House panel kills school vending machine ban
Idaho Statesman - Kids, your candy is safe at least for another year. The House Education Committee voted Friday against a bill that would have banned vending machines in elementary schools and limited their contents to healthy snacks in the upper grades
800-Pound Man Needs Help To Receive Lifesaving Program
Click2Houston.com - HOUSTON — The thought of losing 10 to 20 pounds may seem tough. But, imagine trying to lose hundreds of pounds. Weight loss becomes about saving your life more than looking better. A Houston-area man hopes a hospital in another state can help him
Vote blocks vending ban
Idaho Press-Tribune - BOISE Kids, your candy is safe at least for another year. The House Education Committee voted Friday against a bill that would have banned vending machines in elementary schools and limited their contents to healthy snacks in the upper grades
Vote blocks vending ban
Idaho Press-Tribune - BOISE Kids, your candy is safe at least for another year. The House Education Committee voted Friday against a bill that would have banned vending machines in elementary schools and limited their contents to healthy snacks in the upper grades
Teens caught, charged in Sylvania vandalism
Times-Journal - DeKalb County authorities have charged two students, who apparently used their bicycles as get-away vehicles, with the weekend vandalism at Sylvania School. DeKalb County Investigator Rhonda Jackson said a 12-year-old boy and 13-year-old boy were
Junk food bill makes no sense
Dawgnet - The sale of operating rights to seven major ports on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts has Washington in a frenzy. The news that these operating rights would be going to a company partially state-owned by the United Arab Emirates outraged both parties in
Light rail seeks out fare plans
AZCentral.com - Confused passengers are to mass transit what clots are to arteries. They fumble for change or jam their tickets in turnstiles. Lines of frustrated patrons fume as they miss their light-rail trains. They can even delay the trains, throwing a system
Lalu unveils populist railway budget
Silicon India - NEW DELHI: Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav today unveiled a surplus railway budget, without increasing second-class passenger fares and decreasing AC fares, diesel and freight rates. He announced 18 percent reduction in AC first-class and 10
DVDs top McDonald s
Video Business - FEB. 24 | Following a successful limited test, McDonald s is set to sell DVDs in all of its U.S. markets with Redbox vending machines. Buena Vista Home Entertainment s Lady and the Tramp will be offered first on Feb. 28 in St. Louis, Baltimore
21 workers win cruise, thanks to company’s fitness challenge
Oakland Press - INDEPENDENCE TWP. - Mark Wayne is footing the $50,000 bill to take 21 of his employees on a tropical cruise - not just because he’s a good soul. “It’s a great way to spend dollars because we’re accomplishing something more long-lasting than the
Op-Ed Contributor: Eating for Credit
New York Times - IT’S shocking that because of the rise in Type 2 diabetes experts say that the children we’re raising now will probably die younger than their parents the result of a disease that is largely preventable by diet and exercise. But in public schools
Transit district releases goals, accomplishments
Coast News - OCEANSIDE Record ridership, reduced bus emissions and plans for the future Sprinter light rail line are just a few of the accomplishments and goals presented in an update of the North County Transit District. The Report to the Community 2006