(UPI) 28 May 2008:

A couple who got married on April the 27^th are ordered to court on June 25^th. They are to answer a number of charges related to a fight with another wedding party.

Disorderly conduct and assault are among the charges, as well as public intoxication. Although the fight involved people from the other wedding party, it started as a marital tiff between the newlyweds.

I know getting married is a rather stressful time, but I would have thought that getting over the first argument could have waited a little longer. Maybe they have decided to get the worst of the marriage over and done with, and spend the rest of their married lives making up.

(SCIENCE DAILY) 3 April 2008:

New research shows that when women get married, they  do–on average–an extra seven hours a week of housework more than they did when they were single, while men do one hour less.

However, this trend appears to be changing. If we look at married women in their 20s (and thus those raised in more enlightened times) while housework was still not equally shared, the hours spent went up for both men and women upon marriage.

So to a large extent it’s a problem that’s already solved, we just need to wait for the older generations to pass on.

(THE ADVOCATE) 26 March 2008:

Thomas Beatie is a normal guy. He and his wife Nancy live in Oregon and are expecting their first child. Except Nancy is not the one carrying the child. Thomas is pregnant.  Thomas is transgender female to male, legally male, and legally married to Nancy. When Thomas had his sex reassignment procedures, he kept his female reproductive organs. Nancy has a hysterectomy and therefore is unable to carry a child for the couple. When the couple decided they wanted a child, Thomas stopped taking his testosterone injections. After four months, his body knew what to do. He was able to get pregnant without the aid of fertility drugs or any additional hormone treatments.  The sperm came from a sperm bank. Many people they’ve encountered are hostile and angry, but they are thrilled that the pregnancy is free from complications and they are expecting a baby girl on July 3.

(NEW YORK DAILY NEWS) 15 February 2008:

Fourteen couples won the right to get married at the Empire State Building on Valentine’s Day. According to the New York Daily News, “The Empire State Building weddings were arranced by the magazine Web site Brides.com, which asked readers to write about their connection with the building.”

One bride, Marlo Del Toro said her and her husband used to sit in their apartment together and watch the colors changing on the buildings. “The building’s been central to our lives together,” she said.

(NATION) 1 January 2008:

One of the great puzzles of epidemiology is that we know that marriage increases mens’ general good health and lifespan. However, only happy marriages (as opposed to all) do that for women. Now reseachers think they have found the mechanism.

By measuring cortisol levels (a stress hormone) they were able to show that married men bounce back from the pains and griefs of the working day better than single men do. But for women this was only true if they were in a happy marriage. And of course we already know that stress is an indicator of general good health.

Now all we have to do is work out why cortisol levels react this way to a happy or unhappy marriage….

(TMZ.COM) 20 December 2007:

NBA star Tony Parker, hubby to Desperate Housewives Eva Longoria, has filed a $20 million lawsuit against X17, the photo agency that published reports and text messages alleging that he cheated on Eva Longoria shortly after the couple were married.

X17 claimed that French model Alexandra Paressant had an affair for two months with Parker. Parker vehemently denies the allegations.

(MSNBC.COM) 3 October 2007:

A slightly puzzling result of some recent research into who gets a good night’s sleep and how. Men who sleep with their romantic partner get a better night’s sleep than women who sleep with theirs’.

Part of the explanation is that it is men who are more likely to snore. It’s also thought that women are more attuned to small noises, to sleeping more lightly anyway (in order to listen out for the children).

This finding might go some way to showing why married men are much happier and healthier than the unmarried: while married women are less healthy than their unmarried counterparts.

(DAILY MAIL) 23 August:

Why is it that tall women seem to have short husbands and boyfriends? A recent article in the Daily Mail seems to think that tall women have what short men have always wanted: height, and that that is the attraction. Short men are grateful for the attention and that is why tall women like them.

A pity that they didn’t consider the opposite: If the tall and the short only ever married like with like then the population would diverge, the tall becoming ever taller by the generations. But that’s just a wild idea.

What they did miss is that all of the short men they used as examples (Tom Cruise, Salman Rushdie, Rod Stewart) also have one other feature. They’re rich. Adds inches, that does.

(NPR.ORG) 26 June 2007:

His fiancée called off the wedding. So Layne Hess wanted a refund. He went to court, demanding payment for everything he did during their courtship. There was the cruise to Alaska, and the trip to France, and the vasectomy. Hess says he wouldn’t have spent all that money if they weren’t getting married. But the court turned him down, saying Jody Johnston never provided a money-back guarantee. She did, at least, return the ring.

(REUTERS) 07 March 2007:

The emails that helped to trigger off the cross country drive of the astronaut Lisa Novak to confront her love rival Colleen Shipman have been released in part as part of the evidence in her prosecution. Novak attacked Shipman and is now charged with attempted kidnapping.

Novak was married to someone else while fighting Shipman for a spaceman’s affections and the emails read like something out of MySpace, perhaps even more cringingly gushing and teenage.

Perhaps the best part of the story is that as one of the terms of Novak’s bail she must wear a GPS tag. Yes, they’ve put a global positioning device on an astronaut.