In 2007, the state joined just two others — Alabama and Mississippi — where 30 percent or more of adults are obese, according to new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. Experts point to a collection of personal and public choices as driving the rise of obesity in Southern states such as Tennessee, [...]

Patty Tanksley and her husband were fed up with borrowing money from friends and relatives in order to put food on the table.
Eventually she turned to the Smyrna/La Vergne Food Bank for help. She was “a little embarrassed” to do so because she volunteered there when it first opened in the 1980s.
“We had to or [...]

BAND CAMP BEGINS: The Brattleboro Area Band Camp is gearing up to offer young musicians an inspiring summer opportunity for learning and playing.
The week of Aug. 18, band students entering grades 5-8 will come together to form two ability based bands at Oak Grove School. Mornings will be spent developing ensemble and individual skills, [...]

On Thursday morning, two young men were in their bedrooms, safe and separated by only a ceiling.
In the apartment upstairs, Bukhari Washington, 15, had just gone to sleep. At work at the local recreation center the previous day, he and four friends had practiced lip-synching New Edition’s “Candy Girl” for a coming talent show. [...]

Nonprofits around the Seacoast are always in need of individuals with a wide variety of interests and expertise to serve as organizational leaders on boards of directors.
Serving as a board member is a great way to share your knowledge in guiding organizations that make a difference, build your resume and network with like-minded individuals. This [...]

Waterbury and the muslin gray sky has yielded to a pale, hopeful blue. It has been hot this week, which, coupled with a cottony humidity, has lured apartment dwellers outdoors, where they sit on cement stoops, nursing fussy infants and slurping down plastic cups of cool ice water. At the corner of Central Avenue and [...]

n the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country, Belisca Destra and his family enjoyed modest success. Destra owned a small business, a hardware store, and served as pastor of a Christian church. His four children did well in school.
The family’s enterprising spirit is the kind that might offer hope for Haiti’s future. But the death threats against [...]

Nearly three years ago, registered nurse Barbara Roles, 69, volunteered a month of service in Baton Rouge, La. to help treat 100 to 200 patients a day after Hurricane Katrina.
“You found out a lot about yourself and your strengths,” said Roles, recently named “Volunteer of the Year” for the Lower Shore Chapter of the American [...]

Linda Johnson, registered nurse at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital, talks about the Henry Ford International Travel Health Clinic and gives tips to travelers on trip preparations.
Q. What is offered at the Travel Health Clinic?
A. We are able to give customized information on individual travel destinations on topics such as environmental issues, political background, and [...]

Unite calls for the immediate reopening of pay talks - The staggering 35 % British Gas price hike has dealt ‘a deadly blow’ to the government’s policy to hold NHS pay below the rate of inflation for the next three years.
Unite the Union, the largest union in the country, called for the immediate reopening of [...]