No one feels lonelier than the person trying to quit smoking ... but despite the isolated feeling, people kick the habit in clusters, US researchers have found.

NORWALK Norwalk and Bellevue are not big cities. Norwalk isn't even among the top 100 largest cities in Ohio -- and Norwalk is nearly double the size of Bellevue.

Area third-graders in Muskogee, Fort Gibson and Hilldale schools fell short of a state law mandating that 100 percent of their classes read at or above grade level this year.

"There are people having to make a decision whether to pay their utilities or rent. . . In a society like ours, that shouldn't be happening." Becoming a teacher was the only career Marlene White ever wanted to have, but she hopes to change all that on

Although life expectancy has been increasing in the U.S. for most people, there is a growing disparity in mortality depending on race, income and geography, according to a study published on Monday in the online journal PLoS Medicine, the New York Times r