Woman charged with poisoning 5-week-old granddaughter with salt: “A woman has been charged with poisoning her 5-week-old granddaughter by pouring salt into the infant’s formula, authorities said.

Police said that Merry Long, 43, poured about two cups of salt into a can of powdered baby formula because she was angry at her son and his girlfriend, who is the child’s mother.” San Francisco Chronicle [This could instead have been a part of the ‘Annals of Depravity’ Dept., of course. The ‘Hell Readies a Room’ designation, by the way, is courtesy of Mark Morford, who writes the hilarious ‘Morning Fix’ e-column at SF Gate. I find nothing hilarious about this item, however, in case you wondering.]