Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Woman has baby daughter in-flight CHICAGO, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- In an incident right out of the movies, a woman went into labor and gave birth to a healthy baby girl on a Mexicana Airlines flight to Chicago Wednesday night. Advertisement When they asked if there was a doctor on the plane, cabin attendants hit the jackpot. "There was a doctor who happened to be flying who also happened to be an obstetrician-gynecologist," a fire department spokesman told the Chicago Tribune. "So she couldn't have been in better hands." Paramedics met the plane after it landed at O'Hare International Airport and the mother and baby were hospitalized in good condition. Laura Bush dodges fashion disaster WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The White House's latest crisis came in the form of a fashion disaster when three holiday party guests arrived wearing the same dress as first lady Laura Bush. Advertisement The president's wife, who was wearing the $8,500 red Oscar de la Renta dress for the official presidential holiday photo, chose not to say the course and went upstairs to change her outfit, CBS News reported Thursday. "She went upstairs and changed, very easy for her to do. It was the right thing to do, take the heat off the other women," said party guest Letitia Baldridge, Jacqueline Kennedy's Chief of Staff and White House social secretary. The first lady's office said Mr. and Mrs. Bush were amused by the incident, which the office said was a White House first. "They all should have congratulated one another on their good taste and the fact that they could afford the dress," Baldridge said. "Jacqueline Kennedy, when she was first lady made sure, and her couturiers made sure that nobody else wore that dress that season." Miserly millionaire dead year and a half THESSALONIKI, Greece, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Police in Thessaloniki, Greece, say a reclusive 78-year-old millionaire who lived frugally had been dead in his home about 18 months before being found. Police said the man, identified only as A.H., was found Saturday by a secondhand dealer who went into the condemned house looking for anything salvageable. Advertisement The man's remains were found on one of the beds surrounded by 30 bank books and bond purchase receipts showing he had about $1.7 million to his name when he died, Kathimerini reported Thursday. Police found 15 well-preserved suits in a closet but said the man lived the life of a pauper. "He hoarded his suits as he did his money but he lived like a tramp, rummaging through garbage," a policeman told Kathimerini. A medical examiner said he suspected death by natural causes but a full autopsy was scheduled, the report said. Police said the man had two brothers in Athens who would likely inherit his estate. Police: Man wrote fake check near 80 cops DETROIT, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- A Detroit man has been arrested after he allegedly tried to use a fake check at a Wal-Mart while 80 police officers were in the store. Calvin Fluckes is accused of trying to use a phony $848 check at the retail outlet while 80 uniformed cops were in the store for a charity event, the Detroit Free Press reported Thursday. "He has to be an idiot," Lt. David Marker told the Free Press. "I can't even imagine what he was thinking." Advertisement Police said Fluckes handed a poorly photocopied check to a cashier, who called over a manager and alerted the police. "He was immediately apprehended," Marker said. Fluckes, who was being held Wednesday in the Macomb County Jail on a $2,000 cash bond, could face up to 14 years in prison if convicted.
