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"Hooterville" used to be the wholesome pastoral town depicted in the 1965-71 TV series Green Acres. Among Hooterville’s citizens were quirky farmers holding bent pitchforks and general store owners who were also the town postmaster, justice of the peace, and publisher of the local newspaper.

You can change the amount of stress you feel.

It took more than ten hours, but a Springfield Township teenager now has a new heart.

Alcohol and drug use can progress into abuse and even addiction so insidiously that sometimes people do not realize that it has become a problem for them and those...

Newly unsealed documents shed light on why F.B.I. anthrax investigators spent years pursuing the wrong man.

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Although head trauma is a common injury seen in young children, U.S. doctors report on two recent cases of skull fracture with a surprising cause -- hair beads.

Steelscape Inc. laid off 28 salaried and hourly workers this week, a 10 percent reduction in the workforce at the Port of Kalama plant, the company announced Friday.

Family and friends have rallied around the family of an 11-year-old Minden boy who was critically injured Saturday while woodcutting with his father and a family friend.

A FATHER-OF-TWO died four months after the dumper truck he was driving overturned in Lees. Alphonsus Healey (62), known as Frank, was taken to the Royal Oldham Hospital with head injuries following the accident in Athens Way on August 1, 2006.

JANET'S INDECENCY CASE APPEALED TO SUPREME COURT: FCC says appellate court was wrong to throw out $550,000 fine. *The Federal Communications Commission is appealing its Janet Jackson indecency lawsuit to the U.S. Supreme Court, claiming a previous appeals ruling that tossed the case was wrong.