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...with any new genre, there's lots of lingo to learn in order to speak the language of pre-conception fluently. Much of it will already be familiar to women who haunt fertility Web sites and message boards. TTC = trying to conceive. Aunt Flo, or AF, refers to the monthly visitor that makes for an especially unwelcome guest when trying to get baby on board. Murkoff devotes an entire page to other acronyms, alphabetized and far more obscure: If BD is baby dance, a.k.a. sex, then DP translates as dancing partner. There's also BFN (big fat negative...
...Kistner had given up hope of ever finding his great-aunt's killer. The retired police sergeant was just a rookie at the Long Beach Police Department in California when Maybelle Hudson, 80, was beaten, raped and strangled in her Inglewood garage after returning home from choir practice one day in April 1976. The last time Kistner called detectives at the Inglewood Police Department, in 2006, he was told that given the amount of time that had passed since the twice-widowed woman was murdered, the perpetrator was likely deceased or in prison...
...suspect, John Floyd Thomas Jr., had been arrested in late March and charged on April 2 with the rape and murders of two elderly women in the 1970s. According to police, DNA evidence also apparently tied Thomas to the crimes against Kistner's great-aunt. A grimmer scenario loomed, however: investigators now believe that Thomas was behind many more sexually-motivated murders and may turn out to be the most prolific serial killer in Los Angeles history...
...Kistner, who plans on attending Thomas' upcoming trials, the investigation's findings may finally bring some closure to the tragedy of his great-aunt's death. "Especially in my line of business," says the ex-cop, "we like closure; we like happy endings, I guess, if there can be a happy ending to this. You're always looking for the bad guy, especially someone who could do something to an old lady like that." He adds, "I plan on attending the trials when they come up for the personal satisfaction of actually physically seeing him in custody and knowing that...
...These days, the auctioneers are selling more than just art, antiques and the furniture from Aunt Esther's estate. As the economy fell, so did the demand for discretionary items sold at most community auctions across the country. Desperate for new revenue streams, auctioneers have started selling basic grocery store items to help pick up the slack. Hungry for bargains, shoppers have started bidding on fruits and vegetables. As long as the final offer comes in below the grocer's retail price, they'll save a few bucks on the essentials. "Right now, the auction business is in a downfall...