Grandmother pins down mugger

An 83-year-old grandmother thwarted a would-be purse snatcher with a gas nozzle and an iron grip.

Bernie Garcia said a young man approached her at a gas station as she was buying fuel for her van and asked for money. When she told him she had spent all her spare change on gas, he tried to grab her purse.

She fought back, spraying his shirt with some gasoline. Both of them kept hold of the purse, and he pulled her to the ground and dragged her a short distance until another man confronted him.

Garcia and a witness identified one of the men inside as the attacker. He and two other men in the car were charged with robbery and conspiracy.

“They got caught and I’m so glad,” Garcia said.

Britney’s medical snppe

A UCLA Medical Center will fire some employees and discipline others for snooping at the confidential medical records of Britney Spears, who was hospitalised in its psychiatric ward, hospital officials said.

Jeri Simpson, the hospital’s director of human resources who was involved in the investigations of the confidentiality breach, confirmed the action but could not say how many employees were affected.

The hospital did not say when the snooping took place or which of Spears records were looked at.

100-year-old man weds third wife

A more than 100-year-old Saudi widower has married for the third time — to a 26-year-old woman.

Ahmed Ateeq Al-Hariri Al-Zahrani, who lives in Taif, near Mecca, faced no opposition from either his bride-to-be or his family when he decided to marry for the third time. His previous two wives are dead.

“We didn’t oppose dad’s marriage. We agreed to his marriage and we wish him happiness for the rest of his life,” Al-Zahrani’s oldest son Abdul Rahman told the Saudi Gazette newspaper.