Is Walmart really the biggest problem in North Whitehall Township? I would contend the lack of our own police force is a bigger issue. Has everyone forgotten about all of the crime from last year? The brutal attack on the elderly woman? How about the safety of our roads? The roads in North Whitehall...

PROVIDENCE, R.I.—A Rhode Island lawyer has been nominated for a federal judgeship. President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated Jack McConnell for a seat on the...

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STEVE LeBLANC (Associated Press Writer) (AP) — The Massachusetts Senate is set to debate a bill Thursday designed to ban the sale of salty and sugary snacks and high-calorie sodas in public schools as the state looks to battle a rising tide of childhood...

RICK SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR: We have just gotten some tape in of Representative Patrick Kennedy going ballistic on the House floor. And his target is the...

, Half the world's 14 self-made female billionaires have struck it rich on China's mainland. They include Hong Kong entrepreneur Chu Lam Yiu, who peddles ingredients to China's tobacco companies, and Xiu Li Hawken, a...

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BLACKBURN, United Kingdom, March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Will the Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP Ban all Tobacco products on 21st June 2010? The MHRA, the nation's Health regulators, have created for...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's Carlos Slim, named the world's richest man on Wednesday, first showed a talent for business as a 10-year-old kid when he filled his pockets with pesos selling drinks and snacks to his...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican senator who held up action earlier this month on a bill to renew jobless benefits faced more criticism on Wednesday for blocking approval of President Barack Obama's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to the World Trade...

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You could smell them half a block down the street. My grandma, well into her 80s, was frying homemade doughnuts. It was the bottom of the Great Depression in the mid-1930s, when people would make the family's entire meal from a glass jar of dried beef in a flour-and-water sauce — which our GI's in World War.

A recent study examining the potential impact of sin taxes—increasing the cost of junk food, in particular—as a means to promote healthier choices found that, in a lab setting at least, when unhealthy foods cost more, people tended to eat them...

BOSTON—The Massachusetts Senate is weighing a bill that would ban the sale of salty and sugary snacks as well as high-calorie sodas in public schools. The bill would require the state Public Health Department to develop nutritional standards for all food sold in schools, including...

STEVE LeBLANC (Associated Press Writer) (AP) — The Massachusetts Senate is weighing a bill that would ban the sale of salty and sugary snacks as well as high-calorie sodas in public schools.

Charles Allen is used to a struggle. Born in Hamilton, Scotland, in 1957, he experienced poverty from the age of 14 when his father, a barber, died almost penniless and he could not afford to take up a place at Strathclyde...

A symbiotic land swap might result in multifaceted benefits for both the city and its Community Redevelopment Agency. City staff met with the CRA staff last week regarding the Heart of Boynton property...

CALGARY, Alberta, March 10, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Liberty Analytics Co., a leading provider of large, small- and micro-cap independent investment research, today initiated coverage on Star Scientific,...

BANGOR, Maine (AP) - Smokers suing Philip Morris and its parent company Altria Group over light cigarettes will have to start from scratch with their lawsuit in...

Three quarters of the 128 companies get a failing grade for their policies on marketing food to kids, according to a new report card from the Center for Science in the Public...