Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, October 25, 1995 TAG: 9510250093
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: B-6 EDITION: METRO
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FARMINGTON, Utah - A man who posed as a woman during a 3 1/2-year marriage was ordered to serve 9 months in jail Tuesday by a judge skeptical about whether the husband really had been duped.
``It is difficult for the court to believe the victim did not notice what he really was,'' Judge Rodney Page said.
Felix Urioste, 34, married Bruce Jensen in 1991 in Lyman, Wyo., claiming to be a woman who was pregnant with twins. Urioste later told Jensen the twins were stillborn.
Authorities have said the marriage was essentially celibate.
Prosecutors have described Jensen, a 39-year-old lab technician, as naive and said he married Urioste because he thought he might be the twins' father. Urioste was arrested as a man in June after running up $40,000 to $50,000 in bills on credit cards in the names of Jensen and Leasa Jensen. He pleaded guilty last month to communications fraud and forgery for signing Jensen's name to a loan advance.
- Associated Press
Veteran actress Mary Wickes dies
LOS ANGELES - Mary Wickes, the veteran comedienne who most recently delighted audiences as Aunt March in the feature film ``Little Women'' and as a tough-as-nails singing nun in ``Sister Act'' and its sequel, died Sunday night at UCLA Medical Center of complications after surgery. She was 85. Wickes acted on stage, screen and television for 67 years.
- Los Angeles Times
Chromium tests show genetic harm
Chromium picolinate, a dietary supplement popular among fitness buffs and people trying to lose weight, has been shown in laboratory tests on hamster cells to cause severe damage to chromosomes.
Although no animal studies of the supplement's cancer-causing potential have yet been done, the genetic changes observed in the laboratory suggest that this widely sold supplement could be carcinogenic.
Trace amounts of chromium are critical to the workings of insulin. Chromium picolinate, the most popular of the chromium supplements, is widely sold in health food stores, supermarkets and pharmacies.
The study was done at Dartmouth College and George Washington University Medical Center.
- The New York Times
Truant would pay, but mom has to do it
YORK, Pa. - Richard Edwards says he's willing to pay for his mistakes, but his mother can't afford to - and she's in jail because of it.
Regina Edwards was locked up more than a week ago on a 45-day sentence because she failed to pay $1,422 in truancy fines levied when her 16-year-old son repeatedly skipped school.
``It's just hard that I'm sending my mom to jail for something I did,'' Richard said. ``Here, I did it, and I want to own up to it. She tried and everything. Like, when it got to the point she told me to go to school, I don't listen.''
His sister, Bambi, 18, said the family couldn't afford to pay the fines. Her father is in prison.
Richard said he was willing to pay once he turned 21, but the state allows for only parents to be fined.
- Associated Press
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