ATLANTA (AP) — The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia.High rates of obesity and diabetes were...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A blast early Friday killed two police offers a day after a suicide bomber killed 19 people outside a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan, the latest attacks in an onslaught...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — UNICEF urged the world to help the 1 billion children still deprived of food, shelter, clean water or health care — and the hundreds of millions more threatened by violence...
(AP) — The state Department of Health and Hospitals says two men died last week from swine flu complications, bringing the total number of swine flu-related deaths in Louisiana to 35.Health officials...
BOSTON (AP) — Gay married couples suing the government over a federal law that doesn't recognize same-sex unions say there is "no legitimate or plausible" reason for having a federal definition of...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel moved Tuesday to approve a plan to build 900 more housing units in a Jewish neighborhood in the part of Jerusalem claimed by Palestinians, drawing harsh criticism from the...
ROME (AP) — Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, blamed for plunging his people into starvation, used his platform as Tuesday's opening speaker at the U.N. anti-hunger summit to decry what he called...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Seven years after she was abducted at knifepoint, Elizabeth Smart finally has an apology — and a guilty plea — from one of her kidnappers."I am so sorry, Elizabeth,...
(AP) — Friends and relatives of executed Washington, D.C., sniper John Allen Muhammad gathered in his hometown Tuesday for his funeral.Muhammad was put to death last week in Virginia for killing...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Worried that the Army may have missed red flags about the alleged shooter in the Fort Hood massacre, the Pentagon will likely launch an inquiry into how all the military services...
(AP) — Thousands of Louisiana residents are eligible for grants to pay for storm shutters and other hurricane protection improvements to their homes.This week, the state is mailing out applications...
(AP) — A new program is available in East Baton Rouge and surrounding parishes to help match people with community services so they can stay out of nursing homes.The idea is to help people find the...
