LIBrides.com Web News Archive

Foreign brides swamp refuges (Stuff) - About 400 mail-order brides and women married for dowry money are seeking refuge each year after being abused and dumped by their husbands.

Here comes the trivia (Seattle Times) - "Here Come the Brides" was based on the true story of Seattle's Mercer Girls, also known as Mercer's Belles.

Here Comes the.... Bill! (WLOX-TV Biloxi) - Nuptial sticker shock is a sobering fact for brides and grooms as wedding bells produce ever-larger wedding bills.

Financial Literacy ABCs (KPLC) - Special from CSMonitor.com Here Comes the.... Bill! Nuptial sticker shock is a sobering fact for brides and grooms as wedding bells produce ever-larger wedding bills.

Brides Gain Free Online Access to Professional Wedding Planner (PR Web) - New website allows you to email your wedding dilemma to a professional and get next-day answers posted in the form of a lesson for other brides to share. (PRWEB May 13, 2006) Trackback URI: http://www.prweb.com/zingpr.php/UHJvZi1Qcm9mLUNyYXMtRmFsdS1IYWxmLVplcm8=

NZ Women`s Refuge calls for law review (AngolaPress) - WELLINGTON, May 15 -- About 400 mail-order brides and women married for dowry money are seeking refuge each year in New Zealand after being abused and dumped by their husbands, said Women`s Refuge on Sunday.

Tagged tortoise finds his way home (Personal Computer World) - A tortoise who disappeared from his home in Cardiff in August 2005 has been returned to his owner thanks to a microchip ID. Horace the tortoise went missing from the St. Brides Super Ely part of Cardiff last year.

Visionary Director Mary Zimmerman Will Re-Imagine a Favorite for Goodman Theatre (Playbill via Yahoo! News) - Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls announced May 12 the addition of Mirror of the Invisible World-a critical and popular success originally produced in the intimate Goodman Studio in 1997 and now re-imagined for the Albert stage-as a part of his 20th anniversary season in 2006-07.

New DVD Releases (AP via Yahoo! News) - Selected home-video releases:

1953 raid roused sympathy for town (Seattle Times) - Horrified by stories of rape, incest and men taking young girls as brides, the new governor of Arizona quietly made plans to invade this...