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MOSCOW (Reuters Life!) – A Russian confessed to police he killed his grandmother because they could not agree on what program to watch on television, prosecutors said on Friday.

Arguments over who controls the television remote are familiar to most families. The suspect, from Russia’s Karelia region near Finland, took things to extremes by stabbing and bludgeoning to death his 81-year-old grandmother.

“When he started to testify to police, he said he killed her because they could not agree on what TV program they wanted to watch,” said Tatyana Kordyukova, a spokeswoman for the Karelia prosecutor’s office.

She said the man was drunk at the time. “He could not remember exactly what it was he wanted to watch.”

Police were called to the family’s apartment and found the woman’s body. Her grandson had fled but he was caught later and is now in prison awaiting trial.

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Mom Induces Labor So Husband Can Attend Game

CHICAGO — Chicago school teacher Colleen Pavelka knows how much her husband loves the Bears. Apparently, she loves him even more.

Colleen chose to have the birth of their second child induced a few days early so Mark Pavelka could attend Sunday’s NFC Championship showdown between the Bears and the New Orleans Saints.

The baby was due Monday. But when Colleen went in for an appointment Friday afternoon, her doctors told her she could opt for an early delivery. She decided to do so.

After nearly six hours of labor, 8-pound, 9-ounce Mark Patrick Pavelka was born Friday night.

Colleen Pavelka plans to catch the game on the plasma screen TV in her hospital room, while baby Mark Patrick is bundled up in the Bears receiving blanket his grandmother bought him for Christmas.

I find some humor in the fact that Lovie Smith can, if he wants to, tease Tony Dungie about being the second black head coach to lead a team to the Super Bowl only because Lovie’s team played and won about three hours earlier.

Congrats to them both!

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