The city council turned down a $7,000 proposal to place a banner on a city water tower in honor of Comedy Central comedian Daniel Tosh, who graduated from Astronaut High in 1993.
Federal health officials are unveiling Thursday a $54 million national media campaign to get smokers to quit and prevent anyone else, especially children, from starting.
Under a state law taking effect Wednesday, eligible women won't be able to get care at Planned Parenthood clinics which treat about 44% of the program's patients or other facilities with ties to abortion providers, meaning those women will have to find new health-care providers.
After complaints that buffoonish characters with names like Lead Bottom ("not enough exercise"), Snacker ("too much fatty, processed food") and Stinkbomb ("bad hygiene") stigmatized overweight children, Disney has closed the exhibit indefinitely.
Alzheimer's, which is a form of dementia that causes progressive loss of intellectual and social skills, is the only disease among the top killers for which there is no prevention, cure or treatment that will slow its progression.
Three people were killed when a helicopter on its way to retrieve a heart for transplant crashed in northern Florida, leaving the patient to wait for another organ to become available.