At 13:00 GMT Spiller said he was feeling better after being allowed to make a phone call to his girlfriend, but just over an hour later a prison officer looked in on him and saw him hanging.

BBC: Billy Spiller

Plant geneticist Pamela Ronald was just tagging along on a kayaking trip with a girlfriend when she met Raoul Adamchak 15 years ago.

FORBES: Green Genes

So when a blossoming blowout between the University of Alabama and some other team in Monday night's college football championship floated into yawnfest territory, the electronic eyes of ESPN naturally went wandering -- settling on a brunette bombshell who just happens to be the girlfriend of Crimson Tide quarterback AJ McCarron.

CNN: Game? What game? There's a pretty woman in the stands!

And in a dramatic twist, Spinner introduced into evidence a letter Harman had written to her girlfriend, Kelly Bryant, just five days before the first incident of abuse she was charged with.

NPR: Harman Convicted for Role in Abu Ghraib Abuse

Then I went on a vacation with my girlfriend on my boat, and the first night I was just not able to sleep.

FORBES: Passions and Pursuits

Zac Rantz of Nixa, Missouri, has gone to quite a few ceremonies with his girlfriend of eight months only to find that other guests think "just dating" isn't quite good enough.

CNN: Angst of being single in wedding season