August 1, The Associated Press reports.

People are paying $7 to see Chicago's garbage and sewage sites in tour called "Down in the Dumps". The nearly three-hour bus tour of the far South Side includes water treatment plant, recycling center and landfills. It is a chance for residents, environmentalists and visitors to learn more about what happens to garbage once it leaves their trash cans.