A couch potato is an unhappy potato, a new study, published in the December issue of Social Indicators Research, concludes.

CNN, the cable news leader, is set to compete with the Associated Press, the largest newspaper wire service in the world, reports the New York Times.

Tobacco giant, R.J. Reynolds Company, has developed a more convenient way for nicotine addicts to get their “fix” without offending others and without breaking any smoking bans, reports The New York Times.

Packing on a few unwanted pounds? You may want to move to an older neighborhood, say the authors of a new study, which will be published in the September issue of the American Journal of Preventative Medicine.

In the past few weeks, thousands of Walmart store managers and department heads nationwide have been attending mandatory meetings designed to influence their vote this November, the Wall Street Journal has learned.

A man, who shot a police officer in the head four times during a traffic stop, claims self-defense, according to his defense attorney Larry Zuckerman.

Gas prices got you down? Don’t despair. There is, at least, one benefit to rising gas prices, say the authors of a new study released this month—fewer auto fatalities.

Sitting in the hospital emergency room for nearly 24 hours may be what caused a woman’s death, a report from the Medical Examiner suggests.

If prosecutors in Hamilton, Ohio have their way, there will be no more Perry Mason-type theatrics in the courtroom, at least, none that involve tears.

Shortly after seeing a flyer that a registered sex offender, a man that she recognized, had moved into her Puyallup, Washington neighborhood, Tammy Lee Gibson beat him with an aluminum baseball bat.

Mount Vernon’s school board voted unanimously to fire their middle school science teacher on Friday amid claims that he had burned a cross into one of his student’s arms.