Older adults may have better success at losing weight if they do it with the help of intensive behavioral therapy from dietitians, a new study suggests. Intensive behavioral therapy for obesity, or IBTO, is a customized treatment that helps people change their eating and exercise behaviors through a series of one-on-one counseling sessions. It’s also…… MORE
It was French maestro Zinedine Zidane who first inspired Lisa Zimouche to start kicking a football. The freestyler still remembers watching her hero lift the World Cup for France in 1998 and, from that moment, her heart was set. “I fell in love with how he played with the ball and I was like ‘Oh,…… MORE
Authorities are still trying to piece together what happened to the two Idaho children who have been missing for five months. In that time, their mother re-married and fled to Hawaii with her husband once police began investigating the disappearances. On Thursday, she was arrested. Lori Vallow, 46, is facing two counts of felony desertion…… MORE
A heartbroken community will come together Friday to say goodbye to a girl who was abducted and killed by a neighbor in South Carolina. The memorial service for Faye Marie Swetlik, 6, will be Friday at 7 p.m. at Trinity Baptist Church in Cayce. Faye’s family has said the memorial will be child friendly and…… MORE
Weeks after the novel coronavirus crisis began in December, there is still widespread confusion over the exact number of cases reported in China and whether the epidemic is finally stabilizing at the outbreak’s epicenter of Hubei province. On Thursday, China announced just 394 new confirmed cases, the lowest number of daily infections reported in weeks.…… MORE
Investigators have identified a suspect after three men were found dead this week at a cemetery in Southern California. Police issued an arrest warrant Thursday for Jose Luis Torres Garcia after the bodies were discovered Monday in Perris, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said. Garcia, 33, is wanted on three homicide warrants and unrelated misdemeanor…… MORE
A US Customs and Border Protection employee allegedly shot and killed his wife and two sons in Florida before killing himself, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. Police went to the family’s home around 3 p.m. Thursday after receiving a call from CBP that the man had not been heard from. Upon further investigation,…… MORE
The Democratic presidential contenders are racing to refill their campaign coffers — following costly battles in the early nominating states and the looming Super Tuesday threat from New York tycoon Michael Bloomberg, who has plowed nearly half a billion dollars of his fortune into the fight to become the party’s standard-bearer. The campaign filings rolling…… MORE
British backpacker Grace Millane was strangled to death, crammed into a suitcase and buried in a New Zealand woodland after a Tinder date in December 2018. On Thursday her killer, a 28-year-old man, was sentenced to life imprisonment with minimum 17 year non-parole period. The Courts of New Zealand said in a statement: “Overall, the…… MORE
Five Harvard students are suing university officials over Harvard’s investments in what they call the “prison-industrial complex.” The students are accusing the university’s president, a senior fellow of Harvard Corporation, and Harvard’s endowment manager, Harvard Management Company (HMC), of a “violation of fiduciary duty and breach of the Harvard charter.” Jason Newton, a spokesman for…… MORE
